Colin Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Purdue University. He uses experiments to study labor, healthcare, and other matching markets, with a focus on eliciting preferences through incentive design. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Weekly Seminar: Erkut Ozbay, “The Thrill of Gradual Learning”, Thursday, November 3, 2022
Erkut Y. Ozbay is a Professor of Economics, and the Director of Experimental Economics Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2007. His research is in decision theory and experimental economics. He is interested in understanding and predicting human behavior by introducing theoretical models, conducting laboratory and online experiments, and analyzing the existing data with machine learning tools |
Weekly Seminar: Eric Spurlino Rationally Inattentive and Strategically (un)Sophisticated: Theory and Experiment, Thursday, October 20, 2022
Eric Spurlino is a PhD candidate at New York University studying experimental economics and microeconomic theory. His recent work studies costly information acquisition in strategic settings, and the integration of theories of costly information and costly strategic reasoning. He also has recent work on charitable giving, and the seeking for or avoidance of information in such settings.
Weekly Seminar: William Zame, “Do Decision Makers Have Subjective Probabilities? An Experimental Test”, Thursday, October 6, 2022
William Zame is the Jack Hirshleifer Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics at UCLA. He was previously Professor of Economics at The Johns Hopkins University and Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has published widely in Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, and Machine Learning.
Weekly Seminar: Alistair Wilson, “Predicting Multiplayer Coordination in Repeated Games: Some Theory, Some Lab, Some AIs, Thursday, September 22, 2022
Alistair Wilson is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD. from New York University in 2011, where his work focuses on developing and testing economic theory through field data and laboratory experiments. Recent work has focused on methodological tools, in understanding and predicting long-run interactions, and in understanding how behavior and other features within a market may affect designed institutions efficacy.
Weekly Seminar: Collin Raymond, “Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision”, Thursday, September 8, 2022
Collin Raymond is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Business Economics at Cornell University. He conducts research on how emotions affect decision-making, the sources and implications of overconfidence, and how boundedly rational agents respond to complex environments. His work uses theory, lab experiments and field data to formalize and test models at the intersection of psychology and economics.
Weekly Seminar: Sally Sadoff, “Earnings, Parenthood and Gender Differences in Choice of Educational Field”, Thursday, May 5, 2022
Sally Sadoff is an Associate Professor of Economics and Strategic Management at the UC San Diego Rady School of Management. Her research in applied microeconomics is focused on behavioral economics, experimental economics, education and health. Prior to coming to the Rady School, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.
Weekly Seminar: Andreas Blume, “Mediated Talk: An Experiment”, Thursday, April 28, 2022
Andreas Blume joined the Eller College of Management in 2012. Prior to joining Eller, he taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California-San Diego in 1989. His current research focus is on using game theoretic and experimental methods to study strategic communication with imperfectly shared languages, through noisy channels, with costly messages and on organizational coordination in environments with limited or no communication.
Weekly Seminar: Yucheng Liang, “The Inference-Forecast Gap in Belief-Updating”, Thursday, April 21, 2022
Yucheng Liang is an assistant professor at CMU. Much of his research uses experiments to study biases in information processing and their economic implications. Yucheng studied at Peking University and Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he spent a year (remotely) at briq Institute before joining CMU.
Weekly Seminar: Eugenio Proto, “Reverse Bayesianism Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events”, Thursday, April 14, 2022
Eugenio Proto is Alec Cairncross Professor of Applied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, and Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo. He earned his PhD in Economics at ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles in 2004. Previously he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Eugenio’s recent research interests are on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, with focus on Intelligence, Personality and Psychological wellbeing. He has published in leading general economic journals, like the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics Studies and in leading general scientific journals like the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science and Nature Human Behaviour. His work has been featured in several main international newspapers and magazines. He is currently academic editor of PLOSONE and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.