Mike Shor: Vita

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As of August 2011

Academic Positions

  • University of Connecticut
    Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, 2011-present
  • Vanderbilt University
    Assistant Professor, Owen Graduate School of Management, 2001-2011

Education

  • Rutgers University
    Ph.D. Economics, 2001
    M.A. Economics, 1997
  • University of Virginia
    B.A. Economics & Foreign Affairs, 1994

Research Interests

  • Auction theory
  • Experimental economics
  • Industrial organization & antitrust

Publications

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  • Age Effects And Heuristics In Decision Making, with Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, and Sudipta Sarangi, Review of Economics and Statistics (2011, forthcoming)
  • Social Sharing Of Information Goods: Implications For Pricing And Profits, with Michael Galbreth and Bikram Ghosh, Marketing Science (2011, fortchoming)
  • On The Competitive Effects Of Bidding Syndicates, with Vlad Mares, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2011, forthcoming)
  • Decision-Making Strategies And Performance Among Seniors, with Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, and Sudipta Sarangi, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2011, forthcoming)
  • Behavioral Antitrust And Merger Control, with Gregory Werden and Luke Froeb, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2011, Vol. 167, No. 1, pp. 126-142)
  • The Impact Of Malicious Agents On The Enterprise Software Industry, with Michael Galbreth, MIS Quarterly (2010, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 595-612)
  • Decentralization, Transfer Pricing, And Tacit Collusion, with Hui Chen, Contemporary Accounting Research (2009, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 581-604)
  • Industry Concentration In Common Value Auctions: Theory And Evidence, with Vlad Mares, Economic Theory (2008, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 37-56)
  • The Physician-Patient Relationship: The Impact Of Patient-Obtained Medical Information, with Bin Xie and David Dilts, Health Economics (2006, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 813-833)
  • Price Discrimination Through Online Couponing: Impact On Purchase Intention And Profitability, with Richard Oliver, Journal of Economic Psychology (2006, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 423-440)
  • Auction Models, with Luke Froeb, in John D. Harkrider, ed., Econometrics: Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues (2005, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, pp. 225-246)
  • A Game Theoretic Model Of E-Marketplace Participation Growth, with Michael Galbreth, Sal March, and Gary Scudder, Journal of Management Information Systems (2005, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 295-320)
  • An Experiment On Learning With Limited Information: Nonconvergence, Experimentation Cascades, And The Advantage Of Being Slow, with Eric Friedman, Scott Shenker, and Barry Sopher, Games and Economic Behavior (2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 325-352)
  • Induced Over-Benefiting And Under-Benefiting On The Web: Inequity Effects On Feelings And Motivations With Behavioral Implications For Consumption Behavior, with Richard Oliver and Simon Tidd, Motivation and Emotion (2004, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 85-106)
  • Digital Redemption Of Coupons: Satisfying And Dissatisfying Effects Of Promotion Codes, with Richard Oliver and Simon Tidd, Journal of Product & Brand Management (2003, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 121-134)

Working Papers

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  • Auditor Preference, with Karl Hackenbrack (2011)
  • Free-Riding And Performance In Collaborative And Non-Collaborative Groups, with Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sarah Marx Quintanar, and Sudipta Sarangi (2011)
  • Rethinking The Fairness Hypothesis: Procedural Justice In Simple Bargaining Games (2009)
  • An Experiment On Strategic Capacity Reduction (2008)
  • Mergers In Auctions With An Incumbent Advantage, with Luke Froeb and Steven Tschantz (2008)
  • Information Concentration In Common Value Environments, with Vlad Mares (2008)
  • Investing In Forecast Collaboration, with Mumin Kurtulus and Beril Toktay (2008)
  • A Laboratory Test Of Auctions With Negative Externalities, with Aniruddha Bagchi (2008)
  • Learning To Respond: The Use Of Heuristics In Dynamic Games (2004)
In progress:
  • Choice Overload In Medical Decision-Making, with Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, and Sudipta Sarangi
  • Learning Backward Induction, with Bill Neilson and Michael Price
  • Raising The Stakes Without Breaking The Bank, with Tamara Trafton
  • Experiments On Bargaining Games With A Pivotal Player, with Luke Froeb
  • An Experiment On Mergers In Affiliated Value Auctions, with Vlad Mares

Grants

  • Decision-making with too Many Options, 2008-2011 ($363,722)
    P.I.: Mikhael Shor (Co-PIs: Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi)
    National Institutes of Health (1R21AG030184, priority score 129, 4.1%)
  • Research development grant, 2005 ($5,000)
    Sloan Center for Internet Retailing

Presentations

  • Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory, Newport Beach, CA, 2010
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2009
  • Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Ohio State, Columbus, OH, 2008
  • International Industrial Organization Conference, Arlington, VA, 2008
  • Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, 2007
  • Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, 2006
  • Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, 2005
  • Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
  • Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille, France, 2004
  • Sloan Center for Internet Retailing Inaugural Conference, Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, 2003
  • INFORMS Conference on Pricing Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2002
  • Southern Economic Association Conference, Tampa, FL, 2001
  • NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2001
  • First World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Bilbao, Spain, 2000
  • International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, 2000
  • Economic Science Association, New York, NY, 2000

Teaching

  • Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 2000-2011
    Game Theory & Business Strategy, MBA elective (4.6/5)
    Pricing Strategies, MBA elective (4.6/5)
    Strategies for Network Economies, MBA elective (4.8/5)
    Game Theory & Strategic Thinking, Executive Seminars (4.3/5)
  • Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 1996-2000
    Industrial Organization, undergraduate economics (4.7/5)
    Law and Economics, undergraduate economics (4.6/5)

Refereeing

Ad Hoc Reviewer for
  • National Science Foundation
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • American Economic Review
  • Economic Inquiry
  • European Economic Review
  • Experimental Economics
  • Games and Economic Behavior
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  • Journal of Economic Education
  • Journal of Health Economics
  • Journal of Industrial Economics
  • Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
  • Marketing Science
  • Production and Operations Management
  • RAND Journal of Economics
  • Scandinavian Journal of Economics
  • Theory and Decision

Honors

  • Two time winner of the James A. Webb Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008, 2010), Vanderbilt University, awarded annually to one faculty member by the MBA class
    Finalist, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011
  • Creator, GameTheory.net, online resources for teaching and learning game theory
    Top 5 Mathematics Web Sites, Scientific American, 2003
    "A mixture of serious learning resources and fun," Science, 2002
  • Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, Vanderbilt University, 2002
  • Sidney Simon Outstanding Teacher Award, Rutgers University, 1999
  • Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1995-1999
  • Peter Asch Memorial Award, Rutgers University, 1999, For an outstanding dissertation in the field of applied microeconomics
  • Sidney Brown Prize in Economics, Rutgers University, 1997, For outstanding performance in graduate studies

Professional Service

  • Vanderbilt University
    Junior faculty recruitment committee
    Honor Council advisor
    Committee on Instruction
  • Game Theory Society
    Co-editor, Society Bulletin and web site, 2003-2008

Student Advising

  • Tamara Trafton, Ph.D., Economics, May 2010 (committee member)
  • Osayi Ovbiosa-Akinbosoye, Ph.D., Economics, May 2009 (committee member)
  • Robert Hammond, Ph.D., Economics, December 2008 (committee member)
  • Aleksandr Vashchilko, Ph.D., Economics, August 2008 (committee member)
  • Nathan Goates, Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, May 2008 (committee member)
  • Aniruddha Bagchi, Ph.D., Economics, August 2006 (committee member)
  • Yih-ming Lin, Ph.D., Economics, August 2005 (committee member)
  • Bin Xie, Ph.D., Management of Technology, May 2005 (committee member)
  • Ricardo Unger, Ph.D., Economics, August 2003 (committee member)