Hakan Ozyilmaz

Biography

Hakan Ozyilmaz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2022 under the supervision of Erik Eyster. He uses lab and field experiments to study how suboptimal decisions people make are related to cognitive factors such as attention, salience, and incorrect mental models.

Research

Hakan's research on household and development finance investigates why borrowers make their repayments suboptimally, what type of consumer protection policies are effective in restoring rational choice, and why unbanked consumers and merchants fail to adopt digital wallets in a developing country context. In another line of theory-oriented research, Hakan tests how people with misspecified mental models learn their environment and identifies mental accounting from choice data using revealed preference methods