Education
BS, Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
MA, Economics, Pennsylvania State University
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Positions Held
At Haas since 2002
2009 - present, Gary & Sherron Kalbach Chair in Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business
2006 - 2009, Gary & Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business Administration, Haas School of Business
2002 - 2006, Professor, Haas School of Business
1996 - 2002, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, New York University
1998, Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania
1996 - 2002, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
1989 - 1992, Senior Accountant, Bankruptcy and Forensic Accounting Group, Grant Thornton
External Service and Assignments
- Co-editor, B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics
- Principal, Nash-equilibrium.com
- Associate Editor, Management Science
- Editorial Board, California Management Review
- Panelist, National Science Foundation E-Business Initiative
- Certified Public Accountant
- Refereeing: American Economics Review, Econometrica, Experimental Economics, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, European Journal of Political Economy, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies
Current Research and Interests
Selected Papers and Publications
- "Information Aggregation in Polls," with Phillip Stocken. American Economic Review.
- "...Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non)Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay," with Tanjim Hossain. Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 6: no. 2 (2006): Article 3.
- "Are Two Heads Better than One? An Experimental Analysis of Group versus Individual Decision Making," with Alan Blinder). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 37, no. 5 (2005): 789-811.
- "The Art of Conversation," with Vijay Krishna. Journal of Economic Theory 117 (2004): 147-179.
- "Price Dispersion in the Large and in the Small: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site," with Michael Baye and Patrick Scholten. Journal of Industrial Economics 52, no. 4 (December 2004): 463-96. (Best article award, 2004.)
- "An Analysis of Stock Recommendations," with Phillip Stocken. RAND Journal of Economics 34, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 183-203.
Teaching
Honors and Awards
- Judge Business School Fellow at Cambridge, 2008
- Visiting Fellow Commoner Award, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2007
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
- W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, 2001-2002
- National Science Foundation Research Grant, 2004-2007, 2001-2004, 1997-1999
- Sloan Fellowship, 2000-2002
- Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant, 1997-1999
- Cyril E. Black Preceptorship, 1996-1998
- Pennsylvania State University Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1995

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