John Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Rutgers University-Camden
327 Armitage Hall
311 North 5th Street
Camden, New Jersey
08102 USA
(856) 225-6319
smithj@camden.rutgers.edu
Link to personal website: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~smithj
Education:
Princeton University, Ph.D., Economics, 2007
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Economics and Astronomy, 1997
Teaching Course Information:
50-220-308 Managerial Economics
50-220-321 Applied Game theory
Research Interests:
Microeconomic Theory
Applied Microeconomics
Behavioral Economics
Experimental Economics
Communication
Cognitive Load
Political Economics
Cognitive Dissonance
Social Identity
Publications:
Reputation, Social Identity and Social Conflict, Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.
Ethnic Fragmentation and Police Spending, Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18(4): 329-332, with Olugbenga Ajilore.
Improving Children's Healthcare through State Health Insurance Programs: An Emerging Need, Health Policy, 2011, 99(1): 72-82, with Chia-Ching Chen, Tetsuji Yamada and I-Ming Chiu.
Imperfect Memory and the Preference for Increasing Payments, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009, 165(4): 684-700.
Cognitive Dissonance and the Overtaking Anomaly: Psychology in the Principal-Agent Relationship, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009, 38(4): 684-690.
Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children in the USA, Applied Economics, 2009, 41(4): 437-450, with Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Tadashi Yamada and I-Ming Chiu.
Working Papers:
Towards an Understanding of the Endogenous Nature of Identity in Games, with Katarina Bezrukova, under review
Not So Cheap Talk: Costly and Discrete Communication, with Johanna Hertel, under review
The Endogenous Nature of the Measurement of Social Preferences, under review
Preference for Increasing Wages: How Do People Value Various Streams of
Income? with Sean Duffy, under review
Costly and Discrete Communication: An Experimental Investigation, with Sean Duffy and Tyson Hartwig, under review
“White Men Can’t Jump,” But Would You Bet On It? with Deniz Igan and Marcelo Pinheiro, under review
Cognitive Load and the Multi-player Prisoner’s Dilemma: Are There Brains in
Games? with Sean Duffy, under review
Too smart to be selfish? Measures of intelligence, social preferences and consistency, with Chia-Ching Chen, Tetsuji Yamada and I-Ming Chiu, under review
Does Voting on Compensation Increase Team Effort, with Tyson Hartwig and Sean Duffy, under review
Works in Progress:
Strategic Sophistication and Cognitive Load, with Sean Duffy
Communication Costs with Noise
The Self-Perception of Laziness
A Model of Advice with Communication Costs
Social Identity and Social Preferences
Conferences and Workshops:
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick NJ, October 2011.
Drexel University, Department of Economics, Philadelphia, October 2011.
International Association for Research in Economic Psychology/Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics World Meeting, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, July 2011.
7th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Barcelona, April 2011.
ASSA Meetings, Denver, January 2011.
ASSA Meetings, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Poster Session Organizer, Denver, January 2011.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics, September 2010.
Economic Science Association Conference, University of Copenhagen, July 2010.
Midwestern Theory Meetings, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, May 2010.
Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory Conference, Newport Beach CA, May 2010.
Eastern Economics Association Conference, Philadelphia, February 2010.
ASSA Meetings, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Poster Session Organizer, Atlanta, January 2010.
European Economics Association and Econometric Society European Meeting, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, August 2009.
Stony Brook Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, July 2009.
20th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, July 2009.
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics/International Association for Research in Economic Psychology Joint Conference, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 2009.
5th Spain, Italy, Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory, VU University Amsterdam, July 2009.
Economic Science Association Conference, Washington DC, June 2009.
Eastern Economics Association Conference, New York, February 2009.
ASSA Meetings, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Poster Session Organizer, San Francisco, January 2009.
International Association for Research in Economic Psychology/Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics World Meeting, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, September 2008.
Economic Science Association Conference, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, June 2008.
Rutgers University-Camden, Business School, Organizational Behavior Seminar, Camden NJ, February 2008.
ASSA Meetings, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Poster Session Participant, New Orleans, January 2008.
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Conference, New York University, May 2007.
Midwest Economics Association Conference, Minneapolis, March 2007.
Australian National University, School of Economics, Canberra, Australia, February 2006.
Massey University, Department of Commerce, Albany, New Zealand, February 2006.
Oberlin College, Department of Economics, Oberlin OH, February 2006.
Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Economics, Camden NJ, February 2006.
Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Central European University, Budapest, July 2005.
Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference on Behavioral Approaches to Finance, Economics and Marketing, Yale University, New Haven CT, May 2005.
Professional and Teaching Experience:
Professor, Applied Game Theory, Economics 366, Rutgers University-Camden, Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Professor, Managerial Economics, Economics 308, Rutgers University-Camden, Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Professor, Intermediate Microeconomics, Economics 203, Rutgers University-Camden, Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Professor, Principles of Microeconomics, Economics 102, Rutgers University-Camden, Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Supervisor, Independent Study, Economics 491, Rutgers University-Camden, Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
Supervisor, Senior Thesis Advisor, Rutgers University-Camden, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
Lecturer, Junior Paper Advisor, Princeton University, Fall 2003- Spring 2004.
Teaching Assistant for Professor Bogan, Economics and Public Policy, WWS 307, Princeton University, Fall 2003.
Teaching Assistant for Professor Bogan, Description and Analysis of Price Systems, Economics 102, Princeton University, Spring 2003.
Teaching Assistant for Professor Cherkes, Introduction to Finance, Economics 201, Princeton University, Fall 2002, Fall 2001.
Teaching Assistant for Professor Dixit, Games of Strategy, Economics 199, Princeton University, Spring 2002.
Research Assistant for Professor Massimo Morelli, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton NJ, Fall 2001-Spring 2002.
Teacher, Algebra I, Algebra II and Junior Varsity Baseball Coach, David Starr Jordan High School, Los Angeles CA, Fall 1997-Spring 1998.
Professional and University Service:
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Treasurer, September 2010-Present
Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty Senate, Fall 2007-Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Grants:
Rutgers Research Council Grant #202227, July 2011
Rutgers Research Council Grant #202171, July 2010
Rutgers Research Council Grant #202084, July 2009
Rutgers Research Council Grant #202344, July 2008
Rutgers Initial Research Grant, August 2006
Grants Supervised:
Rutgers-Camden, Undergraduate Research Grant, Tyson Hartwig, May 2010
Referee and Reviewing Service:
American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Oxford University Press, Social Science Journal
Senior Thesis Supervision:
Tyson Hartwig, Rutgers University-Camden, Fall 2010-Spring 2011, University of British Columbia Graduate School, Department of Economics.