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VITA Daniel Houser July, 2020 VITA Daniel Houser July, 2020 Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science Contact Information George Mason University, MSN 1B2 Office (Economics): (703) 993 - 1150 Fairfax, VA. 22015 Office (ICES): (703) 993 - 4856 E-mail: [email protected] Citizenship: U.S.A. http://mason.gmu.edu/~dhouser Education Degree Field Institution Year Ph.D. Economics University of Minnesota 1998 B.A. Mathematics University of Wisconsin at Madison 1989 B.A. Mathematical Economics University of Wisconsin at Madison 1989 Employment 2014 - present Director, TFAS Programs at George Mason University 2009 - present Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University 2008 - present Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University 2006 - present Professor of Economics, George Mason University 2003 - 2004 Special Volunteer, National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2006 Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), George Mason University 2002 Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University of Arizona 1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arizona Editorial Service 2017-present Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2015-present Editorial board, Experimental Economics 2015-present Editorial board, Journal of the Economic Science Association 2014-present Editor, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 2013-present Academic Editor, PLoS ONE 2009-present Editor, Neuroeconomics NEP working paper archive 2001-present Editor, Experimental Economics NEP working paper archive 2011-2018 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 2012-2018 Associate Editor, Management Science 2012-2014 Associate Editor, Journal of Socio-Economics 2012-2018 Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2010- 2018 Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2005-2012 Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Highlighted Publications (One Per Year) 1998 "A Computable General Equilibrium Model for the Study of Political Economy", with John Freeman. American Journal of Political Science. 42:2 628-660. 2001 “A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange”, with Kevin McCabe, Lee Ryan, Vernon Smith and Theodore Trouard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 98:20, September. 11832-11835. Noted by the New York Times as the first Neuroeconomics study of economic exchange. 2002 “Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments”, with Robert Kurzban. American Economic Review. September, 92:4, 1062-1069. Reprinted in “The New Behavioral Economics”, E. Kahlil, (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2009. 2003 "Bayesian Analysis of a Dynamic Stochastic Model of Labor Supply and Saving”, Journal of Econometrics. April, 113:2, 289-335. 2004 “Behavior in a dynamic decision problem: An analysis of experimental evidence using a Bayesian type classification algorithm”, with Michael Keane and Kevin McCabe. Econometrica, 72:3 (May), 781-822. 2005 “Emotion expression in human punishment behavior”, with Erte Xiao. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(20), 7398-7401. Reprinted in “The New Behavioral Economics”, E. Kahlil, (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2009. 2006 “Reputation in auctions: Theory, and evidence from eBay”, with John Wooders. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15(2), 353-370. Selected as one of the 30 most influential papers published in Marketing, Strategy and Economics on the topic of e-commerce, and reprinted in two separate volumes of “The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics”: The Economics of E-Commerce, Michael Baye and John Morgan (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2017. The Economics of Reputation, Jill McCluskey and Jason Winfree (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2017. 2007 “Disposition, History and Contributions in a Public Goods Experiment”, with Anna Gunnthorsdottir and Kevin McCabe. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 62(2), 304-315. 2008 “When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation”, with Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith. Games and Economic Behavior. 62(2), 509-532. 2009 “Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange”, with Jian Li, Erte Xiao and Read Montague. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(39), 16835-16840. 2010 “Emotion regulation and decision making under risk and uncertainty”, with Renata Heilman, Liviu G. Crişan, Mircea Miclea and Andrei C. Miu. Emotion, 10:2, 257-265 2011 “Classification of Natural Language Messages using a Coordination Game”, with Erte Xiao, Experimental Economics. 14:1, 1-14. (Lead volume article). 2012 “Fairness and Cheating”, with Stefan Vetter and Joachim Winter. European Economic Review, 56:8, 1645-1655. 2013 “Analysis of nonstationary dynamics in the financial system”, with Samar K. Guharay, Gaurav S. Thakur, Fred J. Goodman and Scott L. Rosen. Economics Letters, 454-457. 2014 "Dissociable Contribution Of Prefrontal And Striatal Dopaminergic Genes To Learning In Economic Games", with Ming Hsu, Eric Set, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(26), 9615-9620. 2015 "Growing Stars: A Laboratory Analysis of Network Formation", with Rong Rong. Jounral of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117, 380-394. 2016 "Dishonesty: From Parents to Children", with John List, Marco Piovesan, Anya Samek and Joachim Winter. European Economic Review, 82, 242-254. 2017 “An Experimental Analysis of Acquired Impulse Control Among Adult Humans Intolerant to Alcohol”, with Jianxin Wang and Yulei Rao. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114:6, 1299-1304. 2018 “Leverage Constraints and the Law of One Price”, with Marco Cipriani and Ana Fostel, Journal of Finance, 73 (6), 2757-2786. 2019 “Demanding or deferring: An experimental analysis of the economic value of communication with attitude,” with Siyu Wang. Games and Economic Behavior. 115, 381-395 All Refereed Publications 2019 “When are women willing to lead: The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks,” with Jingnan Chen. Leadership Quarterly. 30 (6), 101340 2019 “Demanding or deferring: An experimental analysis of the economic value of communication with attitude,” with Siyu Wang. Games and Economic Behavior. 115, 381-395 2019 “Why trust out-groups? The role of punishment under uncertainty,” with Xiaofei Pan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 156, 236-254 2019 “Cheating: Perceptions and profits,” with Li Hao. Forthcoming in A. Bucciol and N. Montinari (Eds.), Dishonesty in Behavioral Econonomics, Elsevier. 2019 “Broken promises and hidden partnerships: An experiment,” with Jingnan Chen. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 157, 754-774. 2018 “Leverage Constraints and the Law of One Price,” with Marco Cipriani and Ana Fostel. Journal of Finance. 73(6), 2757-2786 2018 “Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory,” with Daniel Schunk, Joachim Winter and Erte Xiao. Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 329-344. 2018 “Trust in the executive: Requiring consensus and turn-taking in the experimental lab,” with T. Clark Durant, Michael Weintraub and Shuwen Li. Journal of Peace Research. 55(5): 609-624. 2018 “Revisiting gender differences in Ultimatum bargaining: Experimental evidence from the US and China. Journal of the Economic Science Association. 4(2), 180-190. 2018 “Culture, gender and asset prices: Experimental evidence from the US and China,” with Jianxin Wang and Xu Hui. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 155, 253-287. 2018 “Social Exposure and Trustworthiness: Experimental Evidence,” with Jianxin Wang, Yulei Rao and Wei Bao. Economics Letters, 162, 73-75. 2018 “Delagating altruism: Towards an understanding of agency in charitable giving,” with Luigi Butera. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 155: 99-109. 2018 “From models to experiments: James Buchanan and Charles Plott,” with Gil Hersch, in R. Wagner (Ed.), James Buchanan: Remaking Economics: Eminent Post-War Economists. Palgrave- Macmillon, Cham. 2017 “An Experimental Analysis of Acquired Impulse Control Among Adult Humans Intolerant to Alcohol”, with Jianxin Wang and Yulei Rao. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114:6, 1299-1304. 2017 “Perceptions, Intentions and Cheating”, with Li Hao. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 133, 52-73. 2017 “Public Choice Issues in International Collective Action: Global Warming Regulation”, with Gary Libecap. In J. Hall (Ed.), Explorations in Public Sector Economics. p. 13-34. 2017 “Promises or Lies: Can Observers Detect Deception in Written Messages”, with Jingnan Chen. Experimental Economics. 20(2), 396-414. 2016 “Beware of Popular Kids Bearing Gifts: A Framed Field Experiment,” with Jingnan Chen, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 132, 104-120. 2016 “Social Approval, Competition and Cooperation”, with Xiaofei Pan. Experimental Economics. Forthcoming. 2016 “Migration, Risk and Uncertainty: A Field Experiment in China”, with Li Hao, Mao Lei & Marie Claire Villeval. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 121, 126-140. 2016 "Money or Friends: Social Identity and Deception in Networks", with Rong Rong. European Economic Review, 90, 56-66. 2016 "Dishonesty: From Parents to Children", with John List, Marco Piovesan, Anya Samek and Joachim Winter. European Economic Review, 82, 242-254. 2016 “Seller Reputation and
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