2009-2010 Placement Candidate

David Wozniak

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

David Wozniak (Dave) received a B.A. (Honours) in Economics and a B.Commerce (Finance) in 2003 from the University of Calgary. David also received an M.A. in Economics from Dalhousie University in 2006. David has recently advanced to candidacy and will be defending his doctoral dissertation in the spring of 2010.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

David intends to specialize in applied and experimental microeconomics focusing on the role that information has in individual decision making in labor markets and game theoretic problems. Current research examines the effects of relative performance feedback in experimental settings. David has wider interests in modeling economic agents' behaviors, with a focus towards gender and biological effects. David has also begun to explore the effects of ambiguity and risk aversion in predicting behaviors in other areas, such as signaling and bluffing. David is currently working with John Chalmers, Bill Harbaugh, and Ulrich Mayr in the Cognition and Neuroeconomics Lab (CANE).

David has presented his research at the 2009 International ESA Conference in Washington DC and at the IAREP/SABE Conference in Halifax (2009).

Dissertation Committee

Chair: Bill Harbaugh, worked with David on all his experimental projects.
Other members:
Trudy Cameron, worked with David on a number of projects using discrete choice data and designing survey instruments.
Van Kolpin, worked with David on topics ranging from network externalities to information effects for probabilistic outcomes.
Chris Minson, worked with David in the design of an experiment that explores the effects of hormonal fluctuations for competitive environment selection.

PAPERS

"Choices About Competition: Differences by gender and hormonal fluctuations, and the role of relative performance feedback." Job Market Paper (2009).

"An Exploration of Social Interactions, Identity and Status Motivations in an Economic Model of Conformity." MA Thesis. Dalhousie University (2006).

Work in Progress

"WTP to Remove the Effects of Ambiguity.". Dissertation chapter (2009)

"The Effects of Information Preferences and the Endowment Effect in Mutual Fund Investment Choice." with William T. Harbaugh, Ulrich Mayr and John Chalmers.

"Selection of Competitive Environments in a Market with Relative Performance Feedback: Examining Tournament Selection by Professional Tennis Players" in progress.

"Who are the Joneses? Reference Group Choice: How does size and relative rank information matter?" in progress.

"Using the NLSY97 to Examine Income Effects of Body Composition and the Relative Self Perception of One's Body." in progress.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

David is currently teaching Econometrics (Econ 421) for the second time and has recently taught Industrial Organization (Econ 360). In the past, he has served as a teaching assistant for Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Econometrics, Intermediate-level Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Responsibilities have included grading of homework sets and examinations, as well as teaching discussion sections and review sessions. In the future, he hopes to teach Microeconomics and Econometrics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

FIELDS

Core and Field courses completed or in progress (Instructors):

• Microeconomics ( Ron Davies, Anne van den Nouweland, Van Kolpin )
• Macroeconomics (Mark Thoma, Shankha Chakraborty, Nicolas Magud)
• Quantitative Methods (Peter Lambert, Larry Singell, Trudy Cameron)
• Labor Economics (Glen Waddell)
• Public Economics (Peter Lambert)
• Time Series (Jeremy Piger)
• Panel Data (Trudy Cameron)
• Game Theory (Van Kolpin )
• Growth and Development (Shankha Chakraborty)
• Experimental Economics (Bill Harbaugh)

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