Vitae

Since 2013 Associate Professor, School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide

2004 – 2012   Associate Professor, Dept of Economics and Management, University of Strasbourg

·         On leave at the University of New South Wales, School of Economics : 2010-2012

·         On leave at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) : 2008

2001 – 2004   Research Officer at the Institute of Economic Analysis, Barcelona

1998 – 2001    Research Fellow of the European Union ENDEAR Programme

·         Institute of Economic Analysis, Barcelona : 2000 – 2001                               

·         Department of Economics, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona : 1999 - 2000

·         Laboratory for Experimental Economics, University of Bonn : 1998 - 1999

1995 – 1998    Lecturer, School of Economics, University of New South Wales

Education

2010             ‘Habilitation’ in Economics, University of Strasbourg

·Report Title: “Structure and Behavior” (in French)

                         Garantor: Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira

                         Committee: Werner Güth, Alan Kirman, Florence Naegelen, Bernard Ruffieux, Marie-Claire Villeval and Marc Willinger.

1991 – 1995    Doctoral studies in Economics, European University Institute, Florence

Thesis Title : “Three Essays on Competitive Bidding” (completed in June 1997)

                        Supervisor : Alan Kirman

                  Committee : Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Ron Harstad and Louis Phlips.

1990                Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies “Mathematical Economics and Econometrics”, GREQAM

1990                Magistère Ingénieur Economiste, Aix-Marseille University and GREQAM

Fields of Research

                        Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organisation, Market Design, Microeconomics.

Teaching Experience

      Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Managerial Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Advanced Economic Analysis, Auction Theory, Game Theory, Contract Theory, Environmental Policy, Mathematics for Economists.

Visiting Positions

Sept.- Dec. 2017            GREDEG, University of Cote d’Azur, Nice

December 2014             Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

April 2014                        GREQAM, Aix-Marseille School of Economics

September 2012           Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

Jan. - Dec. 2008             CNRS Study Leave 

May 2005                        Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

March 2003                     GREQAM, University of Aix-Marseille III

June 2002                       Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

September 2001             CentER, Tilburg University

April 2001                       CentER, Tilburg University

Oct. - Dec. 1998             School of Economics, Free University of Bolzano

July 1998                        CentER, Tilburg University

Publications

• Relaxing the symmetry assumption in participation games: A specification test for cluster-heterogeneity (with Alan Kirman and François Laisney), Experimental Economics, forthcoming (SSRN WP#3233147).

• Strategic ambiguity and risk in alternating pie-sharing experiments (with Anna Conte and Werner Güth), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, forthcoming.

• An indirect evolutionary justification of risk neutral bidding in fair division games (with Werner Güth), International Journal of Game Theory, 2021, 50(3), 63-74.

• Observational and reinforcement pattern-learning: An exploratory study (with Nobi Hanaki and Alan Kirman), European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 1-21.

• Believing in correlated types in spite of independence: An indirect evolutionary analysis (with Werner Güth), Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 1-3.

• Loss aversion and learning to bid (with Dennis Dittrich, Werner Güth and Martin Kocher), Economica, 2012, 79(314), 226-257.

• Organisational structure, communication and group ethics (with Matthew Ellman), American Economic Review, 2010, 100(5), 2478-2491.

• Competition with forward contracts: A laboratory analysis motivated by electricity market design (with Jordi Brandts and Arthur Schram), Economic Journal, 2008, 118, 192-214.

• Bidding behavior at sequential first-price auctions with(out) supply uncertainty: A laboratory analysis (with Tibor Neugebauer), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 63(1), 55-72.

• Auctions for government securities: A laboratory comparison of the discriminatory, uniform and Spanish designs (with Klaus Abbink and Jordi Brandts), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 61(2), 284-303.

• [Book Review] “Auctioning Public Assets: Analysis and Alternatives”, by Maarten C.W. Janssen (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, for The World Economy, 2005, 28(10), 1559.  

• An experimental test of design alternatives for the British 3G/UMTS auction (with Klaus Abbink, Bernd Irlenbush, Bettina Rockenbach, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Reinhard Selten), European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (2), 505-530. 

[Reprinted in “New Developments In Experimental Economics”, Enrica Carbone and Chris Starmer (eds), Volume I, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.]

• On the impact of Low-Balling: Experimental results in asymmetric auctions, International Journal of Game Theory, 2002, 31(1), 69-89.

• Pareto’s compensation principle (with Murray Kemp), Social Choice and Welfare, 1999, 16(3), 441-444.

[Reprinted in “International Trade and National Welfare”, Murray Kemp (ed.), Routledge 2001.]

Work in Progress

• Repeated multi-unit auctions, random supply, and quantity information policies (with Tibor Neugebauer and Nobi Hanaki) 

• Dynamic level-k vs decision-making models of alternating pie-sharing games: A laboratory study (with Anna Conte, Werner Güth and Jacopo Temperini) Rationalizing (non-)equilibrium bidding in maximum value auctions without beliefs about others’ behavior (with Hang Wu), SSRN WP #3301838.

• An individual decision-making approach to bidding in first-price and all-pay auctions (with Hang Wu), SSRN WP #3233164.

• Structural analysis of first-price auction data: Insights from the laboratory (with Andres Romeu), SSRN WP #386002.

• Asymmetric multiple object first-price auctions, SSRN WP #3981186.

• Elicited bid functions for (a)symmetric first-price auctions (with Karim Sadrieh), SSRN WP #556077

• Sequential descending-price auctions with asymmetric buyers: evidence from a fish market, SSRN WP #3408390

• Sequential auctions with supply uncertainty, SSRN WP #301288.

Presentations

Conferences and Workshops: Australian and New-Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics (Sydney 2010, Monash 2011,2018 , Adelaide 2014, Queensland, 2016); Economic Science Association (Tucson 1996, 2009, Amsterdam 2000, Barcelona 2001, Strasbourg 2002, Erfurt 2003, Hawaï 2014, Sydney 2015); Econometric Society (New-Orleans, 1997); European Economic Association (Lausanne, 2001); Louis-André Gérard-Varet Days (Marseille, 2013), Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Aix-en Provence, 2014) and the 11th Workshop on Complexity: Theory and Experimental Analyses (Nice, 2017).

Invited presentations: Centre for Economic Perspectives and Research (London, 2001); EHESS (CAMS, 2017), ESEI-UTS Workshop on Market Design in Honour of John Ledyard (Sydney, 2014); Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris, 2007); Max Planck Institute (Jena, 2001, 2002, 2012); Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam, 1999); Supélec (Paris, 2006); Workshop on Auction Markets (Louvain-La-Neuve CORE, 1999, Brussels, 2000); University of Aix-Marseille II (GREQAM, 1999, 2003, 2009, 2014, 2017), Adelaide (2012), Alicante (2004), Bonn (1999), Cologne (2017), Côte d’Azur (GREDEG, 2017, 2023), Franche-Comté (CRESE, 2009), Gröningen (2001), Hamburg (2017), Luxembourg (2008), Lyon (GATE, 2009), Magdeburg (2017), Melbourne (1997, 2021), Monash (2015, 2021), Montpellier (LAMETA, 2017), Murcia (2008), New South Wales (1995, 2010), Nice (2016, 2017), Pompeu Fabra (1998), Purdue (Krannert School of Management, 2003), Queensland (2018), Queensland University of Technology (2022), South Australia (2011), Sydney (1996, 2010), University of Technology Sydney (2011, 2016), Tilburg (CentER, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), UNSW (1997, 2011), Vienna (WU, 2017), West French Indies (CEREGMIA, 2010), Western Australia (2011, 2012) and Woolongong (2011, 2018).

Grants

2014-2019     “Information quality in auctions of multiple objects”

Australian Research Council, Discovery Project #140102949.

2008               "Renovation of the Laboratory for Experimental Economics”

Scientific Council of the University of Strasbourg

2004-2006      “Market Structures and Individual Behavior”

Scientific Council of the University of Strasbourg

1997                “Price Formation and Market Structure”

University of New South Wales (Special Research Grant)

1996                “Laboratory Experiments on Asymmetric Auctions”

University of New South Wales (Special Research Grant)

• PhD Supervisions

Since 2013 (University of Adelaide),

• Rui Zhang (2018 - 2023 , co-supervised)

• Mia Tam (2018 - 2023, co-supervised): "Price setting rules and competition"

• Xue (Sookie) Zhang (2013 - 2018, co-supervised): "Three essays on experimental economics" (now @  Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China)

• Ye (Hannah) Han (2013 - 2018): "Three essays on first-price auctions with independent private values" (now @ Essentials Services Commission of South Australia) 

• Qin (Kim) Wu (2013 - 2018, co-supervised): "Three essays on unethical behaviour and deterrence mechanisms in contests" (now @ RMIT - Melbourne)

Organisation of summer schools and workshops / conferences

2014 Co-organiser of the Australia New-Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics (ANZWEE), University of Adelaide (October 1-3)

2012 Co-organiser of the Workshop on Auctions and Market Design at the Australian School of Business, UNSW, Sydney (March 16-17)

2010 Member of the Scientific Committee of the French Association of Experimental Economics (AFSEE).

2007 – 2010 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Experimental Economics Days.

2008 Co-organiser of the Doctoral Workshop on Game Theory at the University of Konstanz (27-28 October)

2006 Organiser of the LEA Workshop on Coordination and Market Experiments at BETA, Strasbourg (March 10-11)

Co-organiser of the 8th Experimental Economics Days at University of Strasbourg (June 1-2)

1999 – 2000       Co-organiser and Lecturer at the ENDEAR Summer Schools (Bari, 1999 and Barcelona, 2000)

1998 Organiser of a workshop on “Learning and Interaction in Economics” at University of New South Wales (April)

Reviewing

Journals: American Economic Review, Australian Journal of Management, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Economic Record, Economic Theory, Economic Theory Bulletin, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Nature (Scientific Reports), Review of Finance, Revue Économique and Social Choice and Welfare. 

Institutions: European Research Council Advanced Grants, Australian Research Council (Australia), Direccion Adjunta de la Investigacion Cientifica (Mexico), Economic and Social Research Council (UK), National Research Foundation (Korea).

Awards

2010 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the American Economic Review. 

2009-2013 Prime d’Excellence Scientifique (Premium for Scientific Excellence) jointly awarded by the French National Council of Universities and the Scientific Council of the University of Strasbourg.

Administrative Service

2019 –  2021   School of Economics Bachelor of Economics Program Coordinator (Adelaide)

2013 –  2017   School of Economics Associate Head of Research (Adelaide)

2013 & 2019            Coordinator of the School of Economics Seminar Series (Adelaide)

2005 – 2010    Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Economics of Strasbourg (LEES)

 2005 – 2010    Elected member of BETA’s Board of Research (Strasbourg)

 2005 – 2010    Elected member of the Department of Economics Recruiting Committee (Strasbourg)

 2006 – 2008    Elected member of the Department of Economics Board of Teaching (Strasbourg)

 2007 – 2010    Pedagogical Responsible of Masters diplomas in Economics (Strasbourg)

Miscellaneous

Consulting for London Economics Ltd. : April 1999

Languages: French and English (fluent), Dutch, Greek and Spanish (basic)