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Troy, NY
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billuraksoy@gmail.com
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5182763925
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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
I teach Behavioral Financial Economics, Experimental Economics, and Behavioral & Experimental Economics I (graduate level only).
In my Behavioral Financial Economics course, students learn about emotional and cognitive biases and how these affect financial and economic decisions, challenging traditional economic assumptions.
In my Experimental Economics course, students explore state-of-the-art experimental methods in economics and related social sciences for testing economic theories and understanding behavior. The course is communication-intensive, culminating in student-led experiments, data analysis, a written research report, and formal presentations of findings.
At the graduate level, Behavioral & Experimental Economics I equips students with advanced tools to design, conduct, and analyze experiments in economics and related social sciences. The course emphasizes choice behavior, field and survey experiments, and econometric techniques commonly used with experimental data, preparing students to engage in high-quality, independent research.
- ECON 6800: Behavioral & Experimental Economics I (Fall)
- ECON 4340 / ECON 6340 Behavioral Financial Economics (Spring)
- ECON 4360 / ECON 6360 Experimental Economics (Fall & Spring)
Publications
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Billur Aksoy has 9 indexed publications in the subjects of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences.