Yusufcan Masatlioglu

Yusufcan Masatlioglu is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He has developed a profound and important research agenda at the intersection of behavioral economics and decision theory. His work provided several theoretical foundations for Reference Dependent Choice, Time Preferences, Limited Attention, Behavioral Social Influence, Random Choice, Choice Overload, Categorization, and Willpower. He has published his work regularly in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Political Economy. He received two National Science Foundation grants for his works on revealing inattention and random attention.

He held positions as assistant and associate professor positions at the economics department of the University of Michigan from 2005 until 2016. after obtaining a PhD in Economics at New York University.