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• Curriculum Vitae

• Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Behavioral Consumer Finance.

• Game Theory, Behavioral Financial Economics, Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory.

• Brown, Alexander L., Taisuke Imai, Ferdinand Vieider, and Colin F. Camerer. "Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss-aversion." Journal of Economic Literature, 62(2): 485-516, June 2024.
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• Ashraf, Sruthi, Alexander L. Brown, Mark W. Burris and Valon Vitaku. "Aggregate and Individual Effects of Additional Information in a Coordination (Traffic) Game." Economic Inquiry, 61(4): 818-850, October 2023.
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• Salisbury, Linda Court, Gergana Y. Nenkov, Simon Blanchard, Ronald Paul Hill, Alexander L. Brown, and Kelly D. Martin. "Beyond Income: Dynamic Consumer Financial Vulnerability." Journal of Marketing, 87(5), 657-678, September 2023.
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• Burris, Mark W., Alexander L. Brown, Hardik Gupta, Jasper Wang, Alberto M. Figueroa-Medina, Carlos A. del Valle-Gonzalez, and Adel F. del Valle-Perez. "Factors Influencing Taveler Use of Transit before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Public Transportation, 25, 100058, 2023.
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• Ashraf, Sruthi, Mark W. Burris, Alexander L. Brown, and Valon Vitaku. "Using Behavioral Economics to Identify Potential Managed Lane Users." Transportation Research Record, 2676(8): 144-158, August 2022.
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• Brown, Alexander L., and Matt Van Essen. "Breaking-Up Should Not be Hard to Do! Designing Contracts to Avoid Wars of Attrition." European Economic Review, 143: 104059, April 2022.
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• Stephenson, Daniel G. and Alexander L. Brown. "Playing the Field in All-pay Auctions." Experimental Economics, 24(2):489-514, June 2021.
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• Lin, Po-Hsuan, Alexander L. Brown, Taisuke Imai, Joseph Yao-yi Wang, Stephanie W. Wang, and Colin F. Camerer. "General Economic Principles of Bargaining and Trade: Evidence from 2,000 Classroom Experiments." Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 917-927, September 2020.
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• Lovallo, Dan, Alexander L. Brown, David J. Teece, and David Bardolet. "Resource Re-allocation Capabilities in Internal Capital Markets: The Value of Overcoming Inertia." Strategic Management Journal, 41(8):1365-1380, August 2020.
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• Brown, Alexander L., Jonathan Meer, and J. Forrest Williams. "Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations." Management Science, 65(4):1455-1468, April 2019.
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• Van Huyck, John, Ajalavat Viriyavipart and Alexander L. Brown. "When Less Information Is Good Enough: Experiments with Global Stag Hunt Games." Experimental Economics, 21(3): 527-548, September 2018.
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• Brown, Alexander L., Ajalavat Viriyavipart, and Xiaoyuan Wang. "Search Deterrence in Experimental Consumer Goods Markets." European Economic Review, 104: 167-184, May 2018.
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Paul J. Healy. "Separated Decisions." European Economic Review, 101: 20-34, January 2018.
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• Bardolet, David, Alexander L. Brown and Dan Lovallo. "The Effects of Relative Size, Profitability, and Growth on Corporate Capital Allocations." Journal of Management, 43(8): 2469–2496, November 2017.
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• Brown, Alexander L., Jonathan Meer, and J. Forrest Williams. "Social Distance and Quality Ratings in Charity Choice." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66: 9-15, February 2017.
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Rodrigo A. Velez. "The Costs and Benefits of Symmetry in Common-Ownership Allocation Problems." Games and Economic Behavior, 96: 115-131, March 2016.
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Joanna Lahey. "Small Victories: Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Task Completion and Debt Repayment." Journal of Marketing Research, 52(6): 768-783, December 2015.
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• Featured on Bangor Daily News, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Dallas Morning News, The Economist, FiveThirtyEight, Huffington Post, Science Daily, TheStreet, USA Today and WalletHub.
  


• Brown, Alexander L. and Gregory Cohen. "Does Anonymity Affect the Willingness To Accept and Willingness To Pay Gap? A Generalization of Plott and Zeiler." Experimental Economics, 18(2): 173-184, June 2015.
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Hwagyun Kim. "Do Individuals Have Preferences Used in Macro-Finance Models? An Experimental Investigation." Management Science, 60(4): 939-958, April 2014.
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• 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." Management Science, 59(3): 733-747, March 2013.
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• Goldfarb, Avi 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." Marketing Letters, 23(2): 405-421, June 2012.
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• 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): 1-26, May 2012.
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• Featured on Conversable Economist, Freakanomics and Chronicle of Higher Education. (Credit to Jonathan Meer and Rassul Karabalin for the first and latter two, respectively.)
  


• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Daniel G. Stephenson. "Experiments in Continuous Time." Handbook of Experimental Game Theory. C. M. Capra, R Croson, T Rosenblatt, and M.A. Rigdon (eds.), 95-124, 2020.
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• Brown, Alexander L. "Asymmetric Information." The New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. D. J. Teece and M. Augier (eds.), 2015.
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• Brown, Alexander L. "Investigating Psychology-Influenced Models in Lab, Field and Theory," PhD Dissertation, California Institute of Technology, 2008.
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• Brown, Alexander L., Catherine C. Eckel and Steven N. Wiggins. "Asymmetric Information Undermines Coasian Bargaining in Common (Oil) Pool Resources."
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Daniel Fragiadakis. "Benign vs. Self-Serving Information Reduction: Do Individuals Understand the Difference?"
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• Brown, Alexander L., Daniel J. Grodzicki, and Paolina Medina. "When Nudges Spill Over: Student Loan Use under the CARD Act."
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• Brown, Alexander L., Huiyi Guo, and Hyundam Je. "Preferences for the Resolution of Risk and Ambiguity."
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• Brown, Alexander L., Jinliang Liu, and Michael Tsoi. "Is There a Better Way to Elicit Valuations than the BDM?"
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• Brown, Alexander L., Daniel G. Stephenson and Rodrigo A. Velez. "Testing the Simplicity of Strategy-proof Mechanisms."
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• Brown, Alexander L. and Rodrigo A. Velez. "Empirical Bias of Extreme-Price Auctions: Experimental Evidence."
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• Stephenson, Daniel G. and Alexander L. Brown. "Characterizing persistent disequilibrium dynamics: Imitation or optimization?"
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• Valdez Gonzalez, Natalia I., Alexander L. Brown and Marco A. Palma. "Social-Benefits Stigma and Subsequent Competitiveness."
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• Rodrigo A. Velez and Alexander L. Brown. "Empirical Bias of Extreme-Price Auctions: Analysis."
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• Rodrigo A. Velez and Alexander L. Brown. "Empirical Equilibrium."
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• Rodrigo A. Velez and Alexander L. Brown. "Empirical Strategy-Proofness."
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• Valon Vitaku, Alexander L. Brown Marco A. Palma. "School Choice: Biometrically-Informed Mechanism Design."
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• Beckett, Dustin, and Alexander L. Brown. "Artifactual Social Learning: An Alternative Form of Disclosure."
• Brown, Alexander L., Ceyhun Eksin, Hyundam Je, and Martial Ndeffo Mbah. "Preferences over Ambiguity in Vaccination Decisions."
• Brown, Alexander L., Rupert Freeman, and Korok Ray. "Incentive Mechanisms for AI: Theory and Evidence."
• Brown, Alexander L., Daniel J. Grodzicki, and Simon Blanchard. "Understanding the Debt Snowball: Finding Markers of Task-Completion Behavior in Student Loan Repayment."
• Brown, Alexander L., Colin Hagerty, and Jinliang Liu "ALERT: Disclosure of Statistical Distributions of Power Outages for Public Consumption."
• Brown, Alexander L., Ethan Park, and Rodrigo A. Velez. "Direct Revelation with Lying Aversion."
• Brown, Alexander L., Matt Van Essen , and John Wooders. "Peer Evaluations: Exploiting Truthtelling as a Social Norm (the Power of Truthiness)."

• Behavioral Financial Economics (ECON 618)
• Microeconomic Theory I (ECON 629)
• Experimental Economics (ECON 655)

• Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 202)
• Economics of Decision-Making and Strategy (ECON 449)
• Games and Economic Behavior (ECON 459)

• Jinliang Liu (2024)
• Hyundam Je (2023)
• Valon Vitaku (2023)
• Ada Kovaliukaite (2018)
• Daniel Stephenson (2017)
• Jose Castillo Garcia (2015)
• Ajalavat Viriyavipart (2015)
• J. Forrest Williams (2014)
• Xiaoyuan Wang (2014)