University of Houston

Cahit Guven

RESEARCH

Research Fields: 

·         Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics

·         Behavioral Economics

·         Applied Macroeconomics

Papers:

Working Papers

·         Guven Cahit (2007). “Reversing the Question. Does Happiness Affect Individual  Economic Behavior: Evidence from Surveys from Netherlands and Germany,” Job Market Paper download PDF

·         Guven Cahit, Bent E. Sorensen (2006). “Keeping up with the Joneses: Real or Perceived? download PDF  (click here to download it from Inter-American Development Bank )

Work in Progress

·         Guven Cahit, Dietrich Vollrath (2006). “Financial Integration: The Role of Tradable and Non-Tradable Goods,   download PDF

·         Guven Cahit (2007). “The Impact of Happiness on Individual Health Outcomes :Evidence from Individual Surveys,”

·         Guven Cahit (2007). “The Impact of Happiness on Social Capital: Individual and Regional Analyses”

·         Guven Cahit (2007). “Subjective Well-Being and The Aspiration Theory: Worries, Present or Expectations?”

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Southern Economic Association Conference, November 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana (Presenter and Discussant)
  • 6th Tilburg Symposium on Psychology and Economics: Games and Decisions August 2007, Tilburg University, Netherlands (Presenter and Discussant)
  • International Conference: Policies for Happiness , June 2007, Siena, Italy (Presenter and Discussant)
  • Empirical Models in Social Sciences Conference, April 2007, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey (Presenter)
  • Macroeconomics Seminar Series, April 2007, Sam Houston State University, Texas (Presenter)
  • 7th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, March 2007, University of Missouri, Columbia (Presenter)
  • Texas Econometrics Camp XI, February 2007, Houston (Presenter)
  • Southern Economic Association Conference, November 2006, Charleston, South Carolina (Presenter and Discussant)