Weekly Seminar: Colin Sullivan, “Eliciting Preferences over Life and Death: Experimental Evidence from Organ Transplantation”, Thursday, November 17, 2022

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.

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.