SHACHAR KARIV
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
kariv[at]berkeley[dot]edu
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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Economics, New York University, 2003.
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M.A., Economics, New York University, 2000.
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B.A., Economics, Tel
Aviv University, 1998.
CURRENT POSITIONS
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Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Jul
2010-present.
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Director, UC Berkeley, Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab),
Jul 2008-present.
PAST POSITIONS
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Associate
Professor (with tenure), UC Berkeley,
Department of Economics, Jul 2008-Jul 2010.
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Assistant
Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Jul 2003-Jun
2008.
VISITING
POSITIONS
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Professor II, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Department
of Economics, Aug 2012-Jul 2013
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Professor, Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) Herzliya, School
of Economics, Oct 2011-Jul 2012.
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Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Jul-Dec 2010,
Jul-Dec 2011, Jul-Dec 2012.
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Associate
Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Jul-Dec 2009.
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Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Jun 2009.
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Professor, European University Institute, Department of Economics, May-Jun 2008.
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Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Sep 2005-Aug
2006.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
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Researcher, The Center for
Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Jul
2011-present.
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Board of Editors,
America Economic Review, Apr
2011-present.
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Co-Editor, The B.E. Journal
of Theoretical Economics, Sep 2010-Dec 2012.
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Associate Editor,
Quantitative Economics, Jul
2009-present.
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Associate Editor,
Management Science, Jan
2009-Dec 2011.
RESEARCH
Published and
Forthcoming Papers
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Observational
Learning Under Imperfect Information (with Boğaçhan
Çelen, Columbia B-School). Games and Economic Behavior, March 2004, 47(1), pp. 72-86.
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Distinguishing Informational Cascades from Herd Behavior in
the Laboratory (with Boğaçhan Çelen, Columbia
B-School). American Economic Review, June 2004, 94(3), pp. 484-497.
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An Experimental Test of Observational Learning under
Imperfect Information (with Boğaçhan Çelen, Columbia B-School). Economic
Theory, October 2005, 26(3), pp. 677-699.
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Behavioral Aspects of Learning in Social Networks: An
Experimental Study (with Syngjoo
Choi, UCL, and Douglas Gale,
NYU). Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Volume 13, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2005, edited
by John Morgan.
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Financial Networks (with Douglas Gale, NYU). American
Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2007, 97(2), pp. 99-103.
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Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New
Tool Kit (with Syngjoo
Choi, UCL, Ray
Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Douglas
Gale, NYU). American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2007, 97(2), pp. 153-158.
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Individual Preferences for Giving (with Ray Fisman, Columbia
B-School, and Daniel
Markovits, Yale Law School). American Economic Review, December 2007,
97(5), pp. 1858-1876.
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Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under
Uncertainty (with Syngjoo
Choi, UCL, Ray
Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Douglas
Gale, NYU). American Economic Review, December 2007, 97(5), pp. 1921-1938.
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Sequential Equilibrium in Monotone Games: Theory-Based
Analysis of Experimental Data (with Syngjoo Choi, UCL, and Douglas Gale, NYU). Journal of Economic Theory, December
2008, 143(1), pp. 302–330.
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Trading in Networks: A Normal Form Game Experiment (with Douglas Gale, NYU). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August
2009, 1(2), pp. 114-132.
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An Experimental Test of Advice and Social Learning (with Boğaçhan
Çelen, Columbia B-School, and Andrew Schotter,
NYU). Management Science, October
2010, 56(10), pp. 1678-1701.
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Network Architecture, Salience and Coordination (with Syngjoo Choi, UCL, Douglas Gale, NYU, and Thomas Palfrey, Caltech).
Games and Economic Behavior, September 2011, 73(1), pp. 76-90.
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods
Experiments (with Jeffrey
Carpenter, Middlebury College, and Andrew
Schotter, NYU). Review of Economic Design, September 2012, 16(2-3),
pp. 175-191.
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Social Learning in Networks: A Quantal Response Equilibrium
Analysis of Experimental Data (with Syngjoo Choi, UCL, and Douglas Gale, NYU). Review of
Economic Design, September 2012, 16(2-3), pp. 93-118.
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An
Old Measurement of Decision-making Quality Sheds New Light on Paternalism
(with Dan Silverman,
Arizona State University). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, February 2013, 169(1), pp. 29-44.
Working Papers
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Who is (More) Rational?, 2013 (with Syngjoo Choi, UCL, Wieland Müller,
Tilburg University, and Dan
Silverman, Arizona State University). Revise and resubmitted, American
Economic Review.
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Choosing a President: Does Character Matter?, 2013 (with Bill Zame, UCLA).
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How Did the Great Recession Impact Social Preferences?, 2013
(with Ray Fisman,
Columbia B-School, and Pam Jakiela, University of Maryland).
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Estimating Ambiguity Aversion in a Portfolio Choice
Experiment, 2011 (with David Ahn, Berkeley, Syngjoo Choi, UCL, and Douglas Gale, NYU). Revise and
resubmit, Quantitative Economics.
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Exposure to Ideology and Distributional Preferences, 2009
(with Ray Fisman,
Columbia B-School, and Daniel
Markovits, Yale Law School). [under revision]
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Piercing
the Veil of Ignorance, 2008 (with Bill
Zame, UCLA). [under revision]
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Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under
Uncertainty, 2006 (with Syngjoo
Choi, UCL, Ray
Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Douglas
Gale, NYU). [under revision]
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Overconfidence
and Informational Cascades, 2005. [under revision]
Other Publications
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Book Review of Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in
Strategic Interaction. By Colin F. Camerer. Princeton University Press. Economica, May 2004, 71, pp. 319–329.
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Learning in
Networks (with Douglas Gale,
NYU), forthcoming in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition,
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Book Review of
Markets, Games, & Strategic Behavior. By Charles A. Holt. Journal of
Economic Psychology, June 2007,
28(3), pp. 414-415.
AWARDS
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The Earl F. Cheit Award For Excellence In
Teaching, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2012.
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Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship,
2009.
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Distinguished
Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, Division of Social Sciences, 2006-7.
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Outstanding
Advising Award, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Graduate Economics Association,
2006-7.
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The Dean’s
Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences,
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The Richard Crowell
Memorial Prize Paper Competition (with Boğaçhan
Çelen, Columbia B-School), 2002.
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The James Arthur
Fellowship in social sciences, New York
University, Graduate School of Arts
and Science, 2002.
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Outstanding
Teaching Award (Golden Dozen) in recognition of excellence in teaching and
contributions to undergraduate education, New
York University, College of Arts and
Science, 2002.
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The Dean’s
Outstanding Teaching Award in Social Sciences, New
York University, Graduate School of
Arts and Science, 2001.
MAJOR GRANTS
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Center for Equitable Growth (CEG).
Recovering Social Preferences: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment, 2012-13.
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Center for Equitable Growth (CEG).
Is there a development gap in decision-making quality?,
2012-13.
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Alfred P. Sloan. To advance measurement of
income, spending, assets and debt by creating and analyzing a new database of
high-quality daily data on actual transactions and account balances of
individuals (with Dan
Silverman, Arizona State University, Matthew Shapiro, University
of Michigan, and Steven
Tadelis, UC Berkeley), 2012-2014.
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Center for Equitable Growth (CEG).
Wealth Differentials and Decision‐Making
Quality: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment, 2011-12.
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The Center for Information Technology Research in
the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Creating Mobile Laboratories for Studying
Human Behavior (with Raja
Sengupta, UC Berkeley, and Joan Walker, UC
Berkeley), 2011
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Multidisciplinary
University Research Initiative (MURI). Multi-Layers and Multi-Resolution
Networks of Interacting Agents in Adversarial Environments, 2010-15.
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National Science
Foundation. Archetypes and Prototypes of Decisions under Uncertainty (with Douglas Gale, NYU), 2010-13.
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Center on the Economics and Demography of
Aging (CEDA). The Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior
under Uncertainty: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment (with Dan Silverman, Arizona State
University), 2010.
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Coleman Fund Risk Management Research
Center. Recovering Risk Preferences, 2008-9
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National Science
Foundation. Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under
Uncertainty (with Ray
Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Douglas
Gale, NYU), 2006-7.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
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Israeli and US
citizen born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Dec 17 1970.
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Married (Hilla Frenkel-Kariv) with three children (Danya,
Omri and Yotam).
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