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Contact Info:
3056 Allen Building
Department of Economics
Texas A&M University, 4228 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4228
(979) 862-8084
abrown (at) econmail
(period) tamu (period) edu
Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory.
Teaching Interests: Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics.
Classes Taught:
Econ 629-Microeconmic Theory I, Econ
202-Principles of Microeconomics,
Econ 449-Economics of Decision-Making and Strategy (all
course materials found on elearning).
Publications:
(journal
version)
Featured in blogs by
Freakanomics and
Chronicle of Higher Education. (Credit to Rassul Karabalin for
discovering them.)
Brown, Alexander L.,
Charles R. Plott,
and Heidi J. Sullivan. “Collusion Facilitating and Collusion Breaking Power of
Simultaneous Ascending Price and Descending Price Auctions." Economic Inquiry, 47(3): 395-424, July 2009.
(journal
version) (free access version)
Brown, Alexander L., Zhikang
Eric Chua, and
Colin F.
Camerer. “Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments." Quarterly Journal of Economics,
124(1): 197-231, February 2009.
(journal
version) (free access version)
(original working paper)
Brown, Alexander L. and
John H. Kagel. “Behavior in a Simplified Stock Market: The Status Quo Bias, the
Disposition Effect and the Ostrich Effect." Annals of
Finance, 5(1): 1-14,
January 2009.
(journal
version) (free access version)
Brown, Alexander L. “Investigating Psychology-Influenced
Models in Lab, Field and Theory," PhD Dissertation, California Institute
of Technology, 2008.
(abstract)
Working Papers:
Brown, Alexander L.,
Colin F. Camerer,
and Dan Lovallo. “Estimating Structural Models of Limited Strategic Thinking in the Field: The
Case of Missing Movie Critic Reviews.”
(current version)
Avi Goldfarb, Teck-Hua Ho, Wilfred Amaldoss, Alexander L. Brown, Yan Chen, Tony Haitao Cui, Alberto Galasso, Tanjim Hossain, Ming Hsu, Noah Lim, Mo Xiao, and Botao Yang. “Behavioral Models of Managerial Decision-Making.”
Brown, Alexander L. and Hwagyun Kim. “The Interrelation of Uncertainty Resolution, Risk Preference, and Intertemporal Substitutability: Theory and Experiment.”
Brown, Alexander L. and Rodrigo A. Velez. “An Analysis of an Envy-Free Auction.”
Brown, Alexander L. and Colin F. Camerer. “Living in the Moment: Myopic Loss Aversion in Dynamic Decisions.”
Brown, Alexander L. “Asymmetric Information.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. D. J. Teece and M. Augier (eds.).
Research in Progress:
Brown, Alexander L. and Joanna Lahey. “Small Victories: Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Savings and Debt Reduction.”
Brown, Alexander L., Jonathan Meer, and Jacob Williams. “Warm Glow when Working for Charity.”
Brown, Alexander L. “Myopic Loss Aversion in Experimental Earnings Reports.”
Brown, Alexander L. “Endogenous Time Preferences and Personal Rules.”
Last revised: February 12, 2012