Ted Turocy - Research and CV

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Positions held

• Senior Lecturer (tenured), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, August 2010-.

• Visiting Instructor, Department of Economics and Finance, John Carroll University, July 2009-April 2010.
  Courses taught:
  Managerial Economics (MBA)
  Principles of Economics (MBA)
  Business Statistics (MBA)
  

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Texas A&M University , August 2001-May 2009.
  Courses taught:
  Fundamental Mathematics for Economists (PhD)
  Principles of Economics: Microeconomics (Honors BS/BA)
  Intermediate Microeconomics (BS/BA)
  Economics of Decision-Making and Strategy (BS/BA)

• Lecturer, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Fall 1998-99, Fall 1999-2000, Winter 2000-01.
  Courses taught:
  Accelerated Mathematical Methods for Management (MBA)

Fields of interest

Economic science; game theory, microeconomic theory, experimental economics, computational economics.

Doctoral studies

Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, August 2001.
"Computation and Robustness in Sealed-Bid Auctions"
Committee Chair: Mark Satterthwaite

Predoctoral studies

B.S. with Honors, Engineering & Applied Science/Economics (double major), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, 1994.

Awards and Grants

• "Bidding Behaviour in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions," with Todd Kaplan, Nuffield Foundation Small Grants Scheme, November 2009.

• Society for Computational Economics, Graduate Student Prize in Computational Economics, June 2001, for "Implications of Approximate Equilibrium Concepts in Sealed-Bid Auctions"

Publications

Original research

• "Using Quantal Response to Compute Nash and Sequential Equilibria." Economic Theory 42(1): 255-269, 2010.
• "Covering Your Posterior: Teaching Signaling Games Using Classroom Experiments." Journal of Economic Education 40(2): 188-199, 2009.
• "Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty." Games and Economic Behavior 62(1): 155-179, 2008.
• "Towards a Black-Box Solver for Finite Games: Finding All Nash Equilibria with Gambit and PHCpack." In Proceedings of the IMA Software for Algebraic Geometry Workshop, Michael E. Stillman, Nobuki Takayama, and Jan Verschelde, editors. New York: Springer, 2008.
• "In Search of the Last-Ups Advantage in Baseball: A Game-Theoretic Approach" Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 4(2):5, 2008.
• "On the Sufficiency of Transitive Preferences." Economics Bulletin, 4(22): 1-9, 2007.
• "Congestion Allocation Mechanisms for Distributed Networks: An Experimental Study"" with Yan Chen and Laura Razzolini. Economic Theory 33(1): 121-143, 2007.
• "Framing the First-Price Auction," with Elizabeth Watson and Raymond C. Battalio. Experimental Economics 10(1): 37-52, 2007.
• "A Dynamic Homotopy Interpretation of the Logistic Quantal Response Equilibrium Correspondence." Games and Economic Behavior 51(2): 243-263, 2005.
• "Offensive Performance, Omitted Variables, and the Value of Speed in Baseball." Economics Letters 89: 283-286, 2005.
• "Intertemporal Speculation Under Uncertain Future Demand: Experimental Results," with Charles R. Plott. In Understanding Strategic Interaction: Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten, Springer, 1997.

Survey articles

• "Software for Solving Noncooperative Strategic Form Games." In Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. New York: Wiley, forthcoming 2010.
• "Computing Equilibria in Finite Games". In A Positive Change: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey's Most Influential Writings, Alt, Aldrich, and Lupia, editors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 475-487, 2007.
• "Game Theory", with Bernhard von Stengel In Encyclopedia of Information Systems Volume 2. San Diego: Elsevier Science (USA), 403-420, 2002.

Computer software

• "Gambit: A System for Constructing and Analyzing Finite Games", with Richard D. McKelvey and Andrew M. McLennan.  http://www.gambit-project.org

Typescripts

Game theory, micro theory, and computation

• "Price and Wage Dispersion Due to Heterogeneous Arrival of Trade Opportunities," with Adi Mayer.
• "The Theory of Theft: An Inspection Game Model of the Stolen Base Play in Baseball."
• "A Numerical Investigation of the Multiply-and-Conquer Game."

Laboratory experiments in applied micro theory

• "Contributions and Crowd-Out of Public Goods: Competing Models and Experimental Evidence," with Timothy J. Gronberg, R. Andrew Luccasen, and John B. Van Huyck.
• "Raising Revenue with Lotteries: A Laboratory Experiment," with Wooyoung Lim and Alexander Matros.
• "The Games That Experimental Subjects Play: The Utility of Payoffs," with Glenn W. Harrison.
• "Crowd-Out in One-Shot Public Goods Games: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Strategic Structure," with R. Andrew Luccasen. [subject instructions]

Pure theory and methodology in laboratory experiments

• "Reservation Values in Laboratory Auctions: Context and Bidding Behavior," with Elizabeth Watson.
• "Link Formation in Networks Using Case-Based Decision-Making: A Laboratory Experiment," with Elizabeth Watson. [subject instructions]
• "Bidding Behaviour in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions," (slides) with Todd Kaplan.
• "Trust and Reciprocity in an Endogenous Social Context," with Brian O'Quinn.

Presentations, referee experience

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