CV
Contact Information
Department of Economics, KTH 436
McMaster University
1280 Main St. West
Hamilton, ON
CANADA L8S 4M4
tel. (905) 525-9140 ext. 23807
email: ruffleb@mcmaster.ca
Online Academic Profiles
personal website
Repec profile: https://ideas.repec.org/e/pru21.html
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=E592lfUAAAAJ&hl=en
Mendeley profile: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/bradley-ruffle/
McDSL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcdsl_mcmaster/
Research Interests
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Economics
Industrial Organization
Education
date Institute Degree Areas of Specialization
1996 Princeton University Ph.D. Economics
1993 Princeton University M.A. Economics
1991 York University, Glendon College B.A. Mathematics and Economics
Dissertation Title: “The Role of Emotions, Fairness and Strategic Behavior in Interactive Decision-Making”.
Dissertation Advisors: Avinash Dixit, Daniel Kahneman and Timothy Van Zandt.
Employment History: Full-Time Positions
from-to, Institution, Position
July 2019 – present , McMaster University, Department of Economics, Full Professor
July 2017 – June 2019, Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Economics, Full Professor
July 2013 – June 2017, Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor
Dec. 2011 – June 2014, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor (equivalent to Full Professor)
Apr. 2004 – Nov. 2011, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) (tenured Oct. 2004)
Apr. 1998 – Mar. 2004, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor)
Mar. 1997 – Mar. 1998 Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellow
Employment History: Visiting Positions
from-to, Institution, Position
July 2017, July 2018, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Visiting Professor
Aug. 2012 – June 2013 (Sabbatical), University of Guelph, Department of Economics, Visiting Professor
Sep. 2009, Université Montpellier I, Department of Economics, Visiting Professor
Aug. 2006 – Oct. 2006 Tokyo University, Institute for Social Sciences, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow
Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2004 (Sabbatical/LOA), Harvard Business School, Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Research Fellow
Spring 1996, University of Arizona, Economic Science Laboratory, Olin Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Other Affiliations
2017 – present, Senior Fellow, Research Centre for Economic Analysis, Rimini, Italy
2015 – 2016, Fellow, Research Centre for Economic Analysis, Rimini, Italy
Teaching
Graduate Courses (Institution x=number of times taught)
Experimental Economics (McMaster x5)
Behavioral Economics (BGU x8)
Industrial Organization (BGU x2, Montpellier x1)
Directed Reading in Experimental Economics (McMaster x2)
Microeconomics (Laurier x4)
Undergraduate Courses (Institution x=number of times taught)
Experimental Economics (BGU x16)
Behavioral Economics (McMaster x7, Laurier x6)
Industrial Organization (BGU x14, Laurier x1)
Advanced Microeconomics (Guelph x1)
Intermediate Microeconomics (Laurier x6)
Introductory Microeconomics (BGU x4)
Ph.D. Student Supervisions
McMaster
Andrew Leal (in progress, expected completion: May 2025).
Li-Hsin Lin (in progress).
Robbie McKercher (in progress).
Reyhaneh Nikoonejad (in progress).
Tanzir Rahman Khan (in progress).
Richard Li (in progress).
BGU
Yaakov Bayer (2015), jointly supervised with Ro’i Zultan.
Ze’ev Shtudiner (2011), first & current appointment at Ariel University.
Editorial Work
Associate Editor, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2018 – present)
Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2006 – present)
Co-Editor (with H.-T. Normann), International Journal of Industrial Organization, special issue on "Experiments in Industrial Organization," January 2011, 29:1, 1-154.
Scientific Committees and Service
SSHRC Insight Grants Adjudication Committee (Economics), 2023-2024.
Treasurer of Canadian Experimental and Behavioural Economics Research Group (CEBERG), 2023 – present.
Member of Program Committee for Canadian Experimental and Behavioural Economics Research Group (CEBERG) submissions, Canadian Economic Association meetings, Banff, May 30-June 2, 2019.
Member of Scientific and Organizing Committees for Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF2016), Waterloo, Canada, Sep. 16-18, 2016.
Member of Scientific Committee for 43rd EARIE Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 26-28, 2016.
Member of Scientific Committee for 42nd EARIE Conference, Munich, Germany, Aug. 28-30, 2015.
Member of Scientific Committee for 41st EARIE Conference, Milan, Italy, Aug. 29-31, 2014.
Member of Scientific Committee for 3rd Workshop on “Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments”, Alberobello, Italy, June 26-28, 2014.
Member of Scientific Committee for 40th EARIE Conference, Evora, Portugal, Aug. 30-Sep. 1, 2013.
Member of Scientific Committee for 39th EARIE Conference, Rome, Italy, Sep. 2-4, 2012.
Member of Scientific Committee for 2nd Workshop on “Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments”, Otranto, Italy, June 23-24, 2011.
Member of Advisory Committee (twice), Binational (U.S.-Israel) Science Foundation.
Member of Advisory Committee, Israel Trustees Foundation.
Publications in Refereed Journals
1. Kaplan, Todd and Bradley Ruffle (1998) “Self-Serving Bias [Comment],” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12:2, 243–244.
2. Ruffle, Bradley J. (1998) “More is Better, But Fair is Fair: Tipping in Dictator and Ultimatum Games,” Games and Economic Behavior, 23, 247–265.
3. Ruffle, Bradley J. (1999) “Gift Giving with Emotions,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39:4, 399–420.
4. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Orit Tykocinski (2000) “The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment,” American Economic Review, 90:1, 319–324.
5. Ruffle, Bradley J. (2000) “Some Factors Affecting Demand Withholding in Posted-Offer Markets,” Economic Theory, 16:3, 529–544.
[reprinted in T. Cason and C. Noussair (eds.), Advances in experimental markets, Studies in
Economic Theory, vol. 15, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, pp. 33-48, 2001.]
6. Tykocinski, Orit E. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2003) “Reasonable Reasons for Waiting,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 16, 1–11.
7. Ruffle, Bradley J. (2003) “Competitive Equilibrium and Classroom Pit Markets,” Journal of Economic Education, 34:2, 123–137.
8. Sosis, Richard and Bradley J. Ruffle (2003) “Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim,” Current Anthropology, 44:5, 713–722.
9. Kaplan, Todd R. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) “The Self-Serving Bias and Beliefs about Rationality,” Economic Inquiry, 42:2, 237–246.
10. Sosis, Richard and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) “Reply: Religious Ritual and Cooperation,” Current Anthropology, 45:4, 529–530.
11. Ruffle, Bradley J. (2005) “Tax and Subsidy Incidence Equivalence Theories: Experimental Evidence from Competitive Markets,” Journal of Public Economics, 89:8, 1519–1542.
12. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Richard Sosis (2006) “Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60:2, 147–163.
13. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Ze’ev Shtudiner (2006) “99: Are Retailers Best Responding to Rational Consumers? Experimental Evidence,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 27:6, 459–475.
14. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Richard Sosis (2007) “Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 18.
15. Normann, Hans-Theo, Bradley J. Ruffle and Christopher M. Snyder (2007) “Do Buyer-Size Discounts Depend on the Curvature of the Surplus Function? Experimental Tests of Bargaining Models,” RAND Journal of Economics, 38:3, 747–767.
16. Kaplan, Todd R. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2009) “In search of welfare-improving gifts,” European Economic Review, 53, 445–460.
17. Kaplan, Todd R. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2012) “Which Way to Cooperate?” Economic Journal, 122: 563, 1042–1068.
18. Blumkin, Tomer, Bradley J. Ruffle and Yosef Ganun (2012) “Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment,” European Economic Review, 56, 1200–1219.
19. Ruffle, Bradley J. (2013) “When do large buyers pay less? Experimental evidence,” Journal of Industrial Economics, 61:1, 108–137.
20. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Yossef Tobol (2014) “Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the temporal separation between decisions and payoffs,” European Economic Review, 65, 126–135.
21. Feldman, Naomi E. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2015) “The Impact of Including, Adding and Subtracting a Tax on Demand,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7:1, 95–118.
22. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Ze'ev Shtudiner (2015) “Are Good-Looking People more Employable?” Management Science, 61:8, 1760–1776.
23. Ruffle, Bradley J., Avi Weiss and Amir Etziony (2015) “The Role of Critical Mass in Establishing a Successful Network Market: An Experimental Investigation,” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58, 101–110.
24. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Oscar Volij (2016) “First-Mover Advantage in Two-Sided Competitions: An Experimental Comparison of Role Assignment Rules,” International Journal of Game Theory, 45:4, 933–970.
25. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Yossef Tobol (2017) “Clever Enough to Tell the Truth,” Experimental Economics, 20:1, 130–155.
26. Kaplan, Todd R., Bradley J. Ruffle and Ze’ev Shtudiner (2018) “Cooperation through Coordination in Two Stages, ” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 154, 206-219.
27. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Anne Wilson (2018) “The Truth about Tattoos,” Economics Letters, 172, 143-147.
28. Bayer, Ya’akov, Bradley J. Ruffle, Ze’ev Shtudiner and Ro’i Zultan (2018) “Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 69, 30-43.
29. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Anne Wilson (2019) “Tat will tell: Tattoos and time preferences,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 166, 566-585.
30. Ruffle, Bradley J. and Richard Sosis (2020) “Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? Evidence from decision-making scenario experiments,” Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 1:1, 1-25.
31. Papanastasiou, Anastasios, Bradley J. Ruffle and Angela Zheng (2022) “Compliance with Social Distancing: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Ontario during COVID-19,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 55, 705-734.
32. Ruffle, Bradley J., Arie Sherman and Ze’ev Shtudiner (2022) “Gender and Beauty Price Discrimination in Produce Markets,” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 97.
Invited Book Chapters
Sosis, Richard and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) “Ideology, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Experiments on Israeli Kibbutzim,” pp. 89–117, in Research in Economic Anthropology, volume 23, Michael Alvard (ed.), Emerald Insight.
Ruffle, Bradley J. (2009) “Buyer Countervailing Power: A Survey of the Theory and Experimental Evidence,” in Experiments and Antitrust Policy, J. Hinloopen and H.-T. Normann (eds.), Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp. 160-182. [Article]
Other Publications
Normann, Hans-Theo and Bradley J. Ruffle (2011) “Introduction to the special issue on experiments in industrial organization,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29:1, 1-3.
Ruffle, Bradley (March 22, 2012) Blog: “Photos of Attractive Female Job Seekers Stir Up HR Jealousy,” Harvard Business Review. [Blog]
Ruffle, Bradley (October 19, 2021) “Think Before You Get Inked,” Psychology Today.
Working Papers
Morrison, William and Bradley J. Ruffle (June 2024) “Do higher insurance premiums provoke larger reported losses? An experimental study”.
Li, Tongzhe and Bradley J. Ruffle (October 2023) “Does income mobility predict preferences for income distribution?”.
Morrison, William and Bradley J. Ruffle (February 2023) “Do Prefilled Insurance Claims Forms Reduce Insurance Fraud?”
Berger, Leslie, Lan Guo, Kelsey Kirbyson and Bradley J. Ruffle (June 2024) “Paying Employees to Quit: An Experimental Study of Sorting and (De)Motivational Effects”.
Works in Progress
Ruffle, Bradley J. “Matching in co-operative education programs: An experimental study”.
Khan, Tanzir Rahman and Bradley J. Ruffle “Heterogenous contributions to the public goods game: A closer look at conditional cooperation”.
Ruffle, Bradley J. and William Zhang "Cheating on a budget".
Retired Working Papers
Maaz, Muhammad, Anastasios Papanastasiou, Bradley J. Ruffle and Angela Zheng (2021) “Heterogeneity in the Support for Mandatory Masks Unveiled”.
Bayer, Ya’akov, Bradley J. Ruffle, Ro’i Zultan and Tzvi Dwolatzky (2018) “Time preferences of older people with mild cognitive impairment”.
Feldman, Naomi E. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2008) “Religious Terrorism: A Cross-Country Analysis”.
Engle-Warnick, Jim and Bradley J. Ruffle (2005) “Buyer Concentration as a Source of Countervailing Power: Evidence from Experimental Posted-Offer Markets”.
Engle-Warnick, Jim and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) “The Strategies Behind their Actions: A Method to Infer Repeated-Game Strategies and an Application to Buyer Behavior”.
Book Reviews
“Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation” by Bruno Frey, Edward Elgar, 1997, in European Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 15:2, 379-380.
“Gandhi’s Economic Thought” by Ajit DasGupta, Routledge, 1996, in Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 1998, 7:4, 451-453.
Invited Seminars at Universities (since 2000), Econ dep'ts (unless otherwise indicated)
Saint Mary's (virtual), Waterloo 2024
McMaster, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Ontario Ministry of Finance 2018
Laval, Windsor 2017
Guelph 2016
Florida State 2014
Loyola Marymount, Laurier, Western, NYU, Saskatchewan 2013
Bar-Ilan, Ben-Gurion (Public Policy), Waterloo, McMaster, Guelph, U. of Toronto 2012
Hebrew U. 2010
Bar-Ilan, Tel-Aviv, Goethe, Université Montpellier I, Guelph, Tel-Aviv (B-School) 2009
McMaster, York U. (Glendon), Connecticut (ECC), IZA, Haifa 2008
Hebrew U. 2007
York U., Ryerson, Guelph, Carleton, UT-Dallas, Tokyo, Nagoya City, Osaka, Waseda 2006
Ryerson 2005
Florida State, Emory, Harvard (HBS), MIT (Sloan), AABGU, McMaster, Tel-Aviv 2004
Exeter, Hebrew U.-Rehovot, Harvard 2003
New Brunswick-St. John, U. of Toronto, McMaster, Bar-Ilan 2002
Oxford, Osaka, Tel-Aviv, Hebrew U., Ben-Gurion 2001
Indian Institute of Management 2000
Conference Presentations (since 1999)
World Economic Science Association Meeting, Bogota, Columbia, June 2024
Canadian Economic Association, Toronto, Canada, May 31 - June 1, 2024
Southern Ontario Behavioural Decision Research Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2024
Theory and Experiments at McMaster (TEAM) Workshop, Hamilton, Canada, April 2024
North American Economic Science Association meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 2023
Canadian Economic Association, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2023
Ministerial CIHR-Health Canada Best Brains Exchanges, “Using Behavioural Science to Drive COVID-19 Testing”, virtual, March 2021
25th Annual Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, Chapman University, Orange, USA, January 2020
Canadian Economic Association, Banff, Canada, June 2019
Canadian Economic Association, Montreal, Canada, June 2018
Southern Ontario Behavioural Decision Research Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2018
2017 Exeter Prize Workshop, Exeter, England, November 2017
Canadian Economic Association, Antigonish, Canada, June 2017
Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association, Taipei, Taiwan, February 2017
Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance, Waterloo, Canada, September 2016
Canadian Economic Association, Ottawa, Canada, June 2016
ZEW Laboratory Experiments in Public Economics, Mannheim, Germany, February 2016
Economic Design: The Economist as Economic Engineer, Exeter, England, July 2015
90th Western Economic Association International, Honolulu, USA, June 2015
Canadian Economic Association, Toronto, Canada, May 2015
Southern Ontario Behavioural Decision Research Conference, Guelph, Canada, May 2014
Experimental Methods in Policy, Curacao, February 2014
Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, November 2012
Rethinking Rationality Workshop, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, Israel, January 2012
Society, Networks and Game Theory Workshop, Beer Sheva, Israel, January 2012
4th Psychology of Investment Conference, Rishon Lezion, Israel, December 2011
Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments, Otranto, Italy, June 2011
History and Philosophy of Economics 24th Annual Intern'l Workshop, Jerusalem, Dec. 2010
IMEBE, Bilbao, Spain, April 2010
Israel Economic Association, Ma'aleh HaHamisha, June 2009
Workshop on Individual Decision-Making: A Behavioral Approach, Tel Aviv, June 2009
International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, MA, March 2009
Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association, Haifa, Israel, March 2009
Journées d'Économie Expérimentale, Dijon, France, May 2008
IMEBE, Alicante, Spain, March 2008
Tax System in Israel Conference, Falk Institute, Jerusalem, June 2007
iFree Conference in honor of Vernon Smith's 80th birthday, Arlington, VA, April 2007
Roundtable Discussant, Behavioral Law & Economics Conference, Haifa, June 2006
Behavioral Game Theory and Experiments Workshop, Capua, Italy, May 2006
Israel Economic Association, Ma'aleh HaHamisha, May 2006
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Vigo, Spain, July 2005
Zeuthen Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2005
Economic Science Association, Strasbourg, September 2002
Economic Science Association, Boston, MA, June 2002
ASSA meetings, Atlanta, GA, January 2002
Far Eastern Econometric Society Meetings, Osaka, Japan, July 2001
Economic Science Association, Barcelona, Spain, June 2001
Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, October 2000
Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, October 2000
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Lausanne, September 2000
Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Reunion, Berkeley, CA, August 1999
International Social Dilemmas Conference, Zicharon Yakov, Israel, July 1999
Economic Science Association, Lake Tahoe, NV, May 1999
Selected Media Coverage of Research
Tattoos: The Times of London (Sep. 3, 2019), Vancouver Sun (Sep. 3, 2019), La Presse (Sep. 3, 2019), New York Post (Sep. 4, 2019), News.com.au (Sep. 5, 2019), Evening Standard (Sep. 6, 2019), Herald Sun (Sep. 6, 2019), New Zealand Herald (Sep. 6, 2019), Global News (Sep. 11, 2019), Yahoo! Finance (Sep. 11, 2019), LinkedIn Editors, (Sep. 13, 2019), Roundhouse Radio 98.3 (Feb. 19, 2018), CTV-Kitchener 6:00pm news feature (Feb. 15, 2018), 570 News (Feb. 14, 2018), CBC Radio Kitchener-Waterloo, The Morning Edition (Feb. 15, 2018), & tens of additional newspapers, blogs, podcasts, radio and television programs.
Beauty: The Economist (March 31, 2012), New York Times (Nov. 30, 2010), Huffington Post (USA, April 5, 2012), Bloomberg Businessweek (Dec. 3, 2010), Forbes (USA, April 4, 2012), Forbes (USA, April 4, 2013), The Toronto Star (Canada, April 11, 2012), Der Spiegel (Germany, April 10, 2012), The Daily Mail (UK, April 18, 2011 & April 4, 2012), April 18, 2011), Estadao (Brazil, July 11, 2011), Herald Sun (Australia, Dec. 1, 2010), Jerusalem Post (Israel, Nov. 29, 2010), Emirates 24/7 (UAE, Dec. 6, 2010), Hindustan Times (India, Dec. 2, 2010), The Record (Sep. 26, 2015), Recruitment Grapevine (May 14, 2015), The Star Early Edition (May 15, 2015) & hundreds of additional newspapers, blogs, radio and television programs.
Religion: The Economist (March 19, 2008), Chronicle of Higher Education (Aug. 13, 2012), Science and Religion Today (July 27, 2010).
Honesty: Washington Post (April 15, 2016), Times of Israel (Aug. 13, 2013), Israel HaYom (July 31, 2013).
Gift giving: Financial Times (Dec. 11, 2004) New York Times (Jan. 4, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald (Dec. 24, 2003), Jerusalem Post (March 7, 2008), Australian Broadcasting Corporation ("Life Matters" program with Geraldine Doogue, December 2002), Woolwich Observer (Dec. 3, 2015).
Referee Work
Referee for the following journals:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy • American Economic Review • B.E. Press Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy • Canadian Journal of Economics • Canadian Public Policy • Economic Development and Cultural Change • Econometrica • Economic Inquiry • Economic Journal • Economic Theory • Economics Bulletin • Economics Letters • European Economic Review • Experimental Economics • European Journal of Political Economy • Games and Economic Behavior • International Economic Review • International Journal of Game Theory • International Journal of Industrial Organization • International Journal of Manpower • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion • Journal of Applied Social Psychology • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making • Journal of Business Research • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization • Journal of Economic Education • Journal of Economic Psychology • Journal of the Economic Science Association • Journal of European Economic Association • Journal of Industrial Economics • Journal of Public Policy and Marketing • Journal of Political Economy • Journal of Public Economics • Journal of Socio-Economics • Judgment and Decision Making • LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations • Management Science • Managerial and Decision Economics • Marketing Science • National Tax Journal • New Zealand Economic Papers • Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly • Oxford Open Economics • Psychological Reports • Psychology • RAND Journal of Economics • Religion, Brain and Behavior • Review of Behavioral Economics • Review of Economic Analysis • Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics and Statistics • Research in Economic Anthropology • Scandinavian Journal of Economics • Social Issues • Southern Economic Journal.
Referee for the following research foundations:
Binational Science Foundation • British Academy • Czech Science Foundation, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Development • Israel Science Foundation • Leverhulme Trust • National Science Foundation • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Promotion and Tenure Letters (listed alphabetically by university; dates and candidates’ names omitted to preserve anonymity)
American University of Sharjah, Economics
Ben-Gurion University, Business School (three times – 2 candidates)
Carleton University, Economics
Florida State University, Economics
Jerusalem College of Technology, School of Management (twice – 2 candidates)
St. Mary’s University, Business School
Simon Fraser University, Economics
University of Canterbury, Economics
University of Massachussetts-Amhert, Resource Economics
University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Economics
University of Utah, Economics
Virginia Commonwealth University, Economics
York University, Economics
University Service (past 18 years)
2023-present – Faculty of Social Sciences IT Governance Committee, McMaster
2023-2024 – Tenure and Promotions Committee, Economics Department, McMaster
2022-2024 – University Tenure and Promotion Appeals Nominating Committee, McMaster
2022-2023 – Advisory Committee for Spark: a centre for social research innovation, McMaster
2021-2024 – University Grievance Review Panel, McMaster
2021-2022 – Tenure and Promotions Committee, Economics Department, McMaster
2020-2022 – Graduate Studies Committee, Economics Department, McMaster
2019-present – Academic Director, McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL)
2018-2019 – Co-organizer of external departmental seminar, WLU
2017 – Lazaridis Institute Research Advisory Committee, WLU
Winter/Spring 2017 – Lazaridis SBE U/G Awards Committee, WLU
Fall 2016 – Member of ad-hoc committee for revisions to tenure guidelines, WLU
2014-2017 – Co-organizer of external departmental seminar, WLU
2013-2014 – M.A. and Ph.D. Admissions Committee, School of Business and Economics, WLU
2010-2012 – Departmental M.A. Committee Chair, Economics, BGU
2009-2014 – Founder & Co-Director of Experimental Economics Laboratory, BGU
2008-2010 – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences M.A. Committee, BGU
2007-2010 – Director of Monaster Center for Economic Research, BGU
Research Grants and Awards
Date, Funding Agency, Research Topic, Amount
2020-2022, McMaster COVID-19 Research Fund, Incentives for Social Distancing: Wage Subsidies, Fines and Mandatory Masks, (with A. Papanastasiou), $32,050 CAD.
2020-2022, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE), Does income mobility predict preferences for income redistribution? (with T. Li), $8,805 USD.
2019-2020, Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), How Paying Employees to Quit or to Stay Affects Motivation, (with L. Berger, L. Guo, K. Kirbyson), $8,000 CAD.
2018-2023, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, Working for a better match: An experimental investigation of co-op programs’ matching mechanism and alternatives, $90,977 CAD.
2018-2019, Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises, Do Pre-Filled Online Forms Encourage More Accurate Reporting? (with W. Morrison), $10,000 CAD.
2012-2013, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Pricing Strategies in a Dynamic Network Market: An Experimental Analysis, (with A. Weiss and F. Heinemann), €69,669.
2006-2009, Binational Science Foundation, Trust, Religion and Signaling, (with R. Sosis), $120,000 USD.
2006-2007, Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment, (with T. Blumkin), 35,600 NIS.
2005-2007, Russell Sage Foundation, Trust, Religion and Signaling, (with R. Sosis), $156,000 USD.
2005-2006, Economics of National Security, Neaman Institute, Choose Your Weapon: An Empirical Study of the Determinants of Terrorists' Methods, (with N. Feldman), 40,000 NIS.
2003-2005, Israel Science Foundation, The Origins of Cooperation and Social Conventions, (with T. Kaplan), $23,000 USD.
2003-2004, Economic and Social Research Council, The Origins of Cooperation and Social Conventions, (with T. Kaplan), £46,671.
2002-2003, Nuffield Foundation, Social Sciences Small Grants Scheme, Buyer Power and Implications for Retail Consolidation: An Experimental Investigation, (with H. Normann and C. Snyder), £5,472.
2001-2002, Ben-Gurion University, Seed Money, Buyer Power in Experimental Markets, 20,000 NIS.
2000-2003, Binational Science Foundation, The Impact of Religiosity and Privatization on Intra-Group Trust, (with R. Sosis), $56,235 USD.
2000, Ben-Gurion University, Dean’s Fund, Buyer Power in Experimental Markets, 10,000 NIS.
2000-2001, University of Connecticut Large Faculty Grant, Trust and Cooperation within Religious and Secular Kibbutzim, (with R. Sosis), $15,000 USD.
2000-2001, The Ruppin Institute, Trust and Cooperation within Religious and Secular Kibbutzim, (with R. Sosis), 10,000 NIS.
1999-2000, The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, Trust and Cooperation within Religious and Secular Kibbutzim, (with R. Sosis), $12,000 USD.
1997-2001, Russell Sage Foundation, Buyer Behavior in Experimental Markets, $3,468 USD.
Sept. 1997, E.A.R.I.E., The Young Economists’ Award, Demand Withholding in Posted-Offer Markets, 50,000 BEF.
1995-1996, Russell Sage Foundation, Experimental Bargaining Games, $1,900 USD.
Citizenship Canadian and Israeli
Family Status Married + 2
Languages Fluent and literate in English, French and Hebrew.