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I am an Associate Professor in the Brock School of Business at Samford University in Birmingham, AL.  My research interests include behavioral, experimental, labor and institutional economics.  At Samford, I teach economics and statistics. 

Publications

“Do People Trust Humans More Than ChatGPT?” (2024) with William Hickman. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 112: 102239. (featured on Marginal Revolution) (Top Downloaded Paper on SSRN for Behavioral Research)(featured on the AI in Education podcast) Summary here

"ChatGPT Hallucinates Nonexistent Citations: Evidence from Economics" (2024) with Stephen Hill and Olga Shapoval. The American Economist, 69(1), 80-87. (coverage from the Wall Street Journal) YouTube video presentation of this paper from minute 19:00 - 29:00.

"Finance and Economics Women’s (FEW) Network: Encouraging and Engaging Women in Undergraduate Programs" (2023) with Darwyyn Deyo, Journal of Economic and Finance Education, 22: 1,  1-14.

"Willingness to be Paid: Who Trains for Tech Jobs?" (2022) Labour Economics, Vol 79, 102267. (as featured in Politico Morning Tech and Marginal Revolution)  YouTube  video presentation of this paper from minute 10:00-33:30.

"How dictators use information about recipients" (2022) with Laura Razzolini. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 23:4, 408-426, DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2022.2081971 . Summary here

"Other people's money: preferences for equality in groups" (2022) with Gavin Roberts. European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 73. Summary here

"If Wages Fell During a Recession" (2022) with Daniel Houser. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  Vol. 200, 1141-1159. Working paper here. YouTube video presentation of this paper from minute 19:00-32:00.

"My Reference Point, Not Yours" (2020) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171: 297-311. YouTube video presentation of this paper from minute 33:00-41:00 

"Implementation of a New Data Analytics Curriculum: A Case Study" (2019) with Jennings B. Marshall, Steven T. Jones, Alan Blankley, Chad Carson, Cynthia Lohrke, Matt Mazzei, and Kevin Pan. Proceedings of the Academy of Economics and Finance, 42: 25-30.

"Smile, Dictator, You’re On Camera” (2017) with Matthew McMahon, Matthew Simpson and Bart Wilson. Southern Economic Journal, 84:1, 52-65.

"Economics of the World Beyond the Classroom: Two Methods for Teaching" (2017) with Steven Gjerstad, Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 16:1, 1-6.

“Information Effects in Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions” (2016),with Steven Gjerstad and David Porter. Southern Economic Journal 83:1, 126-145. 

“An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property” (2014) with Bart Wilson. Experimental Economics, 17:4, 691-716.

“Underwater Recession”  with Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith.  The American Interest, May/June 2012. 

Working Papers

"Effort Transparency and Fairness," with Elif Demiral and Umit Saglam (forthcoming at Public Choice)

"Sticky Prices as Coordination Failure: An Experimental Investigation," with David Munro (Under Review)