Alumni Profiles

Natalia Shestakova is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. She joined the PhD program at CERGE-EI in 2005, after having completed her BA degree in Economics at Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia. She defended her thesis at CERGE-EI in December 2011, titled "Boundedly Rational Consumers and Complex Pricing Schemes". She was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University in the fall of 2010. She was offered a position at the University of Vienna in early 2011 and currently teaches there.

Her primary research interests are Behavioral Economics, Contract Theory and Experimental Economics, and her most recent working papers (both in the CERGE-EI working paper series) are "Overcoming Consumer Biases in the Choice of Pricing Schemes: A Lab Experiment" and "Pricing-Scheme Choice: How Process Affects Outcome".