C.V.
OWEN POWELL
Email: opowell@gmail.com
Web: sites.google.com/site/opowell
Nationalities: Canadian; British.
Address: Klagenfurt, Austria.
EMPLOYMENT
2020 - , Frontend Developer, Alturos Destinations.
work on large web-based e-commerce platform and component library. Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Storybook, Git, Jira
2017 - 2020, Senior scientist, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
2011 - 2017, Senior scientist, University of Vienna.
2009 - 2011, Lecturer, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
2007 - 2009, Lecturer, Tilburg University.
EDUCATION
2006 - 2010, PhD Economics, Universiteit van Tilburg, Essays on Experimental Bubble Markets.
2005 - 2006, MPhil Economics, Universiteit van Tilburg.
2004 - 2005, MA Economics, University of Victoria, Applications of Reinforcement Learning Methods to Dynamic Economic Problems.
1998 - 2003, BSc Economics, University of Victoria, Spherical World.
RESEARCH
Interests: experimental finance; computational economics.
2019, Bubbles, experience and success (with D. Gladyrev and N. Shestakova), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
2019, Robustness of mispricing results in experimental asset markets (with N. Shestakova), working paper.
-, Can teaching social dilemmas increase cooperation? An experiment (with J. Martins and R. Fortmüller), Journal of Education for Business.
2016, Experimental asset markets: A survey of recent developments (with N. Shestakova), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
-, Numeraire independence and the measurement of mispricing in experimental markets, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
2014, The impact of asset repurchases and issues in an experimental market (with E. Haruvy and C. Noussair), Review of Finance.
2013, Measuring growth: including the value of non-tradable goods, working paper.
2011, Negative bubbles and the choice of numeraire.
2010, Peaks and valleys: Experimental asset markets with non-monotonic fundamentals (with C. Noussair), Journal of Economic Studies.
-, A comparison of two averaging techniques with an application to growth empirics (with J. Magnus and P. Prüfer), Journal of Econometrics.
-, Eye-tracking the market: subject focus in experimental bubble markets, working paper.
2006, Habits and the endowment effect.
2005, Applications of reinforcement learning to dynamic economic models.
2003, Economic geography: The second dimension.
PROGRAMMING
2019, Save or skip (browser extension)
Chrome extension that adds a "Forward" button to the browser, github.com/opowell/saveorskip, Vue.js, IndexedDB.
2019, Simulgames
Browser-based game engine, Typescript, Vue.js.
2018, jtree
Javascript Toolbox for Running Economics Experiments, opowell.github.io/jtree, Vue.js, node.js
2018, System upgrade for Columbia University, ORSEE.
2017, Save or skip (website)
Website for generating recommendations based on previous browser history, GWT: Java, GAE: Java, Google Cloud Datastore, jsoup, NoSQL.
2014, ewohn.at
Housing search engine, scraping data from various sources, GWT: Java, GAE: Java, jsoup, Google Cloud Datastore, NoSQL.
2013, ThisIsThatOf, tagsandlinks.appspot.com
Website for listing relationships between objects, GWT: Java, GAE Java, Google Cloud Datastore, NoSQL.
2013, Accounting system for VCEE
Created accounting system for tracking projects costs. Google Drive, Google Spreadsheets, Google Apps Scripts
2012, Vivilab
Website for running web-based economics experiments. Google Web Toolkit: Java, Google App Engine: Java, GWT Phonegap.
2011, Darwin
Website for running web-based double auction experiments, Google App Engine: Java, Google Web Toolkit: Java, Google Cloud.
2009, Installation of system for economics experiment registrations, ORSEE, HTML, PHP, MySQL.
2007, Model averaging toolbox, Matlab.
2005, Server for experiment signups, Java Servlets, HTML, Microsoft Access, SQL.
-, Reinforcement learning toolbox for applying reinforcement learning methods to dynamic economic problems, Matlab
2001-2002, Proformance Communications
Add features to website component system, Cold Fusion, HTML.
2000, University of Victoria
Create and deploy webpage for searching through library catalog, Java Servlets, HTML, Microsoft Access, SQL.
REFEREEING
American Economic Review
European Economic Review
Experimental Economics
International Game Theory Review
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of the Economic Science Association
Journal of Public Economic Theory
Review of Finance
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
PRESENTATIONS
2019, Economic Science Association (Vancouver)
-, Economic Science Association - Europe Meeting (Dijon)
2018, Western Economic Association International (Vancouver)
-, Vienna-Innsbruck Workshop (Innsbruck)
2017, Experimental Finance (Nice)
-, French Economic Association (Nice)
-, Economic Science Association - Europe Meeting (Vienna)
2016, Experimental Finance (Mannheim)
-, Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA), Castelló de la Plana
2015, Experimental Finance (Nijmegen)
-, ExperimetriX Workshop (Alicante)
-, ASSET (Granada)
2014, University of Vienna
-, LabSi Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Finance (Siena)
-, GfeW Tagung (Passau)
2013, Experimental Finance (Tilburg)
2012, Southern European Experimental Meeting (Lanzarote)
-, Universidad de Granada
-, Universität Innsbruck
2011, Canadian Economics Association (Ottawa)
-, University of Vienna
-, Florence Experimental Workshop
-, Experimental Finance (Innsbruck)
2010, Southern European Experimental Meeting (Marrakesh).
2009, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
-, DWI Berlin
-, Max Planck Institute (Jena)
-, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
-, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
-, Maastricht University
-, IMEBE (Granada)
2008, Alhambra Experimental Workshop (Granada)
-, ESA World Conference (Pasadena)
-, ENTER Jamboree (Madrid)
2006, CWI (Amsterdam)
2005, University of Victoria
2003, University of Victoria
AWARDS
2014, Graf Hardegg Foundation, 7.500 €.
2011, Graf Hardegg Foundation, 7.000 €.
, Econometric Studies, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Madrid Autonomous Community.
2010, Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Economic Studies (with C. Noussair).
2009, Research visit, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 5 months.
2008, Research visit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 5 months.
2006, Scholarship, Universiteit van Tilburg.
2002, Scholarship, University of Victoria.
1998, Scholarship, British Columbia Provincial Government.
TEACHING
Interests: Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Computational Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics.
2019, jtree (1 day), Masaryk University.
-, Programming economics experiments in oTree, Burgundy School of Business.
2018, LaTeX (1 day), Vienna University of Economics and Business.
2011, Intermediate Macroeconomics (B.A.), University of Victoria.
2010, Microeconomics (in Spanish, B.A.), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
2009, Microeconomics (in Spanish, B.A.), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
2008, Microeconomics (B.A.), Universiteit van Tilburg.
-, Mathematical Economics (B.A.), University of Victoria.
2007, Microeconomics (B.A.), Universiteit van Tilburg.
-, Mathematical Economics (B.A.), University of Victoria.
2006, Grader, Privatisation and Regulation (B.A.), Universiteit van Tilburg.
-, Mathematical Economics (B.Sc.), University of Victoria.
-, Teaching Asst., Pensions and Ageing (M.Sc.), Universiteit van Tilburg.
2005, Teaching Asst., Pensions and Ageing (M.Sc.), Universiteit van Tilburg.
-, Teaching Asst., Mathematical Economics (B.Sc.), University of Victoria.
2004, Teaching Asst., Computational Methods (B.Sc.), University of Victoria.
-, Teaching Asst., Mathematical Economics (B.Sc.), University of Victoria.
-, Grader, Property and Law (B.A.), University of Victoria.
-, Grader, Applied Econometrics (B.A.), University of Victoria.
THESIS SUPERVISION
2014, Dividend variation in experimental asset markets, M.Sc., L. Neuhofer, University of Vienna.
2012, Culture, institutions and cooperation, M.Sc., J. Rieff, University of Vienna.
2008, The air transportation network cost analysis for parcel delivery service, M.Sc., S. Chen, Universiteit van Tilburg.
2007, The European Union enlargement of 2004: An understanding of the economic growth of old and new members, M.Sc., M. Boukhari, Universiteit van Tilburg.
-, The influence of non-compete covenant laws on job turnover rates, M.Sc., B. Koster, Universiteit van Tilburg.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2018, 1 month, Contractor, Columbia University.
2005 - 2006, Research assistant, Universiteit van Tilburg, NETSPAR.
2004, 3 months, Research assistant, University of Victoria, Department of Psychology.
2003, 3 months, Research assistant, University of Victoria, Department of Economics.
2003 - 2004, ESL teacher, Incheon, South Korea.
2002, 4 months, Student intern, Industry Canada, Innovation Secretariat.
2001 - 2003, Library assistant, University of Victoria, Department of Economics.
2001 - 2002, Programmer, Proformance Communications.
2000, 4 months, Student intern, Industry Canada, Biopharmaceuticals Technology Roadmap.
SKILLS
Web: nodejs, Vue, Nuxt.js, IndexedDB, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Google Cloud Datastore, Google App Scripts, PHP, MySQL, Google Sites, Java.
Experiments: jtree, z-Tree, ORSEE, oTree; Eyemetrix, Facereader, Tobii Lab Studio.
Statistics: R, Stata, Matlab, Python.
Office: Google Drive, Microsoft Office, SQL, SAP, OpenOffice, Latex.
Languages: English (native), French (C1), German (C1), Spanish (C1).
REFERENCES
2020 - Ronald Linasi, Team Lead, Alturos Destinations, ronald.linasi@alturos.com.
2017 - 2019 Ben Greiner, Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, ben.greiner@wu.ac.at.
2011 - 2016 Jean-Robert Tyran, Professor, University of Vienna, jean-robert.tyran@univie.ac.at.
2011 - 2016 Wieland Müller, Professor, University of Vienna, wieland.mueller@univie.ac.at.
2009 - 2010 Diego Moreno, Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, diego.moreno@uc3m.es.
2009 - 2010 Praveen Kujal, Professor, Middlesex University London, p.kujal@mdx.ac.uk.
2007 - 2008 Charles Noussair, Professor, University of Arizona, cnoussair@email.arizona.edu.
Last updated: 2021.05.22.