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I am an Associate Professor in the Brock School of Business at Samford University in Birmingham, AL.  My research interests include behavioral, experimental, labor and institutional economics.  At Samford, I teach economics and statistics. 

Publications

"ChatGPT Hallucinates Nonexistent Citations: Evidence from Economics" (2024) with Stephen Hill and Olga Shapoval. The American Economist, 69(1), 80-87. (coverage from the Wall Street Journal)

"Willingness to be Paid: Who Trains for Tech Jobs?" (2022) Labour Economics, Vol 79, 102267. (as featured in Politico Morning Tech and Marginal Revolution)  YouTube  video presentation of this paper from minute 10:00-33:30.

"How dictators use information about recipients" (2022) with Laura Razzolini. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 23:4, 408-426, DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2022.2081971 . Summary here

"Other people's money: preferences for equality in groups" (2022) with Gavin Roberts. European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 73. Summary here

"If Wages Fell During a Recession" (2022) with Daniel Houser. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  Vol. 200, 1141-1159. Working paper here. YouTube video presentation of this paper from minute 19:00-32:00.

"My Reference Point, Not Yours" (2020) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171: 297-311. YouTube video presentation of this paper from minute 33:00-41:00 

"Implementation of a New Data Analytics Curriculum: A Case Study" (2019) with Jennings B. Marshall, Steven T. Jones, Alan Blankley, Chad Carson, Cynthia Lohrke, Matt Mazzei, and Kevin Pan. Proceedings of the Academy of Economics and Finance, 42: 25-30.

"Smile, Dictator, You’re On Camera” (2017) with Matthew McMahon, Matthew Simpson and Bart Wilson. Southern Economic Journal, 84:1, 52-65.

"Economics of the World Beyond the Classroom: Two Methods for Teaching" (2017) with Steven Gjerstad, Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 16:1, 1-6.

“Information Effects in Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions” (2016),with Steven Gjerstad and David Porter. Southern Economic Journal 83:1, 126-145. 

“An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property” (2014) with Bart Wilson. Experimental Economics, 17:4, 691-716.

“Underwater Recession”  with Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith.  The American Interest, May/June 2012. 

Working Papers

"Finance and Economics Women’s (FEW) Network: Encouraging and Engaging Women in Undergraduate Programs," with Darwyyn Deyo (accepted at The Journal of Economic and Finance Education)

"Effort Transparency and Fairness," with Elif Demiral and Umit Saglam (under review)

"Do People Trust Humans More Than ChatGPT?" with William Hickman  (as featured on Marginal Revolution) (Top Downloaded Paper on SSRN for Behavioral Research)(featured on the AI in Education podcast)(under review)

"Sticky Prices as Coordination Failure: An Experimental Investigation," with David Munro