Ala Avoyan

Ala Avoyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University Bloomington, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. Her research bridges microeconomic theory, experimental economics, and behavioral economics, focusing on attention allocation in strategic environments and communication mechanisms in games.

• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
• M.A. in Economics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
• Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, 2018

Her experimental work explores how attention influences decision-making in games, with recent studies on market design for digital platforms, information disclosure in crowdfunding, and teamwork under time constraints. She has published in top journals such as the American Economic Review and Management Science.

Current projects include strategic uncertainty in sequential games and a meta-study of minimum effort game research. She also collaborates on interdisciplinary experiments involving communication, attention, and commitment mechanisms.