Alexander L. Brown

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics, Texas A&M University

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

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:

Brown, Alexander L., Colin F. Camerer, and Dan Lovallo. “To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Box Office." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4(2): 1-28, May 2012.
(journal version)   
(free access version)    (original working paper (2009))
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