Mark Schneider – Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business (2022 - Present)
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business (2018 – 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (2015 – 2018)
Ph.D., Operations & Information Management, University of Connecticut, School of Business (2015)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Decision Making under Risk with applications to Auction Theory
Dissertation Committee: Robert Day, Mike Shor, Manuel Nunez
B.A., Economics, Yale University (2008)
Senior Thesis: The Credit Card Effect on Consumption and Saving Advisor: Robert Shiller
1. Azimi, M., Ghazi, S., Schneider, M. (2025) "MAX CAPM: A Behavioral Foundation for Low-Risk Anomalies, Mispricing, and Mometum."
2. Ghazi, S., Schneider, M., Strauss, J. (2024) "Momentum is Still There Conditional on Volatility-Amplified Pessimism."
3. Nunez, M., Schneider, M. (2024) "Generalized NEO-EU Ambiguity Preferences and the Falsifiability of Decision Theories."
1. Ghazi, S., Schneider, M., Strauss, J. (2025) "Market Ambiguity Attitude Restores the Risk-Return Tradeoff." Forthcoming, Management Science.
2. Azimi, M., Ghazi, S., Schneider, M. (2025) "Probability Weighting and Equity Premium Prediction: Investing with Optimism." Forthcoming, Financial Management.
3. Schneider, M., Deck, C., DeJarnette, P. (2025) "Salience Perception and Dominated Choices in Markets." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
4. Ghazi, S., Schneider, M. (2024) "Market Value of Rarity: A Theory of Fair Value and Evidence from Rare Baseball Cards." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
5. Ghazi, S., Schneider, M., Dorobiala, Z. (2024) "Speculative and Non-Speculative Equity Premia." Economics Letters.
6. Schneider, M., Nunez, M. (2023) "A Decision Theoretic Foundation for Noise Traders and Correlated Speculation." Decision Analysis.
7. Schneider, M., Shields, T. (2022). "Motives for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma." Journal of Behavioral Finance.
8. Schneider, M., Stephenson, D.G. (2021). “Price Signaling and Bargains in Markets with Asymmetric Information.” Games and Economic Behavior, 128.
9. Schneider, M., Leland, J. (2021). "Salience and social choice." Experimental Economics.
10. Kimbrough, E.O., Porter, D., Schneider, M. (2021). "Reference dependent prices in bargaining: An experimental examination of precise first offers." Journal of Economic Psychology.
11. Schneider, M. (2020). "A bias aggregation theorem." Economics Letters, 196.
12. Schneider, M. (2020). "Temptation-biased preferences for risk and time." Economics Letters, 193.
13. Schneider, M., Kim, B-C. (2020). "The utilitarian–maximin social welfare function and anomalies in social choice." Southern Economic Journal, 87, 629-646.
14. Schneider, M., Porter, D. (2020). “Effects of Experience, Choice Architecture, and Cognitive Reflection in Strategyproof Mechanisms.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 171, 361-377.
15. Nunez, M., Schneider, M. (2019). “Mean-dispersion preferences with a specific dispersion function.” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 84, 195-206.
16. Leland, J., Schneider, M., Wilcox, N. (2019). “Minimal Frames and Transparent Frames for Risk, Time, and Uncertainty.” Management Science, 65, 3949-4450.
17. Schneider, M., Deck, C., Shor, M., Besedes, T., Sarangi, S. (2019). “Optimizing Choice Architectures.” Decision Analysis, 16, 2-30.
18. Schneider, M., Leland, J., Wilcox, N. (2018). “Ambiguity Framed.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 57, 133-151.
19. Schneider, M., Day, R. (2018). “Target Adjusted Utility Functions and Expected Utility Paradoxes.” Management Science, 64, 271-287.
20. Schneider, M., Shor, M. (2017). “The Allais Common Ratio Effect in Choice, Pricing, and Happiness Tasks.” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
21. Schneider, M., Nunez, M. (2015). “A Simple Mean-Dispersion Model of Ambiguity Attitudes.” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 58, 25-31.
22. Schneider, M., Coulter, R.A. (2015). “A Dual Process Evaluability Framework for Decision Anomalies.” Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 183-198.
23. Schneider, M., Day, R., Garfinkel, R. (2015). “Risk Aversion and Loss Aversion in Core Selecting Auctions.” Decision Support Systems, 79, 161-170.
24. Leland, J., Schneider, M. (2015). “Salience and Strategy Choice in 2x2 Games.” Games, 6 521-559
1. Quantpedia Award for Research in Quantitative Trading, 5th Place (2024)
2. Finalist, Decision Analysis Best Paper Award (2019)
3. Best Paper Award, UConn School of Business (2017)
4. Student Paper Competition of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society, First place winner (2014)
5. OPIM Departmental Outstanding Student Scholar Award, UConn School of Business (2013).
6. Department of Homeland Security Scholar in Science and Technology (2006).
7. Y50K Yale Entrepreneurial Society Business Plan Competition, Finalist (2005)
8. USA Today’s High School Academic First Team (2004)
9. Siemens-Westinghouse Math, Science, Technology Competition, National Winner (2003)
1. “Price Signaling and Bargains in Markets with Asymmetric Information” University of Virginia, Darden School of Business (2019)
2. “Dual Process Utility Theory,” University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2016)
3. “Dual Process Utility Theory,” University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (2016)
4. “Ambiguity Framed,” Brown Bag Seminar, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (2016)
5. “Frame-Dependent Utility Theory,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco (2014)
6. “Frame-Dependent Risk and Time Preferences”, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2014)
7. “Leveraging rationality: Losses Loom Larger than Gains,” Yale School of Management (2012)
National Science Foundation, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Southern Economic Journal.
Decision Theory; Behavioral & Experimental Economics; Behavioral Finance; Information Economics
Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics
INTERVIEWS WITH GREAT MINDS IN ECONOMICS AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
1. Schneider, M. (2012), “Sitting down with Noam Chomsky,” The Yale Scientific Magazine.
2. Schneider, M. (2008). “Great Minds in Economics: An interview with John Nash.” The Yale Economic Review, Vol. IV, (2), 26-31.
3. Schneider, M. (2007). “Great Minds in Economics: An interview with Daniel Kahneman.” The Yale Economic Review, Vol. IV, (1), 22-27.
4. Schneider, M. (2007). “Great Minds in Economics: An interview with Robert Solow.” The Yale Economic Review, Vol. III, (2), 18-23.
5. Schneider, M. (2006). “Great Minds in Economics: An interview with Milton Friedman.” The Yale Economic Review, Vol. III, (1), 39-43.
6. Schneider, M. (2006). “Great Minds in Economics: An interview with Paul Samuelson.” The Yale Economic Review, Vol. II, (3), 39-42.
WORK / RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1. Robert Shiller, Yale University (2006 - 2007) for his book:
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism.
2. Lauren Cohen, Yale University (2006), Behavioral Finance.
1. Senior Editor (June 2006 – August 2008)
2. Academics Editor (September 2005 – May 2006)