- aksoyb3@rpi.edu
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5182763925
- 0000-0003-0658-0440
About
I am an experimental economist. My research is mainly focused on identity economics, social preferences, and discrimination. I am also interested in understanding human interaction with technology and technology’s impacts on economic outcomes. At RPI, I teach Behavioral Financial Economics and Experimental Economics. In my Behavioral Financial Economics course, we discuss emotional and cognitive biases and how they impact our financial and economic decisions. In my Experimental Economics course, students learn about experimental methods that we use in economics (and other related social sciences). Students also get the opportunity to put their knowledge in practice by running their own experiment in class.
I received my PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University in 2019, my MS in Economics in 2011 from the University of Southampton in the U.K., and my BA in Economics in 2010 from Ankara University in Turkey.
Research
Teaching
At RPI, I teach Behavioral Financial Economics and Experimental Economics. In my Behavioral Financial Economics course, we discuss emotional and cognitive biases and how they impact our financial and economic decisions. In my Experimental Economics course, students learn about experimental methods that we use in economics (and other related social sciences). Students also get the opportunity to put their knowledge in practice by running their own experiment in class.
- Behavioral Financial Economics (Spring)
- Experimental Economics (Fall & Spring)
Publications
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Aksoy Billur and Silvana Krasteva. "When Does Less Information Translate into More Giving to Public Goods?" Experimental Economics 23 (2020): 1148-1177.
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Aksoy Billur and Marco Palma. "The Effects of Scarcity on In-Group Favoritism and Cheating.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 165 (2019): 100-117. Media: The Eagle San Antonio Express News, Houston Chronicle, ScienceDaily
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Aksoy, Billur, Haley Harwell, Ada Kovaliukaite, and Catherine Eckel. “Measuring Trust: A Reinvestigation.” Southern Economic Journal 84.4 (2018): 992-1000.
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Aksoy, Billur, Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson. "Can I Rely on You?” Games 9.4 (2018): 81.
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Billur Aksoy has 4 indexed publications in the subjects of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Mathematics, Business, and Management and Accounting.