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Dr. Carlos Oyarzun serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Texas A&M University in 2007 and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Universidad de Concepción in 1995. His academic career at UQ includes receiving the New Staff Research Start-Up Fund for the project 'Decision making with little information: experimental evidence' from 2012 to 2013. Oyarzun has demonstrated significant contributions to graduate supervision, serving as principal advisor for completed PhD theses such as 'Essays on Credence Goods Markets: Reputation and Second Opinions' in 2024, and associate advisor for theses on antisocial behaviour in 2025 and social media-stock market interrelationships in 2023. He currently supervises PhD research on blockchain-based decentralised energy markets as principal advisor and on eliciting incomplete and nontransitive preferences as associate advisor.
Oyarzun's research output features publications in prestigious journals, reflecting his expertise in microeconomic theory and experimental economics. Key works include 'Contagion management through information disclosure' (Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, with Jonas Hedlund and Allan Hernández-Chanto), 'Testing under information manipulation' (Economic Theory, 2023, with Silvia Martinez-Gorricho), 'Do regulations work? A comprehensive analysis of price limits and trading restrictions in experimental asset markets with deterministic and stochastic fundamental values' (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, with Zhengyang Bao, Kenan Kalaycı, and Andreas Leibbrandt), 'Response functions' (European Economic Review, 2017, with Adam Sanjurjo and Hien Nguyen), 'Imitation in heterogeneous populations' (Economic Theory, 2017, with Jonas Hedlund), 'Convergence in models with bounded expected relative hazard rates' (Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, with Johannes Ruf), 'A note on absolutely expedient learning rules' (Journal of Economic Theory, 2014), 'Learning and risk aversion' (Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, with Rajiv Sarin), and 'Monotone imitation' (Economic Theory, 2009, with Johannes Ruf). Additionally, he co-authored the public article 'How getting a second opinion can stop you being ripped off' in The Conversation (2023, with Metin Uyanik, Lana Friesen, and Priscilla Man), highlighting practical implications of his research on decision-making.