David J. Cooper

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Education:

• Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, defended September 1992

• Harvard University, A.B., Applied Mathematics, Magna cum Laude, 1988

Thesis Topic and Advisor:

• Four Essays in Applied Game Theory (Advisor: Dilip Abreu)

Major Fields of Interest:

• Experimental Economics

• Behavioral Economics

• Entrepreneurship

• Managerial Decision Making

Professional Experience:

• Departmental Executive Officer, Department of Economics, 2021 - present

• Tippie and Rollins Professor of Economics, University of Iowa, 2021 – present

• Professor, University of East Anglia (secondary appointment), 2013 – 2016, 2017 – present

• Director, XS/FS (experimental social sciences cluster at Florida State University), 2011 - 2021

• Brim Eminent Scholar in Economics, Florida State University, 2009 - 2021

• Professor, Florida State University, Summer 2007 – Fall 2009

•  Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Fall 2003 – Spring 2007

•  Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Fall 1999 - Spring 2003

•  Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 1992 - Spring 1999

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

• NSF Fellowship

• Ten grants from the NSF (total funding $3,644,815)

• Three grants from the Kauffman Foundation (total funding $145,000)

Notable Publications:

• “Supergames Played by Finite Automata with Finite Costs of Complexity in an Evolutionary Setting,” Journal of Economic Theory, (1/96) 68, 1, pp. 266 - 275.

• “Adaptive Learning vs Equilibrium Refinements in an Entry Limit Pricing Game,” The Economic Journal, (5/97, with Susan Garvin and John Kagel) 107, pp. 553-575.

• “Signalling and Adaptive Learning in an Entry Limit Pricing Game,” Rand Journal of Economics, (11/97, with Susan Garvin and John Kagel) 28, 4, pp. 662-683.

• “Gaming Against Managers in Incentive Systems: Experimental Results with Chinese Students and Chinese Managers,” American Economics Review, (9/99, with John Kagel, Wei Lo, and Qing Liang Gu) 89, 4, pp. 781-804.

• “Evidence on the Equivalence of the Strategic and Extensive Form Representation of Games,” Journal of Economic Theory, (6/03, with John Van Huyck) 110, pp. 290 - 308.

• “Are Two Heads Better Than One? Team versus Individual Play in Signaling Games,” American Economic Review, (6/05, lead article, with John Kagel) 95, 3, 477 - 509.

• “A Change Would Do You Good: An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations,” American Economic Review, (6/06, with Jordi Brandts) 96, 3, 669 - 693.

• “It's What You Say, Not What You Pay: An Experimental Study of Manager-Employee Relationships in Overcoming Coordination Failure,” (12/07, with Jordi Brandts) Journal of the European Economic Association, 5, 6, pp. 1223-1268.

• “Understanding Overbidding in Second Price Auctions: An Experimental Study,” (10/08, with Hanming Fang,) The Economic Journal, 118, 1572–1595..

• “The Role of Context and Team Play in Cross-Game Learning,” (9/09, with John Kagel) Journal of the European Economic Association, 7, 5: 1101–1139.

• “Entrepreneurship and Team Participation: An Experimental Study," (with Krista Jabs Saral), European Economic Review, 59, pp. 126-140.

• “Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion,” (with Kai-Uwe Kühn), American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 6, 2, pp. 247-278.

• “Legitimacy, Social Distance, and Leadership in the Turnaround Game,” (11/15, with Jordi Brandts and Roberto Weber) Management Science, 61, 11, 2627-2645.

• “Stand by Me:  Help, Heterogeneity and Commitment in Experimental Coordination Games,” (10/16, with Jordi Brandts, Enrique Fatas, and Shi Qi), Management Science, 62, 10, 2916-2936.

• “Other Regarding Preferences: A Survey of Experimental Results,” (with John Kagel) in J. Kagel and A. Roth (eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol. 2, (2016) Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• “Endogenous Role Assignment and Team Performance” (with Matthias Sutter), International Economic Review, 59, 3, pp. 1547-1569.

• “Managing Social Credibility: An Experiment on Leadership and Coordination” (with John Hamman and Roberto Weber), The Economic Journal, 130, pp. 2105 - 2133.

• “Why Join a Team,” (with Krista Saral and Marie Claire Villeval), Management Science, 67, 11, pp. 6980-6997.

• “Using Team Discussions to Understand Behavior in Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games,” (with John Kagel) forthcoming American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

• “The Types They Are a-Changin': An Experimental Study of Persistence of Types in Level-k Models” (with Enrique Fatas, Antonio Morales, and Shi Qi, 7/23), forthcoming American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Professional Presentations:

Conferences: AEA Meetings, Conference on Evolutionary Game Theory (Wilfred Laurier), Conference on Learning Equilibrium Behavior, Econometric Society, Economic Science Association, EWEBE, Fields Institute Conference for Robert Aumann (U. of Toronto), Game Theory Society, World Congress, IMEBE, IMEBESS Midwest Mathematical Economics Meetings, Public Choice Meetings, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Southern Economic Association, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook University (and workshops) 

Invited Talks: University of Akron, University of Alaska-Anchorage, University of Amsterdam, Appalachian State University, University of Arkansas, Arne Ryde Workshop (Lund University, plenary), Asian-Pacific Meetings of the ESA (plenary), ASFEE (plenary), University of California Irvine, University of California Santa-Barbara, University of California Santa-Cruz, University of California San Diego, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve, Central Florida, Chapman University, China Textile University, Copenhagen Business School (plenary for workshop), Durham University, University of East Anglia, Economic Science Association (Workshop in Honor of John Van Huyck), University of Edinburgh,  Emory University, European University Institute, Florida State, University of Frankfurt, Georgia State University, George Mason, Georgetown, Harvard University, University of Heidelberg, IMEBE (plenary), ITAM, University of Illinois, University of Innsbruck, Kent State University, London Economic Workshop (plenary), University of Lyon (GATE), Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium, University of Maastricht, University of Maryland, University of Melbourne, University of Michigan (Department & School of Information), University of Mississippi, Monash University, NBER, University of New South Wales, New York University, University of Nottingham, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Oxford University, Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University, Queen Mary University of London, Rutgers University, South Carolina, Southern Economic Association, University of Southampton, Spanish Game Theory Meetings, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stony Brook Game Theory Conference, University of Sydney, University Technical Sydney, Texas A&M, University of Texas-Dallas, Tinbergen Institute, University of Toronto, Tufts University, University of Valencia, University of Vienna, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, Wharton, University of Zurich

Notable Editorial and Professional Duties:

• Editorial Board: Economic Theory (2005 – 9), Experimental Economics (2007-2011)

• Editor in Chief: Experimental Economics (2012-2016)

• Director, XS/FS Cluster (2012-present)

• NSF, Economics Advisory Panel (2014-2015)

• Conference Organizer, ESA North American Meetings (2014)

• Founder and Conference Organizer, Workshop on Experimental Economics and Entrepreneurship  (2015 - present)

• Founder and Conference Organizer, UEA Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory  (2016 - present)

• Advisory Editor: Games and Economic Behavior (2017 – present)

• North American Vice President, Economic Science Association (2018 – 2022)

• Co-editor: Economic Theory (2021 - present)