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Hi, this is Ali 👋

I am an experimental economist working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse.

My research is focused on cooperation, specifically on reciprocity and conditional cooperation. A particular application of this literature that I am interested in is social production goods such as open-source software, wikis, public guides, and so on.

For my research, I use methods from microeconomics, game theory, behavioral and experimental economics, agent-based modeling, and social choice theory.

I am also interested in software development related to experimental social sciences and data analysis.

Some tools that I made or contributed to

zBrac: a tool for the well-known behavioral experiment software z-Tree, which helps you conduct multilanguage experiments. We built it with Python and Qt5, together with Anna Schroeter.
choicepy: A python package for a social choice theory simulations tool for Python. It has very few features yet. Made together with Annika Hennes. We also used it for our research paper "Wisdom of crowds and voting."
matchgreek: A tool for LaTeX that tells you which greek symbols you already used and which are still available.
flyCSV: This tiny R package allows you to look at your data frames as CSV files on the fly.
Qualtrics IBAN Checker: Qualtrics adaptation of a simple JavaScript IBAN validator.

Some courses/documentations with public repositories

oTree Community Book (currently oTre version 3): This is an open-documentation project I am planning for the behavioral experiment software oTree. At the moment repository contains my notes of the oTree course that I have given at the Max Planck Institute.
oTree Crash Course: Materials from the workshop I gave at CEREB, Erfurt. oTree versions 5+
Games and Agents - An introduction to ABM using Python: Materials from the workshop I gave at Leiden University.
Introduction to R for Mathematics: This is the repository of the crash course I gave on R as a part of the mathematics course at the University of Trento.
Introduction to ggplot2: This is the repository for 3 hours workshop on ggplot that I gave at the Judgment and Decision Making (JDMx) Workshop in 2019.