Conference Presentations

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• 2024: “Optimal Design of Bad Recommendations,” 2024 Informs Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 20-23, 2024.
• 2024: Keynote Speaker. “Dishonesty in Financial Advice and Promises”, 2024 Accounting Behavior and Organizations Research Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 17-18, 2024.
• 2024: Keynote Speaker. “Conjoint Experiments, Bayesian estimation and machine learning for Uncovering Complex Other-Regarding Preferences,” Computational and Experimental Economics Workship, Barcelona School of Economics, June 6-7, 2024.
• 2024: Optimizing Human Capital Signals in Online Contract Markets, DOI: 13140/RG.2.2.35527.51369, ISMS Marketing Science Conference 2024 -- Sydney Australia, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381829438_OPTIMIZING_HUMAN_CAPITAL_SIGNALS_IN_ONLINE_CONTRACT_MARKETS?showFulltext=1&linkId=66807a0d0a25e27fbc170702
• 2024: “Efficiency and Equilibrium Selection in Arbitrated Bargaining,” Conference in Memory of Professor Amnon Rapoport, University of California—Riverside, February 2-3, 2024
• 2021: Award Recipient. “Social Norms and the Price of Zero,” published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology (28, no. , 180-191), received Honorable Mention for the 2021 JCP Park Best Paper Award, Society of Consumer Psychology Winter Meeting, March 4-6, 2021
• 2021: Organizer. The Third virtual Experimental Finance Workshop, Jan 13 2021
• 2020: Organizer. The First and Second virtual Experimental Finance Workshop, Nov 11 and 13, 2020
• 2018: Featured speaker. The 36th Conference on Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE-Conference), organized by Christoph Engel and Urs Schweizer, Florence, Italy, June 6-9, On the importance of relative payoffs in two-sided one-to-one matching
• 2018: Plenary address: The Inaugural Wuhan Cherry Blossom Workshop in Experimental Economics, China, March 18, On the importance of relative payoffs and other regarding preferences in two-sided one-to-one matching.

·       2017: Invited speaker. Informs Annual Meeting, Houston, October 23, The Reference Price Effect of Reserve and Bin Prices

·       2017: Marketing Science Conference. Los Angeles, June 9. On the Reference Price Effect of Reserve and Buy It Now Prices.

·       2016: Keynote address. 8^th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management, Nanjing, China, December 17, 2016. Experiments on Participative Pricing Mechanisms

·       2016: Economic Science Association Meetings, Jerusalem, July 7-11, The effect of involvement on fundraising: a charity field experiment.

·       2016: Invited speaker.  Choice Symposium, Lake Louise, AB, May 14-May 16, Beyond Posted Prices: Customer-Driven Pricing Mechanisms

·        2016: Organizer, UTD-FORMS tenth annual conference, 2016

·       2015: Award Recipient. Informs, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 1. Award recipient. Best Working Paper Award at Behavioral Operations and Management Section, Informs “Bargaining Process and Channel Efficiency,” with E. Katok and V. Pavlov.

·        2015: Economic Science Association, Dallas, Texas, October 23, “The Effect of Third Party Intervention in the Investment Game”

·        2014: Invited Speaker. Marketing in Israel Conference, Beer Sheva/Rehovot, Israel, Dec 30-31, “A Study of Bidding Behavior in All-pay Auctions.”

·        2012: Invited Session chair: Marketing Science Conference, Boston, June 7-9, “Differentiated Bidders and Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions.” Co-chaired special invited session “Biding Strategies and Design in Quality Auctions.”

·        2011: Marketing Science Conference, Houston, June 9-11, “When and How Do Coordinating Contracts Improve Channel Efficiency?”

·        2010: Award Recipient: WIMI Conference: Cross-Platform and Multi-Channel Consumer Behavior, Dec 9-10, 2010, Wharton, “Seller Strategy in B2B Multi-channels: Auctions, Buy-Now Pricing and Price Discovery.”

·        2010: Session Organizer: Southern Economic Association Conference, Atlanta GA, Nov 20-22, 2010. Session Organizer and presented “Asset Market Prices and Strategies in Virtual World Experiments.”

·        2010: Economic Science Association Meetings, November 11-13, 2010, Tucson, “The Loser’s Bliss.”

·        2010 Marketing Science Conference, Cologne, June 16-19, 2010, “Between-Game Rule Learning in Dissimilar Symmetric Normal-Form Games” and “Tiers in one-sided matching markets.”

·        2009 Marketing Science Conf., Ann Arbor, June 4-6, 2009, “The Impact of Online Auction Duration”

·        2009: Organizer: UTD- Frontiers of Research in Marketing Science, Dallas, Feb 19-21, 2009.

·        2008 Economic Science Association European Meetings, Lyon, France, Sep 11-14, 2008, “An Experimental Investigation of Buyer Determined Procurement Auctions”

·        3^rd Annual Behavioral Operations Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, July 23-25, 2008, “Choice between investments with different multipliers and social distance: A virtual world experiment.”

·        2008 Marketing Science conf, Vancouver, Jun 12-14, 2008, “Bidding Strategies in Buyer Determined Online Auctions” and “An Experimental Investigation of Buyer Determined Procurement Auctions”

·        2008 Winter Marketing Educators' Conference, Austin, Feb 15-18, 2008, “Two-stage Lotteries and the Value of Unresolved Uncertainty in Multiple Contacts”

·        Informs, Seattle, Nov 4-7, 07, “When Zero Search Cost is too High.”

·        Economic Science Association, Tucson, Oct 18–21, 07. “Individual Choice among Charity Auctions.”

·        2007 Second Annual Behavioral Operations conference July 23-24 Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota. “Infrastructure for Laboratory Experiments”

·        2007 Stony Brook Workshop on Experimental Economics July 14 - 16, 2007. “Learning”

·        2007 Seventh Triennial Invitational Choice Symposium, Wharton, Jun 13-17, “Competition Between Auctions.” Session organizer.

·        2006 Economic Science Association North American Meetings, Tucson, Arizona, September 28-October 1. “Risk aversion, under-diversification and the role of recency and probability matching.”

·        2006 Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy, UCBerkeley, Jun 26-June 30, “Segmentation and Competition: An Application to Rebates”

·        2006 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Pittsburgh, June 8-June 10, Two-Stage Prize Promotions and the Value of Unresolved Uncertainty

·        2006 Coordination Success Conference in Honor of Raymond C. Battalio, Texas A&M, March 31-April 2, 2006. Presented “Hierarchical Thinking and Learning in Rank Order Contest Games.”

·        2005 SEA Meetings, Washington, D.C., Nov 18-20, 2005, organized “Learning” session and presented “Learning in Two-Stage Lotteries.”

·        2005 ESA Meetings in Tucson, Sept 30-Oct 2, “The Buyer-Determined Multi-Attribute Auction.”

·        2005 AMA Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference, July 29-August 1, Panel Member in special sessions titled “Online Reverse Auctions: New Technology and/or Old Relationships”

·        2005 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, June 16-18, “The Buyer-Determined Multi-Attribute Auction- An Experimental Investigation”

·        2005 AEA Annual Meetings, Jan 7-10, “Two-Stage Prize Promotion Lotteries and the Timing of Prizes”

·        2004 North American Economic Science Association Meeting, Nov 5-Nov 7, 2004. “Loss Aversion and Under-Hedging”

·        2004 ISBM Academic Conference in Boston, August 5-6, “Who Benefits From Reverse Auctions?”

·        2004 Marketing Science Conference, June 24-26, Rotterdam: “The Role of Seller Rating in Online Auctions”

·        2004 American Marketing Association Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference, Feb 6-9, 2004, Scottsdale, AZ: “Two-stage Prize Promotion Lotteries and the Timing of Prizes.”

·        Matching Markets Workshop, Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, Stanford University, August 14-Aug 16, 2003: “Equilibrium Selection in Repeated B2B Matching Markets” 

·        25^th Marketing Science Conference 2003, University of Maryland, College Park, June 12-15, 2003: “The Effect of Variability in Marketing Mix Variables on Consumer Brand Choice.”

·        American Marketing Association Winter Meetings, Orlando, Florida, February 14-16, 2003: “Manipulating Prize Variability in Under-the-cap Promotions”

·        International Economic Science Association Meetings, Boston, June 27-30, 2002: “The Economics of Small Decisions.”

·        Economic Science Association Meetings, Tucson, Nov 1-4, 2001: “Unraveling in Decentralized Labor Markets with Incrementally Revealed Quality Information”

·        Marketing Science, July 5-8, 2001, Wiesbaden, Germany: “Under-the-cap Promotions: A Customer Learning Approach.”

·        Workshop on Learning and Bounded Rationality, June 14-18, 2001, Florence, Italy: “Applications to Reinforcement Learning”

·        Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Meetings, March 9-11, 2001, San Antonio

·        ASSA and Econometric Society Meetings, Jan 5-7, 2001, New Orleans.

·        Economic Science Association Summer Meetings, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2000, Tucson. 

·        Marketing Science Conference, June 23-25, 2000 Los Angeles, “Variable Pricing: A Customer Learning Perspective” 

·        Economic Science Association Summer Meetings, June 16-18, 2000, New York. 

·        Experimental Economics 3^rd International Workshop, April 10, 2000, Haifa, Israel. 

·        Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Meetings, March 10-12, 2000, Charleston.

·        Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Meetings, March 12, 1999, New Orleans.

·        Economic Science Association North American Meetings, October 15-18, 1998, Tucson.

·        1998: North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, June 25-28, 1998, Montreal, “An Empirical Model of Equilibrium Selection based on Player Heterogeneity”

·        1998: Public Choice Society and Economic Science Meetings, March 13-15, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, “An Empirical Model of Equilibrium Selection based on Player Heterogeneity”

·        1998: Texas Econometrics Camp III, Feb 28 – Mar 1, 1998, Lago Vista, Texas, “An Empirical Model of Equilibrium Selection based on Player Heterogeneity”

·        1997: Lonestars Conference, Sept. 27-28, 1997, College Station, Texas, "Testing Modes in the Population Distribution of Beliefs in Experimental Games"

·        1997: Conference on Clustering and Discrimination sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Rice university, May 11-14, 1997, Houston, Texas, "Testing Modes in the Population Distribution of Beliefs in Experimental Games"