Ted Turocy - Research and CV

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Positions held

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Texas A&M University , August 2001-present.
  Courses taught:
  Fundamental Mathematics for Economists (PhD)
  Principles of Economics: Microeconomics (Honors BS/BA)
  Intermediate Microeconomics (BS/BA)
  Economics of Decision-Making and Strategy (BS/BA)

• Lecturer, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg Graduate School of Management , Fall 1998-99, Fall 1999-2000, Winter 2000-01.
  Courses taught:
  Accelerated Mathematical Methods for Management (MBA)

Fields of interest

Economic science; game theory, microeconomic theory, experimental economics, computational economics.

Doctoral studies

Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, August 2001.
Dissertation: " Computation and Robustness in Sealed-Bid Auctions "
Committee Chair: Mark Satterthwaite

Predoctoral studies

B.S. with Honors, Engineering & Applied Science/Economics (double major), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, 1994.

Awards

• Society for Computational Economics, Graduate Student Prize in Computational Economics, June 2001, for "Implications of Approximate Equilibrium Concepts in Sealed-Bid Auctions"

Publications

Original research

• "Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty." Forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.
• "Using Quantal Response to Compute Nash and Sequential Equilibria." Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Working Paper 2006-02. Current version dated November 10, 2006. Forthcoming, Economic Theory.
• "Covering Your Posterior: Teaching Signaling Games Using Classroom Experiments." Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Working Paper 2006-03. Current version dated December 12, 2006. Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Education.
• "Towards a Black-Box Solver for Finite Games: Finding All Nash Equilibria with Gambit and PHCpack." Forthcoming, Proceedings of the IMA Software for Algebraic Geometry Workshop.
• "In Search of the Last-Ups Advantage in Baseball" Forthcoming, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.
• "On the Sufficiency of Transitive Preferences." Economics Bulletin, 4(22): 1-9, 2007.
• "Congestion Allocation Mechanisms for Distributed Networks: An Experimental Study," joint with Yan Chen and Laura Razzolini. Economic Theory 33(1): 121-143, 2007.
• "Framing the First-Price Auction," joint with Elizabeth Watson and Raymond C. Battalio. Experimental Economics 10 (1): 37-52, 2007.
• "A Dynamic Homotopy Interpretation of the Logistic Quantal Response Equilibrium Correspondence" . Games and Economic Behavior 51 (2): 243-263, 2005.
• "Offensive Performance, Omitted Variables, and the Value of Speed in Baseball" . Economics Letters 89 : 283-286, 2005.
• "Intertemporal Speculation Under Uncertain Future Demand: Experimental Results", joint with Charles R. Plott .  In Understanding Strategic Interaction: Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten , Springer, 1997.

Survey articles

• "Computing Equilibria in Finite Games". Forthcoming in A Positive Change: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings , Alt, Aldrich, and Lupia, editors, University of Michigan Press.
• "Game Theory", joint with Bernhard von Stengel (2002).  In Encyclopedia of Information Systems , Volume 2.  San Diego: Elsevier Science (USA), pages 403-420.

Computer software

• "Gambit: A System for Constructing and Analyzing Finite Games", joint with Richard D. McKelvey and Andrew M. McLennan.  Website at http://gambit.sourceforge.net

Typescripts

• " Reservation Values in Laboratory Auctions: Context and Bidding Behavior," joint with Elizabeth Watson . Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Working Paper 2006-03. Current version dated July 2007.
• "The Theory of Theft: An Inspection Game Model of the Stolen Base Play in Baseball" . Current version dated January 2005.

Presentations, referee experience

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