# overview
Dr. Brown's research focuses on the two specialized fields: cognitive biases in judgment and decision-making, and game theory, both of which he often--though not exclusively--examines through the lens of experimental economics. His work necessarily lends itself to interdisciplinary applications and has appeared in top journals across business, economics and general science including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Nature Human Behavior. He has been a part of several sources of external funding, totaling roughly $3.3 million, from sources such as the Federal Highway Administration and National Science Foundation. He served as associate editor at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization from 2014-2020 and as a visiting scholar to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2017-2020.

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Director of Graduate Program (Ph.D.) Department of Economics

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California Institute of Technology - (Pasadena, California, United States)

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The Ohio State University - (Columbus, Ohio, United States)

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California Institute of Technology - (Pasadena, California, United States)

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LEARNING AND VISCERAL TEMPTATION IN DYNAMIC SAVING EXPERIMENTS

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Is There a Better Way to Elicit Valuations than the BDM?

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Behavior in a simplified stock market: the status quo bias, the disposition effect and the ostrich effect

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COLLUSION FACILITATING AND COLLUSION BREAKING POWER OF SIMULTANEOUS ASCENDING AND DESCENDING PRICE AUCTIONS

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Influence of Message-Based Nudges on Travel Choices on Express Lanes

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To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Movie Box Office

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Search deterrence in experimental consumer goods markets

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Student Loans and the CARD Act Campus Ban

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Empirical Bias of Extreme-Price Auctions: Experimental Evidence

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Empirical Bias of Extreme-Price Auctions: Analysis

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Social distance and quality ratings in charity choice

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Preferences for the Resolution of Risk and Ambiguity

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Do Individuals Have Preferences Used in Macro-Finance Models? An Experimental Investigation

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations

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When less information is good enough: experiments with global stag hunt games

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Resource re-allocation capabilities in internal capital markets: The value of overcoming inertia

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Small Victories: Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Task Completion and Debt Repayment

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Estimating Structural Models of Equilibrium and Cognitive Hierarchy Thinking in the Field: The Case of Withheld Movie Critic Reviews

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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Behavioral models of managerial decision-making

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Does anonymity affect the willingness to accept and willingness to pay gap? A generalization of Plott and Zeiler

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Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion

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The Effects of Relative Size, Profitability, and Growth on Corporate Capital Allocations

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General Economic Principles of Bargaining and Trade: Evidence From 2,000 Classroom Experiments

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Beyond Income: Dynamic Consumer Financial Vulnerability

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Incentive Mechanisms for AI: Theory and Evidence

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Factors influencing traveler use of transit before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic

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Aggregate and individual effects of information in a coordination (traffic) game

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Asymmetric Information Undermines Coasian Bargaining in Common (Oil) Pool Resources

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Breaking-up should not be hard to do! Designing contracts to avoid wars of attrition

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The refinement of Nash equilibrium based on equilibrium models of imperfectly rational behavior

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Testing the simplicity of strategy-proof mechanisms

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The costs and benefits of symmetry in common-ownership allocation problems

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Using Behavioral Economics to Identify Potential Managed Lane Users

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Benign vs. Self-Serving Information Reduction: Do Individuals Understand the Difference?

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Collaborative Research: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss-Aversion

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Evolutionary Preference Revelation Dynamics under School Choice Mechanisms

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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SCC-PG: Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)

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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Economics; 4228 TAMU

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Chen, Sihong (2011-08). Risk Perception and Willingness to Pay for Removing Arsenic in Drinking Water. Master's Thesis.

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Wang, Xiaoyuan (2014-08). Essays on Consumer Behavior and Demand Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Stephenson, Daniel Graydon (2017-05). Adaptive Behavior in Continuous Time. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Williams, Jacob Forrest (2014-08). Using Laboratory Experiments to Better Understand Voluntary Contributions. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Viriyaripart, Ajalavat (2015-08). Experimental Tests of Global Games Theory: Coordination, Bargaining and Entry Games. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Kovaliukaite, Ada (2018-05). The Role of Strategic Beliefs in Understanding Strategic, Pro-Social and Socially Complementary Behavior. Doctoral Dissertation.