Alpaslan Akay is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) where he also completed his Ph.D. in March 2008. His main research interests are Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Economics of Happiness, Migration, Microeconometrics and Monte Carlo Simulations.
He joined IZA as a Research Associate in September 2008 and became a Senior Research Associate in September 2011. After moving back to Sweden in September 2013, he remains affiliated with IZA as a Research Fellow. He is currently visiting IZA regularly as a Visiting Research Fellow.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4354
revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 428 - 435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4307
revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4225
revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3943
revised version published as 'Finite-sample comparison of alternative methods for estimating dynamic panel data models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 27 (7), 1189-1204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3812
published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215
