Jason Shachat

Email: bizjs@nus.edu.sg

 

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Education

 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1991-1996

            Degrees: M.A. in Economics 1993, Ph.D. in Economics 1996

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 1984-1988

            Degree: B.S. in Mathematical Economics 1988

 

Full Time Professional Appointments

 

Full Professor, WISE Xiamen University 2009-

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore joint appointment with the Departments of Economics and Business Policy, 2003-2006, full time with Department of Business Policy 2006-2009

Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 2001– 2003

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego 1996–2001

 

Visiting Appointments

 

Visiting Research Scientist, IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratories, Summer and Fall 2000

Visiting Research Scientist, HP Laboratories, Summer 1998 and 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, GRID, Cachon, France October 1997

 

Research Grants and Awards

 

Elmer J. Brown memorial scholarship and the Vincent F. Boland Memorial Award for outstanding graduate student paper (1994) - US$ 16,000

Russell Sage Foundation Roundtable in Behavioral Economics, research grant for “Mixed Strategy Play and the Minimax Hypothesis” (1995) US$ 6,500

University of Arizona Graduate College Competitive Research Grant recipient for “Mixed Strategy Play and the Minimax Hypothesis” (1995) US$ 3,000

National Science Foundation, Investigations of Behavior in Strategic Environments with Unique Mixed Strategy Solutions, (1998) $48,000

Hewlett Packard Laboratories, “Econometric Models of Markets with Product Differentiation.” (1999) US$ 78,461

National Science Foundation, Instrumentation Grant for Experimental Economics Laboratory, with Vincent Crawford (1998-1999) US$ 58,000

Hellman Faculty Fellow, University of California, San Diego (2000-2001) US$ 12,000

TESS/NSF grant “Game Responses as Survey Instruments: Measuring of the Constituents of Social Capital,” with Daniel Houser and Jonathan Leland (2003) US$ 20,000

FRC Research Grant NUS “Game Responses as Survey Instruments: Measuring of the Constituents of Social Capital,” (2003-2006) S$ 18,000

FRC Research Grant NUS “Marketing and Procuring Goods through Exchanges and Auctions” (2003-2006) S$46,000

National University of Singapore Departmental Research Award: Department of Business Policy (2006)

Papers in International Refereed Journals

 

“An Experimental Investigation of the Incentives to Form Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives,” with E. Hoffman and G. Libecap , Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 42, 287-304 (1998)

 

“On The Irrelevance of Risk Attitudes in Repeated Two-Outcome Games,” with John Wooders, Games and Economic Behavior. 34, 342-363 (2001)

 

“An Experiment to Evaluate Bayesian Learning of Nash Equilibrium Play,” with J. Cox and M. Walker, Games and Economic Behavior. 34, 11-33 (2001)

 

“Mixed Strategy Play and the Minimax Hypothesis,” Journal of Economic Theory. 104, 189-226 (2002)

 

Hide and Seek in Arizona, with R.W. Rosenthal and Mark Walker, International Journal of Game Theory. 32, 273-293 (2003)

 

“Trust, the Internet, and the Digital Divide,” with H. Huang, C. Keser, and J. Leland, IBM Systems Journal. 42, 507-518 (2003)

 

“Unobserved Heterogeneity and equilibrium: An Experimental Study of Bayesian and Adaptive Learning in Normal Form Games,” with M. Walker, Journal of Economic Theory. 14, 179-373 (2004)

 

“Do We Detect and Exploit Mixed Strategy Play by Opponents?” with J.T. Swarthout, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. 59, 359-373 (2004)

 

“Information in a Catastrophe Reinsurance Market,” with Anthony Westerling, Managerial and Decision Economics, 27, 477-495 (2006)

 

“Procurement Auctions for Differentiated Goods,” with J.T. Swarthout Decision Analysis, Forthcoming.

 

Chapters in Books

 

“Measuring Trust and Trustworthiness,” with Leland, L. and Houser, D., In:Hoe Hmann, H. and F. Walter, ed/ Trust and Entrepreneurship: A West –East Perspective. Cheltenham and Lyme: Edward Elgar, (2005)

 

 

 

Working Papers

 

“Learning about Learning in Games through Experimental Control of Strategic Interdependence,” with J.T. Swarthout, (2003, Revised 2008)

 

 “Individual Rationality and Market Efficiency,” with Steven Gjerstad, (Revised 2008)

 

“How Do Subjects Play Against a Nash Opponent in Games Which Have Mixed Strategy Equilibrium?” with J.T. Swarthout (2007, Revised 2008)

 

Procuring commodities using request for quotes or reverse auctions. (2009, revise and resubmit Marketing Science)

 

Professional Service

 

Journal Referee:

 

Games and Economic Behavior (average three papers a year (1996-2008)), Econometrica (1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008), National Science Foundation (1997-2004), Journal of Mathematical Psychology (1995), Southern Economic Journal (2000, 2002, 2003), Journal of Economic Theory (1998-2002, 2004, 2006), Economic Theory (1997, 2000, 2002-2006), Informs (2002), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2004), Management Science (1998, 2002-2005, 2007), IBM Systems Journal (2002), Experimental Economics (2004-2005), Journal of Economic Psychology (2005-2006), American Economic Review (2006, 2008), Decision Analysis (2009), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2009)

 

Co-Organizer: NSF Decentralization Conference, Yorktown Heights New York (2000)