Lincoln College & Department of Economics, University of Oxford

H. Nur Ata-Nurcan

cebr research fellow at Lincoln College Postal address: Lincoln College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DR, United Kingdom E-mail: nur.ata@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Teaching associate at Department of Economics, University of Oxford Postal address: Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom E-mail: nur.ata@economics.ox.ac.uk

Short Bio

Nur Ata joined the Lincoln college in September 2007 as the cebr post-doctoral fellow in economics. Nur received her M.A. degree in economics from Bilkent University in Turkey and Master in Economic Analysis degree from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain. She holds a Ph.D. in economics degree from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Prior to joining Lincoln, she spent two years as a research fellow at the Finance and Consumption Programme of the European University Institute in Florence.

At Lincoln Nur teaches, microeconomics (prelims), macroeconomics and finance tutorials.

Research Interests

Her current research focuses on behavioural economics. In particular, she is interested in examining the role of self-control on consumer borrowing and repayment behaviour. She also has papers on the role of information risk in asset pricing and on the existence of competitive equilibrium under financial constraints and increasing returns.

Publications and Working Papers:

i. "Existence of Competitive Equilibrium under Financial Constraints and Increasing Returns", with Erdem Basci, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol 28 Issue 12, December 2004.

ii. "Consumer Installment Credit Under Time-Inconsistent Discounting" (2007) Pdf

iii. “ Self-control and debt: evidence from data on credit counseling”, with A Bicakova, (2008) Pdf

iv. “Why do consumers focus more on the monthly payments?” (2009) Pdf

 Work in Progress

The following papers are incomplete and need substantial revisions:

"The Probability of Informed Trading: Evidence from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange", 2005 with R.Vidova (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & European Investment Bank) and N. Milkova (Vienna Gradute School of Finance)

"Directed Technical Change and the Trends in the Gender Wage Gap", IDEA-UAB master thesis, 2002.

Recent conference presentations & invited talks

• Symposium organized by CCCS UK, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (2006),
• International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Economics, Malaga, Spain (2007),
• Behavioral Approaches to Consumption, Credit, and Asset Allocation conference, EUI, Florence, Italy, 25-26 May, 2007,
• 2nd Insolvency Service Research Conference, London, September 2007,
• Department of Economics seminar, University of Reading, February 2008 (invited),
• Microeconomics seminar series, CERGE-EI, Prague, March 2008 (invited),
• European Meeting of Financial Management Association (FMA), Prague, June 2008,
• 43^rd EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling (EWGFM) meeting, Cass Business School, City University London, September 2008,
• Credit Research Center seminars at Edinburgh University School of Management, October 2008 (invited),
• Department of Economics post-doc seminar series at University of Oxford, April 2009.

Co-organized the following workshops while at the Finance & Consumption Programme of Department of Economics at EUI, Florence:

– Finance and Consumption Programme workshop on “Consumption and Credit in Countries with Developing Credit Markets” (2006) (with Alena Bicakova and Burcu Duygan),

– Joint Finance and Consumption Programme and Center for Financial Studies workshop on "Behavioral Approaches to Consumption, Credit, and Asset Allocation" (2007) (with Michael Haliassos and Alena Bicakova).

Fellowships & Awards

· Recepient of the CSWEP Summer Economics Fellowship to spend the summer 2007 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (sponsored by National Science Foundation and American Economic Association).

· Research Fellow, European University Institute (2005-2007)

· Doctoral fellowship, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2000-2005)

· Royal Economics Society conference grant (2002)

· Teaching assistantship, Bilkent University (1998-2000)

Economic Consultancy

I also work as a senior economist (part time) at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (cebr). In cebr, I have been involved in the projects on evaluation of environmental and health policies and their implications for the competitiveness of different sectors of the economy. I also contribute to the regular publications on economic forecasts for the United Kingdom and other economies around the world.

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