Roberto Weber

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Associate Professor of Economics and Social and Decision Sciences, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Application of game theory and experiments to organizational and economic environments, behavioral economics, individual and group decision making.

Published Papers: 

• Self-Interest Through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal Agent Relationship
  American Economic Review, forthcoming.
  (With: J. Hamman, George Loewenstein)
  
  
• Managing Growth to Achieve Efficient Coordination in Large Groups
  American Economic Review, 2006.
  
  
• `Learning' With No Feedback in a Competitive Guessing Game
  Games and Economic Behavior 44, 2003; 134-144.
  
  
• Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach
  Management Science 49, 2003; 400-415.
  (With: C. Cammerer)
  
  
• Paying $1 to lose $2: Misperceptions of the value of information in predicting the performance of others
  Experimental Economics 9, 2006; 281-295.
  (With: George Loewenstein, Don Moore)
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• The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games
  Organization Science 12, 2001; 582-598.
  (With: C. Cammerer, Yuval Rottenstreich, Marc Knez)
  
  
• The Effects of Payoff Magnitude and Heterogeneity on Behavior in 2x2 Games with Unique Mixed Strategy Equilibria
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 42, 2000; 523-548.
  (With: T. Palfrey, Richard McKelvey)
  
  
• The Econometrics and Behavioral Economics of Escalation of Commitment in NBA Draft Choices
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 39, 1999; 59-82.
  (With: C. Cammerer)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Markets, Moral Hazard, and Equilibrium Selection
  August, 2007.
  (With: Shimon Kogan, Anthony Kwasnica)
  
  
• Coordination in the Presence of Asset Markets
  August, 2007.
  (With: Shimon Kogan, Anthony Kwasnica)
  
  
• From Individual to Collective Trust: An Experimental Study of Trust Transfer
  July, 2002.
  (With: William McEvily, C. Bicchieri, V. Ho)
  
  

Publications: 

• "Behavioral Economics"
  in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (ed.) Handbook of Economic Sociology, Russell Sage, New York, Y, (January, 2005).
  (With: Robyn Dawes)
  
  

Courses Taught:

• Managerial Decision-Making (45-964)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2009, Mini 6 (Section: E)
  • 2009, Mini 6 (Section: M)
  • 2007, Mini 6 (Section: M)