Contributors
Simona Fabrizi (UoA & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Co-author of Contributed Talk
Simona Fabrizi joined the University of Auckland (Economics Department) in mid-August 2016. Prior to this, she was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Massey University (2007-2016), a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales (Jul 2014-Feb 2015) and a Lecturer in Economics at Keele University, UK (2006-2007). Simona was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Basque Country (2003-2006) and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Mannheim (2002-2003). She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics in 2003 jointly from the Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Bologna. She is the Co-Founder of the Research Network for Applied and Theoretical Economics (ATE) and of the Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Society (APIOS). She is a member of the Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) since 2010 and has served as its Director in 2017. Her research interests are in the fields of Economic Theory & Design, Innovation Theory, Decision Theory, Information Economics, Industrial Economics, Network Industries, Competition Law & Policy, and Public & Institutional Economics.
Eberhard Feess (VUW) - Guest Speaker
Eberhard Feess joined Victoria University of Wellington as a Professor of Economics in March 2018. Before he held positions at several Universities in Germany, most recently at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He does research in various areas of Applied Microeconomics and currently focuses on the theoretical and experimental analysis of the determinants of moral transgressions. He studied Sociology and Economics, finished his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1988 and his Habilitation in Economics in 1993, both at Goethe-University in Frankfurt.
Prasanna Gai (UoA) - Local Speaker
Prasanna is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Auckland and a Board member of the Financial Markets Authority. His research interests are in the areas of financial stability, monetary policy, and sovereign debt. Prasanna has been Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and served in senior roles at the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the European Systemic Risk Board.
Peter Gibbard (ACCC & ANU) - Guest Speaker
Peter Gibbard recently submitted a Ph.D. in Economics at the Australian National University, and he expects to graduate in 2019. His research interests are in consumer search and behavioural models of decision-making. His current research projects include theoretical models of choice with limited attention and framing effects, as well as structural econometric models of online search.
Simon Grant (ANU) - Guest Speaker
Simon Grant joined the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University in December 2014, where he is the John C. Harsanyi Chair of Economics. He has also previously held positions at The University of Melbourne, The University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Rice University in Houston, Texas.
He studied economics at the ANU and then completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1991. His principal research interest is in decision theory. In particular he is interested in modelling boundedly rational decision makers with limited awareness in the presence of uncertainty, and applying these models to economic settings involving strategic interactions and social choice.
Allan Hernandez-Chanto (UQ) - Guest Speaker
Allan Hernandez-Chanto is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Queensland. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Arizona State University. His interests include market design, mechanism design, information economics, applied game theory, and financial economics. His recent research focuses on the study of the centralized assignment of students to majors when students are constrained in their choice, preferences are private information, and students are risk-averse. His agenda also includes the study of auctions when the seller can use securities to determine bidders' payments and bidders are risk-averse.
Onur Koska (Canterbury) - Guest Speaker
Onur Koska's principal research interests are in the fields of international and industrial economics with a special focus on international trade, multinational firms and foreign direct investment. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Otago. Before Otago, he was at METU (Turkey), where he completed M.Sc. and Ph.D. coursework in Economics. He received his B.Sc. in Economics from Hacettepe University (Turkey). He was an Assistant Professor at METU (2015-2019), at the University of Tübingen, Germany (2011-2015) and at the University of Würzburg, Germany (2009-2011). Since March 2019, he has been at the University of Canterbury.
Yi-Hsuan (Ethan) Lin (Academia Sinica, Taipei) - Guest Speaker
Yi-Hsuan Lin joined the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica as an Assistant Research Fellow in August 2019, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University. His principal research interests are in decision theory. His current research covers rational inattention, random choice, revealed preference, and non-expected utility.
Steffen Lippert (UoA & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Speaker
Steffen Lippert joined the University of Auckland (Economics Department) in July 2014. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Otago and at Massey University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. He studied Economics at Mannheim, Berkeley, and Toulouse and received his Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 jointly from the Toulouse School of Economics and Mannheim University. He currently is the Director of the Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences (CMSS). His research focuses on Industrial Economics, the Economics of Innovation, and the Economics of Social Interaction and Networks. He is a co-founder of the Research Network for Applied and Theoretical Economics, ATE and of the Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Society (APIOS).
Richard Meade (AUT and Cognitus) - Guest Speaker
Richard Meade is Principal Economist at Cognitus Economic Insight, Senior Research Fellow in economics at Auckland University of Technology, and occasional lecturer in industrial organisation and environmental economics. His research interests include the impacts of ownership types such as customer ownership, vertical integration, and household production on optimal regulation, and firm behaviour and strategy. He has a particular focus on imperfectly competitive industries such as utilities (e.g. electricity sectors) and banking. Richard also applies economic techniques for analysing Māori governance and organisational issues. As well as applied theory research, Richard undertakes empirical research using techniques such as discrete choice demand analysis. He has served as referee on the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Economic Modelling, New Zealand Economic Papers, and New Zealand Treasury Working Papers, and is Vice President Auckland of the Law & Economics Association of New Zealand. He was awarded a Ph.D. in industrial organisation and regulation by the Toulouse School of Economics in 2014.
Addison Pan (UoA & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Leading the Tour to the DECIDE Lab
Addison Pan joined the University of Auckland (Economics Department) as a Post-doctoral research fellow in September 2016, after receiving her Ph.D. in Economics from Massey University. She is the manager of the Laboratory for Business Decision Making (DECIDE). She is also a member of the Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) and the Research Network for Applied and Theoretical Economics (ATE). Her research focuses on decision theory, experimental methods and behavioural economics.
Ronald Peeters (Otago) - Guest Speaker
Ronald Peeters has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Otago since he joined their Department of Economics in 2017. His research interests are best summarised as “anything that deals with coordination and cooperation (on socially desirable outcomes, including social norms) in dynamic settings of strategic interaction.” His methodological toolkit consists of game theory (dynamic games, evolutionary games), learning models (bounded rationality), social networks, computational economics, laboratory experiments and simulations. One particular topic within this broad area concerns the evolution of socially desirable behaviour within social networks. In addition, he develops mechanisms to elicit and aggregate beliefs and expectations for the purpose of predicting future events.
Thomas Pfeiffer (NZIAS, Massey University & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Speaker
Thomas Pfeiffer is a Professor at the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Studies at Massey University. He graduated in biophysics from Humboldt University Berlin, received a Ph.D. from the ETH Zurich, and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University. His research focus is game theory and its applications in evolutionary biology, human behaviour and economics, and he uses mathematical and computational modelling techniques as well as experimental approaches. Thomas Pfeiffer is a member of the Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences (CMSS).
Matthew Ryan (AUT & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Speaker
Matthew Ryan is an alumnus of the University of Auckland (from where he obtained a BA in Economics and Philosophy) and is currently a Professor in the School of Economics at Auckland University of Technology. His Ph.D. is from Yale University. He has previously held appointments at the University of Auckland and the Australian National University. He was a founding Director of the Economic Design Network (2005-2009) and past Director (2013) of the Centre for Mathematical Social Science. Matthew has worked across a range of areas in theoretical microeconomics but his main interests are in decision theory. Most recently, he has been studying the axiomatic foundations of probabilistic models of choice and their implications for the interpretation of experimental evidence on the descriptive validity of expected utility and its theoretical competitors.
Yen Ling Tan (UoA & CMSS Affiliate) - Local Speaker
Yen Ling Tan’s research interests include decision theory, industrial economics and experimental methods, with a focus on applications in the digital economy. She has previously interned at the Commerce Commission and is currently completing an Honours in Economics degree at the University of Auckland.
James Tremewan (UoA & CMSS) - Local Organiser & Co-author of Contributed Talk
James Tremewan’s research interests are in Experimental Economics, focussing on multilateral bargaining, voting behaviour, information transmission, and belief elicitation. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics in 2011 and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna from 2011 until 2017. He then became a Research Associate at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, until he joined the University of Auckland, Department of Economics, as a Senior Lecturer in June 2018.
Marc Vorsatz (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) - Guest Speaker
Marc Vorsatz is currently Professor of Economics at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED in Madrid. He obtained his Ph.D. from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-UAB in 2005. Before joining UNED in 2012, he worked at the Department of Economics AE1 at Maastricht University (2005-2008) and at the research institute FEDEA in Madrid (2008-2012). Marc is interested in Microeconomic Theory and Behavioral/Experimental Economics. His main contributions are on social choice theory, social preferences in games of strategic information transmission, and the experimental analysis of matching markets.