SHACHAR KARIV
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics

kariv[at]berkeley[dot]edu

 

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

-           Ph.D., Economics, New York University, 2003.

-           M.A., Economics, New York University, 2000.

-           B.A., Economics, Tel Aviv University, 1998.

 

CURRENT POSITIONS

-           Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Jul 2010-present.

-           Director, UC Berkeley, Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab), Jul 2008-present.

 

PAST POSITIONS

-        Associate Professor (with tenure), UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Jul 2008-Jul 2010.

-        Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Jul 2003-Jun 2008.

 

VISITING POSITIONS

-           Professor II, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics, Aug 2012-Jul 2013

-           Professor, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, School of Economics, Oct 2011-Jul 2012.

-           Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Jul-Dec 2010, Jul-Dec 2011, Jul-Dec 2012.

-           Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Jul-Dec 2009.

-           Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Jun 2009.

-           Professor, European University Institute, Department of Economics, May-Jun 2008.

-           Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Sep 2005-Aug 2006.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

-           Researcher, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Jul 2011-present.

-           Board of Editors, America Economic Review, Apr 2011-present.

-           Co-Editor, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Sep 2010-Dec 2012.

-           Associate Editor, Quantitative Economics, Jul 2009-present.

-           Associate Editor, Management Science, Jan 2009-Dec 2011.

 

RESEARCH

Published and Forthcoming Papers

-          Bayesian Learning in Social Networks (with Douglas Gale, NYU). Games and Economic Behavior, November 2003, 45(2), pp. 329-346.

-          Observational Learning Under Imperfect Information (with Boğaçhan Çelen, Columbia B-School). Games and Economic Behavior, March 2004, 47(1), pp. 72-86.

-          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.

-          An Experimental Test of Observational Learning under Imperfect Information (with Boğaçhan Çelen, Columbia B-School). Economic Theory, October 2005, 26(3), pp. 677-699.

-          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.

-          Financial Networks (with Douglas Gale, NYU). American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, May 2007, 97(2), pp. 99-103.

-          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.

-          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.

-          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.

-          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.

-          Trading in Networks: A Normal Form Game Experiment (with Douglas Gale, NYU). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009, 1(2), pp. 114-132.

-          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.

-          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.

-          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.

-          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.

-          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

-           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.

-           Choosing a President: Does Character Matter?, 2013 (with Bill Zame, UCLA).

-           How Did the Great Recession Impact Social Preferences?, 2013 (with Ray Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Pam Jakiela, University of Maryland).

-           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.

-           Exposure to Ideology and Distributional Preferences, 2009 (with Ray Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School). [under revision]

-           Piercing the Veil of Ignorance, 2008 (with Bill Zame, UCLA). [under revision]

-           Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty, 2006 (with Syngjoo Choi, UCL, Ray Fisman, Columbia B-School, and Douglas Gale, NYU). [under revision]

-           Overconfidence and Informational Cascades, 2005. [under revision]

 

Other Publications

-          Book Review of Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. By Colin F. Camerer.  Princeton University Press. Economica, May 2004, 71, pp. 319–329.

-          Learning in Networks (with Douglas Gale, NYU), forthcoming in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan.

-          Book Review of Markets, Games, & Strategic Behavior. By Charles A. Holt. Journal of Economic Psychology, June 2007, 28(3), pp. 414-415.

 

AWARDS

-           The Earl F. Cheit Award For Excellence In Teaching, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2012.

-           Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2009.

-           Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, Division of Social Sciences, 2006-7.

-           Outstanding Advising Award, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Graduate Economics Association, 2006-7.

-           The Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003.

-           The Richard Crowell Memorial Prize Paper Competition (with Boğaçhan Çelen, Columbia B-School), 2002.

-           The James Arthur Fellowship in social sciences, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2002.

-           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.

-           The Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award in Social Sciences, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001.

 

MAJOR GRANTS

-           Center for Equitable Growth (CEG). Recovering Social Preferences: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment, 2012-13.

-           Center for Equitable Growth (CEG). Is there a development gap in decision-making quality?, 2012-13.

-           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.

-           Center for Equitable Growth (CEG). Wealth Differentials and Decision‐Making Quality: A Combined Survey and Field Experiment, 2011-12.

-           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

-           Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). Multi-Layers and Multi-Resolution Networks of Interacting Agents in Adversarial Environments, 2010-15.

-           National Science Foundation. Archetypes and Prototypes of Decisions under Uncertainty (with Douglas Gale, NYU), 2010-13.

-           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.

-           Coleman Fund Risk Management Research Center. Recovering Risk Preferences, 2008-9

-           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

-           Israeli and US citizen born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Dec 17 1970.

-           Married (Hilla Frenkel-Kariv) with three children (Danya, Omri and Yotam).

 

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