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Curriculum Vitae |
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Brit
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Education |
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Ph.D. in Economics, December 2000, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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MS.c. in Economics (with honors), July 1997, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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Diploma (Diplom-Volkswirtin), July 1996, Humboldt University,
Berlin
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Academic Positions |
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● Professor of Experimental Economics, Department of
Economics, University of Birmingham, as of September 2011.
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Associate Professor in Economics at Texas A&M University, September
2009 - August 2011.
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Assistant Professor in Economics at Texas A&M University, July 2003 -
August 2009.
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Post-Doctoral Fellow with
Alvin Roth
at Harvard Business School, January 2001 - June 2003 (Lecturer at HBS from
July 2001 - May 2002).
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Visiting scholar, Technion, March - April 2000. |
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Professional Activities |
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● Co-Director of the Economic Research Laboratory (ERL), April
2009 - August 2011.
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Faculty Advisor of the
Texas A&M Economics Society, Fall 2007 - Spring 2010. |
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Publications |
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"Is Reputation Good
or Bad? An Experiment," with Rajiv Sarin, American Economic Review,
100, 2010, 2187 - 2204.
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"If you
were offered the Right of First Refusal, Should you Accept?
An Investigation of Contract Design," with
Alvin E. Roth, Games and Economic Behavior, 65, 2009, 176 -
204.
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"Simultaneous
versus Sequential Public Good Provision and the Role of Refunds - An Experimental Study," with
Jennifer Coats and Timothy Gronberg,
Journal of Public Economics, 93, 2009, 326 - 335. |
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● "The Two-Person Beauty Contest,"
with Rosemarie Nagel,
Games and Economic Behavior,
62 (1), 2008, pp. 93 - 99.
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"Overcoming the Winner's Curse: An Adaptive Learning
Perspective," with Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Journal of Behavioral Decision
Making, 21 (1), 2008, pp. 15 - 27. |
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"On
the Robustness of the Winner's Curse Phenomenon," with
Max Bazerman and
Yoella Bereby-Meyer,
Theory and Decision, 63 (4), 2007, pp. 389 - 418. |
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"Foregone with the
Wind: Indirect Payoff Information and its Implications for Choice," with Ido Erev and Eldad Yechiam, International Journal of Game
Theory, 34 (2), 2006, pp. 285 - 302. |
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"Cheap Talk, Information
and Coordination - Experimental Evidence," with
Gary Charness, Economics Letters, 83, 2004, pp. 383-389. |
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● "Overcoming
Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments," with Max Bazerman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Dolly Chugh,
Lorraine Idson
and Simone Moran, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17,
2004, pp. 159-172. |
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● "Teaching Auction Strategy using Experiments Administered via
the Internet," with John Asker, Carl N. McKinney, Muriel Niederle,
Alvin Roth and Georg Weizsaecker, Journal of Economic Education, 35(4),
2004, pp. 330-342.
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● "How Manipulable are Fairness Perceptions? The Effect
of Additional Alternatives
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Research
on Economic Inequality,
11, 2004, pp. 43 - 53. |
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● "Reinforcement
and Directional Learning in the Ultimatum Game with Responder Competition", Experimental
Economics, 6(2), 2003, pp. 141-158. |
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● "Happiness
and Relative Payoffs - An Experimental Study", with
Gary Charness, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45(3)
, 2001, pp. 301-328. |
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Working Papers |
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"An Experiment on
Case Based Decision Making," with Rajiv Sarin and Elizabeth
Watson, revision requested
from Games and Economic Behavior.
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"Unraveling in Two-Person
Guessing Games," with Rosemarie Nagel. |
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"Choosing
between Lotteries: Perfect Coordination without Communication,"
with Yoella Bereby-Meyer
and Simone Moran, Lorraine Idson and Dolly Chugh. |
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● "An Experimental Investigation of Asymmetric
Information in Common-Value Auctions," with Lucas Rentschler and Rajiv Sarin |
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● "Asymmetric
Information in Contests: Theory and Experiments,"
with Lucas Rentschler and Rajiv Sarin |
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Work in Progress |
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"In Search of Bad
Reputation - A Sequence of Experiments," with Rajiv Sarin.
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"Reputation and
Advice: Political Correctness in the Laboratory," with Rajiv Sarin. |
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"The Demand for Expressing Emotions," with
Kristian Lopez. |
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"Monetary Policy in the Laboratory," with
John Duffy and Daniela Puzello. |
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● "Risk
Averse or Impatient? An Experimental Study of Buy-it-now Auctions,"
with Yu Zhang |
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"Merging Reinforcement and Directional Learning - A Generalized
Model" |
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Grants and Awards |
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2010 - 2012: NSF grant SES
#1025034
"Expressing
Emotions in Economics,''
(Role: PI, $171,327)
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2007 - 2010: NSF grant
SES
#0649218
"An
Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Reputations,"
($220,000, Co-PI: Rajiv Sarin) |
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Fall 2008: Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), Texas A&M
University System. |
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2007 - 2008: Stipendiary Faculty Fellow, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for
Humanities Research, Texas A&M University (Project: "The Impact of Trust")
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2001: Economic Science Association Dissertation Award
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2001: Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF Small Grants Program)
for the project "What Does It Take to Overcome the Winner's Curse?
The Effect of Variation in the Environment and Feedback" (with
Yoella Bereby-Meyer)
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1999: Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF Small Grants Program)
for the project "Relative Payoffs and Happiness - An Experimental
Study " (with Gary Charness)
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1996: Prize for the best Diploma (graduation) at the Humboldt University
at Berlin by the ``Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft der Humboldt-Universitaet
zu Berlin, e.V.''
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Conferences |
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● September 2009: European ESA Meeting, Innsbruck (paper
presented:
The Demand for Expressing
Emotions)
●February 2009: FSU Workshop on Experimental Game Theory
(paper presented:
Reputation and Advice: Political
Correctness in the Laboratory)
● July 2008: Third World Congress of the Game Theory
Society, Evanston (paper presented:
Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment) ●
July 2008: Workshop on Similarity, Learning and Networks, University of
Alicante (paper presented: An Experiment on Case-Based Decision Making) ● June
2008: North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Pittsburgh
(paper presented:
Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
● February 2008: Santa Barbara Conference on Experimental
and Behavioral Economics (paper presented: An Experiment on Case-Based
Decision Making) ● October 2007: ESA Meeting in Tucson (paper presented:
An Experiment on Case-Based Decision Making) ● August 2007: First Singapore Economic Theory Workshop
(paper presented:
Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
● June 2007: Economic Science Association Meeting in Rome
(paper presented: An Experiment on Case-Based Decision Making) ●
December 2006:
South and South East Asia Econometric Society Meeting, Chennai (paper presented: Is
Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
● September 2006: ESA Meetings, Tucson (paper presented: Is
Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
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July 2006:
Stonybrook Game Theory Conference (paper presented: Is
Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
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November 2005: SEA Meetings, Washington, D.C. (paper
presented: Is
Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
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August 2005: SITE, Stanford (paper presented: Is
Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment)
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November 2004: ESA meetings Tucson (paper presented: If you were offered the Right of First
Refusal, would you accept? )
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August 2002:
Workshop
on
Coordination,
Iterated Dominance and Bounded Rationality, Barcelona (paper presented:
Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence from Two-Person
Beauty Contest Games )●
August 2002:
Academy of Management, Denver
(paper presented: Overcoming the Winner's Curse: An Adaptive
Learning Perspective
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July 2002:
Economic Science Association (ESA) Meeting, Boston
(paper presented: On the Robustness of the Winner's Curse Phenomenon
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March 2002: Public Choice and ESA meeting in San Diego (paper presented: If you were offered the Right of First
Refusal, would you accept? )●
November 2001: Annual Meeting of the Society of Judgment
and Decision Making in Orlando (paper presented:
Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence from
Two-Person Beauty Contest Games)●
July 2001: Far Eastern
Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kobe (paper presented:
Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence from
Two-Person Beauty Contest Games)●
June 2001: ESA Meeting, Barcelona (paper presented: Learning to overcome the Winner's Curse)●
November 2000: GEW Meeting, Burg Warberg (paper
presented: Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence
from Two-Person Beauty Contest Games )
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November 2000: 20th Arne Ryde Symposium, Lund
(paper presented: Foregone with the Wind)●
October 2000: ESA European Meeting, Amsterdam
(paper presented: Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence
from Two-Person Beauty Contest Games)●
August 2000: Econometric Society World Congress in Seattle (paper presented: Happiness and Relative Payoffs - An Experimental
Study )●
July 2000: First World Congress of the Game Theory Society,
Bilbao (paper presented: Cheap Talk, Information, and
Coordination - Experimental Evidence)●
June 2000: ESA Meeting in New York (paper presented: Cheap Talk, Information, and Coordination - Experimental Evidence
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April 2000: Third Experimental Workshop, Technion, Haifa (paper presented: Merging Reinforcement and Directional
Learning - Experimental Evidence and a Generalized Model)●
October 1999: ESA European Meeting, Grenoble
(paper presented: Competition, Aspiration and Learning in the
Ultimatum Game: An Experimental Investigation)●
August/September 1999: ESEM and EEA, Santiago de Compostela, (paper presented: Competition, Aspiration and Learning
in the Ultimatum Game: An Experimental Investigation)●
August 1999: RSF Conference on Behavioral Economics,
Berkeley (paper presented: Relative Payoffs
and Happiness - An Experimental Study)●
April 1999: 3rd Young Economist Meeting, Amsterdam (paper presented: Competition, Aspiration and Learning
in the Ultimatum Game: An Experimental Investigation)●
April 1998: ESF Conference on Migration and Development,
Espinho (poster presented: Grants and their Implication
on Migration)
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Invited Seminars |
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February 2011: University of Birmingham
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December 2010: University of Maryland
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April 2009: UT Pan American
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February 2009: Laval University, Quebec
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May 2008: Technical University Berlin
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April 2008: New York University
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March 2008: University of Arizona
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November 2007: University of Alabama
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March 2007:
University of Pittsburgh
● November
2006: Anthropology Department, Texas A&M University
● June 2006:
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
● June 2006:
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
● January 2006: UT Dallas
● December 2005: Victoria University, Wellington
● June 2005: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
● March 2004: Queen Mary, University of London
● October 2004: University of Houston
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March 2003: Texas A&M University
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February 2003: Columbia University
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February 2003: Stockholm School of Economics
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December 2002: Harvard Law School
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December 2001: Erfurt University
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November 2001:
Texas A&M University
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October 2001: University
of Arizona
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October 2000: Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna,
Austria
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August 2000: University of Mannheim, Germany
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April 2000: University of Kiel, Germany
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Professional Activities |
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Member:
American
Economic Association, Economic Science Association, Gesellschaft für
experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, The Econometric Society.
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Refereeing:
American Economic Review, American
Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economica,
Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, Economics of Governance,
Experimental Economics, Games and
Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of
Economic Behavior & Organizations, Journal of Economic Education,
Journal of Law,
Economics, and Organization,
Journal of Political Economy, Labour Economics, National Science Foundation, Scandinavian Journal of Economics,
Spanish Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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Teaching and Working
Experience |
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Spring 2011: Econ 440, Texas
A&M University
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Fall 2009: Econ 440, Texas
A&M University
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Spring 2009: Econ 440, Texas A&M University
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Fall 2008: Econ 440 and 425, Texas A&M University
● Spring 2008: Econ 440 ●
Fall 2007: Econ 440 and 655, Texas A&M University
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Spring 2007:
Econ 440, Texas A&M University
● Fall 2006:
Econ 425 and 440, Texas A&M University
● Spring 2006:
Econ 425, Texas A&M University
● Fall 2005:
Econ 425 and 440, Texas A&M University
● Spring 2005:
Econ 425, Texas A&M University ●
Fall 2004: Econ 425 and 440, Texas A&M University
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Spring 2004: Econ 425 and Econ 323, Texas A&M University
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Fall 2003: Econ 425, Texas A&M University
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Winter 2002: MBA course Negotiation (core curriculum) at HBS
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September 2000: Instructor of group sessions (and member
of the organizing committee) at the Barcelona Bellaterra Experimental
Economics Summer School (BEaST) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona
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1999 - 2000: Instructor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona (Economic Theory II, 2nd year undergraduate micro course)
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1996 - 1999: Teaching assistant at the Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona (assisted graduate courses include: Econometrics
I, Applied Statistics) ●
1997 - 1999: Reviewer for Insights Consulting, Paris.
(reviewing working papers on industrial organization and public
economics)
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1993 - 1996: Research assistant at the Deutsche Handelsbank,
Berlin, Germany
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