Microeconomics

Managing Editor Canadian Journal of Economics, McMaster University Scholar, CESifo Research Network Fellow, Professor

Professor

My unified research theme is the development of robust competition models and their applications in various economic problems such as competing mechanism games, monotone signaling equilibrium design in two-sided matching with incomplete information, asymmetric auction design, policy analysis on corporate tax competition, childcare benefit, etc.

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Academic Director McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL), Professor

I am a behavioural and experimental economist. Broadly speaking, my research interests revolve around understanding human decision-making in economically interesting, usually strategic, situations. Some of the specific questions my research addresses include: what types of group rituals promote in-group cooperation? Are large industrial buyers able to counteract monopoly power? Are physically attractive job candidates more likely to be hired? Can insurance companies pre-fill fields on a claims form to reduce insurance fraud? Do people actually make the same labour-leisure and purchase choices when faced with theoretically equivalent taxes? Why do people still give in-kind gifts rather than cash or gift cards?

One current research project explores whether better alternatives exist to the matching mechanism that university and college co-op programs employ to match students to jobs. Another project explores whether the people who pay more for insurance feel more entitled to cheat when filing an insurance claim.