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Ben Greiner
University of New South Wales
School of Economics
Quadrangle Building, Room 3123
UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9385 9701
Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
Email: bgreiner unsw.edu.au [PGP Public Key]
My staff homepage at UNSW
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Short Curriculum Vitae
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| Employment |
| Since 09/2008 |
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Lecturer, University of New South Wales, School of Economics |
| 08/2006 |
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08/2008 |
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CLER Research Fellow, Harvard Business School |
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07/2006 |
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Research Associate (Ph.D. student) at the
Department for Economics
and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. |
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07/2003 |
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Research Fellow (Ph.D. student),
Max Planck Institute
of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group, Jena, Germany.
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| Education |
| 2006 |
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Dr. rer. pol. (Ph.D.) in Economics (s.c.l.), University of Cologne |
| 10/1996 |
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03/2002 |
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Philosophy/Cultural Sciences,
Humboldt-University Berlin |
| 10/1995 |
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03/2002 |
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Business Administration,
Humboldt-University Berlin,
2002 degree as Diplom-Kaufmann |
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| Research Interests |
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Market Design
- Strategic Behavior, Trust and Trustworthiness, Cooperation, Bargaining
- Experimental Methodology
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- From the Lab to the Field: The Economics of Trust.
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Special Issue 49, 2009, 219-242 (with Axel Ockenfels). (In German. Original title: "Vom Labor ins Feld: Die Ökonomik des Vertrauens".)
- Learning to Bid in Markets with Reputation Information.
In: W. Franz, H. J. Ramser, and M. Stadler (eds.): Experimental Economics, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Vol 38, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2009 (with Felix Lamoroux and Axel Ockenfels).
- Herding, Social Preferences and (Non-)Conformity.
Economics Letters 97(1), 2007, 74-80 (with Luca Corazzini).
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Citations on Google Scholar: 0 - Self Centered and Other Regarding Behavior in the Solidarity Game.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 62(2), 2007, 293-303 (with Susanne Büchner and Giorgio Coricelli).
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Experimental Studies on Solidarity.
Logos Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 3-8325-1337-X. 2006.
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Indirect Reciprocity in Cyclical Networks - An Experimental Study.
Journal of Economic Psychology 26(5), 2005, 711-731 (with Maria Vittoria Levati).
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An Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments.
In: Kurt Kremer, Volker Macho (Hrsg.): Forschung und wissenschaftliches Rechnen.
GWDG Bericht 63. Ges. für Wiss. Datenverarbeitung, Göttingen, 2004, 79-93.
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Citations on Google Scholar: 0 + 0 + 0 - The Virtual Laboratory Infrastructure for Controlled Online Economic Experiments.
In: Kurt Kremer, Volker Macho (Hrsg.): Forschung und wissenschaftliches Rechnen.
GWDG Bericht 62, 59-73. Ges. für Wiss. Datenverarbeitung, Göttingen 2002
(with H.-Arno Jacobsen and Carsten Schmidt).
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- Wage Transparency and Performance: A Real-Effort Experiment, U Cologne Working Paper, No. 48, March 2010
(with Axel Ockenfels and Peter Werner).
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Group versus individual decision-making: Is there a shift?
(with Attila Ambrus and Parag Pathak).
NEW VERSION AUGUST 2009 [Download]
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Engineering Trust - Reciprocity in the Production of Reputation Information
(with Gary Bolton and Axel Ockenfels).
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Citations on Google Scholar: 0 + 0 + 0 - The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-026, October 2007
(with Axel Ockenfels and Peter Werner).
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Social Communication and Discrimination - A Video Experiment
(with Werner Güth and Ro'i Zultan).
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Strategic Uncertainty in Bargaining
Older working paper version: Bounded Rationality in Bargaining Games: Do Proposers Believe That Responders Reject an Equal Split?
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The Online Recruitment System ORSEE 2.0 -
A Guide for the Organization of Experiments in Economics.
University of Cologne, Working Paper Series in Economics 10, 2004.
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| Work in Progress |
- Market Design, Reputation, Strategic Behavior
- Can You Still Make a Deal on eBay - A natural experiment (with Axel Ockenfels)
- Perceived Trustworthiness in Online Auctions - Amazon Gift Certificates Sold on eBay (with Axel Ockenfels)
- Information Efficiency and Strategic Behavior in Markets - Parimutuel Betting and Double Auctions (with René Cyranek and Anthony Ziegelmeyer)
- Bargaining, Uncertainty, Communication
- Solidarity, (Indirect) Reciprocity, Social Preferences
- One for All, All for One - Experiments on Group Solidarity in a Dynamic Drop-Out Game
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| Consulting |
eBay International; RWE Energy
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| Refereeing |
American Economic Review;
Australian Economic Papers;
Econometrica;
Economic Inquiry;
Economic Journal;
European Economic Review;
Experimental Economics; International Journal of Industrial Organization;
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics);
Journal of Economic Behavior an Organization;
Journal of Economic Psychology;
Journal of the European Economic Association;
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization;
Scandinavian Journal of Economics;
US National Science Foundation
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| Research Grants |
- Australian School of Business Research Grant, 2010.
- Australian School of Business Research Grant, 2009.
- Grant for equipment for the Experimental Laboratory at the Australian School of Business, 2008, joint with other experimenters at UNSW (Regina Betz, AJ Bostian, Mathew Chylinski, Anna Gunnthorsdottir), Australian School of Business
- Research Grant for the project "Group Decisions in Dilemma Situations: Theory, Experiment and Design", 2004, GEW Foundation Cologne, joint with Jens Grosser and Axel Ockenfels
- Grant for equipment for the Cologne Laboratory for Economic Research, 2004,
State Northrhine/Westfalia (WAP/HBFG), joint with Axel Ockenfels and
other members of his chair in Cologne
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| Talks |
2002: MPI Econ Jena, Strasbourg (ESA conf), U Halle Wittenberg (GEW conf); 2003: Humboldt-U Berlin, MPI Econ Jena, U Erfurt (ESA conf); 2004: Amsterdam (ESA conf), U Cologne; 2005: U Cologne (GEW conf), McGill U/Cirano Montréal (ESA conf); 2006: Harvard U Econ, HBS NOM, U Magdeburg (GEW conf); 2007: Harvard U Econ, HBS, Penn State U, U Arizona Tucson (ESA); 2008: 2 x ANU Canberra (RSSS, Econ & Democracy conf), Royal Holloway U London, U Copenhagen, UC Santa Barbara, U Lausanne, 2x UNSW, U Sydney; 2009: BCG Sydney, HU Berlin, U Arizona (ESA), U Canterbury (4. AWEE), U Cologne, U Melbourne ... invite me! ;-) .
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| Teaching |
- Current Term
- ECON2126 Experimental Economics
- ECON5111 Economics of Strategy
- Former Terms
- Session 1, 2009: ECON5111 Economics of Strategy [Outline]
- Session 1, 2009: ECON6308 Policy Evaluation Methods [Outline]
- Summer Term 2005 - Experimental Economics (PhD level), University of Cologne
- Winter Term 2004/2005 - Microeconomics, Excercises, Teacher Axel Ockenfels,
Undergraduate Level, University of Cologne
- Winter Term 2004/2005 - Energy Economics, Seminar, Teacher Axel Ockenfels,
University of Cologne
- Summer Term 2004 - Experimental Economics, Practical Seminar (PhD level),
University of Cologne
- Summer Term 2004 - Energy Economics, Seminar, Teacher Axel Ockenfels,
University of Cologne
- Summer Term 2003 - Economics of the Internet, Excercises, Teacher Carsten Schmidt,
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
- Winter Term 2002/03 - Experimental Economics, Seminar, Teacher Werner Güth,
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
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