Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2008 (expected)
B.S. in Economics, Duke University, 2002
Research Interests
Behavioral Economics (Intertemporal Choice, Reference Dependence)
Experimental Economics (Salience and Decision-Making, Auctions)
Consumer Judgment and Decision Making (Heuristics, Attention)
Job Market Paper
The Long-Run Effects of Penalizing Customers: Evidence from the Video-Rental Market, with Devin G. Pope [abstract] [pdf]
Research Papers
You Are What You Eat: Evidence from Candy Sales at a Video Store [abstract] [pdf]
Assigned Values in First-Price Sealed Bid Auctions, with Barbara A. Mellers [abstract] [pdf]
Poker Superstars: Skill or Luck? with Devin G. Pope [abstract] [pdf]
Competitive Balance and Free Agency in Major League Baseball, American Economist, Fall 2003 [abstract] [pdf]
Preliminary Research
Temporal Arbitrage: Evidence from Bobblehead Dolls on eBay
Punishment-Induced Deterrence and Overcorrection, with Devin G. Pope
Promoting to Hyperbolic Discounters -- A Video-Rental Field Experiment
Taste Whetting in Video Rental, with Jeffrey Holman
References and Coauthors
Matthew Rabin (Dissertation Advisor)
- Jeffrey Holman
- Wasim Azhar (Teaching Reference)
Teaching
Haas School of Business
- Pricing, MBA and Evening & Weekend MBA, Spring & Fall 2007
- Behavioral Finance, MFE and MBA, Spring 2007 & 2008
- Global Marketing Strategies, MBA and EWMBA, Spring 2008
- Introduction to Finance, Undergraduate, Summer 2006
- Pricing, MBA and Evening & Weekend MBA, Spring & Fall 2007
Department of Economics
- Introduction to Economics, Undergraduate, Spring 2006
- Intermediate Microeconomics, Undergraduate, Fall 2003 & 2004
- Intermediate Macroeconomics, Undergraduate, Spring 2004
- Introduction to Economics, Undergraduate, Spring 2006
Interests
Golf, poker, bridge, baseball, juggling, horse racing, and Duke Basketball