September 28, 2009

Curriculum Vitae

 

Guillaume R. Fréchette

 

Address

 

New York University

Department of Economics

19 West Fourth Street, #512

New York, NY, 10012, USA

Phone: 212.992.8683

Fax: 212.995.3932

Email: frechette AT nyu.edu

 

Education

            Ph.D. Economics, Ohio State University, August 2002

            M.A., Economics, Queen’s University, September 1997

            B.A. (Honours), Economics, McGill University, June 1996

 

Current Positions

08/09 – present            Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University.

08/04 – present            Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University.

 

Other Affiliations

10/05 – present            Researcher, CIRANO, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

08/04 – present            Researcher, Center for Experimental Social Science (CESS), New York University.

 

Previous Position

08/02 – 07/04  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School.

 

Research  Interests

Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization, Political Economy, Public Economics.

 

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

            Principal Investigator, NSF Grant No. SES- 0924780, “Experimental Investigations of Infinitely Repeated Games,” 2009-2012.

            Co-Applicant, Russell Sage Grant, “Conference on the Methodology of Experimental Economics,” 2008.

            Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Grant No. SES-0721111, “Persuasion in Financial Decisions,” 2007-2008.

            Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Grant No. SES-0519045, “Theory, Experiments and Empirical Methodology of Coalition Bargaining: An integrated Approach,” 2005-2008.

           

 

 

Published Papers

            “Learning in a Multilateral Bargaining Experiment,” Journal of Econometrics, Volume 153, Issue 2, December 2009, pp. 183-195.

            “Collusion as Public Monitoring Becomes Noisy: Experimental Evidence” (with Masaki Aoyagi), Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 144, Issue 3, May 2009, pp. 1135-1165.

            “Incumbents' Interests, Voters' Bias and Gender Quotas” (with Francois Maniquet, Massimo Morelli), American Journal of Political Science, Volume 52 Issue 4, October 2008, pp. 891-909.

            “Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls” (with Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver), RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2007, pp. 967-982.

            “Bargaining and Network Structure: An Experiment” (with Gary Charness and Margarida Corominas-Bosch), Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 136, Issue 1, September 2007, pp. 28-65.

            “Endogenous Transfers in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: An Experimental Test Of Cooperation And Coordination” (with Gary Charness and Cheng-Zhong Qin), Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 2, August 2007, pp. 287-306.

            “Behavioral Identification in Coalitional Bargaining: An Experimental Analysis of Demand Bargaining and Alternating Offers” (with John H. Kagel and Massimo Morelli), Econometrica, Volume 73, Issue 6, November 2005, pp. 1893-1938.

            “Nominal Bargaining Power, Selection Protocol, and Discounting in Legislative Bargaining” (with John H. Kagel and Massimo Morelli), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 89, Issue 8, August 2005, pp. 1497-1517.

            “Gamson’s Law versus Non-Cooperative Bargaining Theory” (with John H. Kagel and Massimo Morelli), Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2005, pp. 365-390.

            “How Robust is Laboratory Gift-Exchange?” (with Gary Charness and John H. Kagel), Experimental Economics, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2004, pp. 189-205.

            “Bargaining in Legislatures: An Experimental Investigation of Open versus Closed Amendment Rules” (with John H. Kagel and Steven F. Lehrer), American Political Science Review, Volume 97, Issue 2, May 2003, pp. 221-232.

 

Books

            Fréchette, Guillaume and Andrew Schotter (editors) The Methods of Modern Experimental Economics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

 

Other Publications

            “Laboratory Experiments: Professionals versus Students” in The Methods of Modern Experimental Economics, Guillaume Fréchette and Andrew Schotter (editors), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

            Book review of: “Shaun Bowler and Bernard Grofman (Eds.), Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: Reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000,” Public Choice, Vol. 107, Nos. 3-4 (June 2001), 403-406.

            “sg158.1: Update to random-effects ordered probit,” Stata Technical Bulletin 61, May 2001, 12. Reprinted in Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, Vol. 10, 266-267.

            “sg158: Random-effects ordered probit,” Stata Technical Bulletin 59, January 2001, 23-27. Reprinted in Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints, Vol. 10, 261-266.

 

Working Papers

            “Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types” (with Matthew Embrey and Steven Lehrer).

            “Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket!: An Experimental Study of False Diversification” (with Kfir Eliaz).

            “The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence” (with Pedro Dal Bó), revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review.

            “Pork Versus Public Goods: An Experimental Study of Public Good Provision within a Legislative Bargaining Framework” (with John H. Kagel and Massimo Morelli).

 

Other Research in Progress

            “A Bargaining Experiment with Politicians” (with John Kagel and Steven Lehrer).

            “Advice and Persuasion” (with Andrew Schotter).

            “An Experiment on the Impact of Game Complexity” (with Marie-Hélène Cloutier).

            “Multilateral Bargaining with Cheap Talk” (with Massimo Morelli).

            “Renegotiation-Proofness: An Experimental Study” (with Matthew Embrey and Ennio Stacchetti).

            “Strategies Used in Infinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma” (with Pedro Dal Bó).

            “The Determinants of Voting In Multilateral Bargaining Games” (with John Kagel and Emanuel Vespa).

 

Professional  Activities

            Co-Organizer, Conference on the Methods of Modern Experimental Economics   (Part II), NYU, October 2009.

            Co-Organizer, CESS / CREED graduate students exchange conference on Experimental Economics, NYU, January 2009 / University of Amsterdam, May 2009.

            Member, Standard Research Grants Selection Committee 7 / Economics, SSHRC, August 2008-2009.

            Co-Organizer, Conference on the Methods of Modern Experimental Economics   (Part I), NYU, April 2008.

            Co-Organizer, CESS / CREED graduate students exchange conference on Experimental Economics, NYU, January 2007 / University of Amsterdam, May 2007.

            Co-Organizer, SITE conference on Experimental Economics, Stanford, August 2005.

           

Refereeing          American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, European Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, TESS, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy.

 

Seminar Presentations

2010 (forthcoming)

§         Tiburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, May.

§         University of Oxford, Oxford, England, May.

§         Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, March.

§         George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, January.

 

2009 (including forthcoming)

§         Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November.

§         California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, November.

§         University of California, San Diego, CA, November.

§         Texas A&M, College Station, TX, October.

§         Universitat Autonònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, May.

§         University of Calgary, Economics Seminar Series, Calgary, Canada, January.

 

2008

  • University of British Columbia, Experimental Economics Seminar, Vancouver, Canada, November.
  • University of Iowa, Clarence W. Tow Lecture, Iowa City, IA, November.
  • California Institute of Technology, Bray Theory Workshop, Pasadena, CA, May.
  • University of Maryland, IO-Theory seminar, College Park, MD, May.
  • London School of Economics, STICERD Economic Theory Seminar, London, England, May.
  • University College London, UCL-ELSE Economic Theory Seminar, London, England, May.
  • University of California, Berkeley, Joint Microeconomic Theory  and Psychology and Economics Seminar, Berkeley, CA, April.
  • Université Paris 1, Séminaire Économie et Psychologie, Paris, France, March.

 

2007

  • Brown University, Citibank Workshop in Economic Theory, Providence, RI, November.
  • Université Laval, Séminaire Matuszewski, Québec, Canada, March.

 

2006

  • University of Michigan, Applied Micro Seminar, Ann Arbor, MI, December.
  • University of Texas at Austin, Game Theory and Experimental Economics Seminar, Austin, TX, October.
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Monaster Center Seminar, Israel, May.

 

2005

  • Stockholm School of Economics, Seminar in Economics, Sweden, May.
  • ECARES, Seminar in economics, Belgium, May.
  • Rutgers University, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ, April.
  • University of Essex, Department Seminar, England, March.
  • University of Pittsburgh, Experimental Economics Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, March.

 

2004

  • Stanford University, Department of Economics, Palo Alto, CA, January.
  • Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, West Lafayette, IN, January.
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Pittsburgh, PA, January.
  • HEC Montréal, Institut d’Econommie Apliquée, Montréal, Canada, January.
  • Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, January.

 

2003

  • New York University, C.E.S.S. Experimental Seminar, New York, NY, November.
  • Harvard University, NOM Seminar, Cambridge, MA, November.
  • Harvard University, Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Cambridge, MA, October.
  • Université Laval, Séminaire Matuszewski, Québec, Canada, April.

 

2001

  • Harvard University, Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Cambridge, MA, September.
  • Ohio State University, Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Columbus, OH, September.
  • Ohio State University, Undergraduate Economics Society Invited Speaker, Columbus, OH, October.

 

1999

  • University of Pittsburgh, Microeconomic Theory Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall.
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall.

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

2009   

§         SITE Conference on Experimental Economics, Stanford, CA, August.

§         Plenary speaker at the 20th Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society, Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, July.

§         FSU Workshop on Experimental Game Theory, Tallahassee, FL, February.

§         Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Economic Science Association session, San Francisco, CA, January.

 

2008

  • 78th Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Washington D.C., November.
  • CIRANO conference on Individual Decisions and Political Process, Montreal, Canada, October.
  • Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, IL, July.
  • Society for Economic Design 5th Conference on Economic Design, Ann Arbor, MI, June.
  • Conference on the Methods of Modern Experimental Economics, New York, NY, April.
  • Social Dilemmas Conference, Tallahassee, FL, February.
  • Experimental and Behavioral Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, February.
  • Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Economic Science Association and Econometric Society sessions, New Orleans, LA, January.

 

2007

  • North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, October.
  • 18th Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society, Workshop on Experimental Economics, Stony Brook, NY, July.
  • Conference of the French Economic Association on Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics, Lyon, France, May.

 

2005

  • SITE Conference on Experimental Economics, Stanford, August.
  • International ESA Meetings, Montréal, Canada, June.

 

2004

  • SITE Conference on Experimental Economics, Stanford, CA, August.
  • 15th Summer Festival on Game Theory, Workshop on Political Economy, Stony Brook, NY, July.
  • Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, Providence, RI, June.
  • Conference on Experiments and Econometrics, New York, NY, May.

 

 

2003

  • 14th Summer Festival on Game Theory, Workshop on “Experimental Economics and Game Theory”, Stony Brook, NY, July.
  • International Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June.
  • Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, Evanston, IL, June.

 

 

2001

  • North American Meetings of the Econometric Society, MA, June.
  • Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada, June.
  • Public Choice Society & Economic Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March.

 

2000

  • 4th Russell Sage Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, Berkeley, CA, July.
  • Econometric Society World Congress, Seattle, WA, August.
  • Public Choice Society Meeting, Charleston, SC, March.

 

Graduate Students

2006

  • Syngjoo Choi, Assistant Professor, University College London.
  • Anna Bassi (Ph.D. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina.

 

2007

  • Neslihan Uler, Research Fellow, University of Michigan.
  • Erkut Ozbay, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland.

 

2008

  • Wolly Ehrblatt, Boston Consulting Group.
  • Bei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

 

2009

  • Matthew S. Embrey, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University.
  • Julia Schwenkenberg, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Newark.

 

Current

  • Chloe Tergiman, Ph.D. Expected 2010.
  • Marina Agranov, Ph.D. Expected 2010.
  • Anja Sautmann, Ph.D. Expected 2010.
  • Marie-Hélène Cloutier, Université de Montréal, Ph.D. Expected 2010.
  • Emanuel Vespa, Ph.D. Expected 2011.
  • Alistair Wilson, Ph.D. Expected 2011.