Dan Friedman // Professor of Economics, UC Santa Cruz
About
Daniel Friedman joined the faculty in 1985 after teaching at UCLA and UC Berkeley. He has broad research interests in applied economic theory, with recent emphasis on learning and evolution, laboratory experiments, and financial markets. The coauthor of three books, eleven NSF grants, and dozens of research articles, he currently is studying a) how motives beyond self-interest affect market performance, and b) market formats for electronic commerce.
His popular book, Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Modern World, is due to be published by Palgrave-MacMillan in October 2008.
His current administrative responsibilities include:
Director of the Business Management Economics program and Chair of Undergraduate Committee for the Economics Department;
Incoming Chair of the UCSC Institutional Review Board / Human Subjects Committee;
Frequent member of recruitment committees and oversight committees for the Engineering School's TIM program;
Chair of 2008 External Review Committee for UCSC's New Teacher Center.
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Papers
- Equilibrium Vengeance
- Bubbles and Crashes
- Bubble and Crashes: a Cyborg Approach
- BUY IT NOW: A HYBRID INTERNET MARKET INSTITUTION
- An Experiment on the Core
- Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment
- Conspicuous Consumption Dynamics
- eBay Sellers
- Revealed Altruism
- A Laboratory Investigation of Networked Markets
- A Laboratory Investigation of Networked Markets
- Cheating in Markets
- Market theories evolve, and so do markets
- A laboratory Investigation of Deferral Options
- ITEM Proposal
- Speculative Attacks: A Laboratory Study in Continuous Time
- A Laboratory Investigation of Networked Markets
- Markups in Double Auction Markets
- Searching for the Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Financial Engineering and Rationality: Experimental Evidence Based on the Monty Hall Problem
- A tractable model of reciprocity and fairness
- Cheating in Markets: A Methodological Exploration
- Internet Congestion: A Lab Experiment
- Litigation with symmetric bargaining and two-sided incomplete information
- Dynamics of Price Dispersion
- Bargaining versus Posted Price Competition in Customer Markets
- Towards Evolutionary Game Models of Financial Markets
- Laboratory Study of Customer Markets
- Buyer Search and Price Dispersion: A Laboratory Study
- On the Viability of Vengeance
- Evolutionary Economics Goes Mainstream: A Review of the Theory of Learning in Games
- Customer Search and Market Power: Some Laboratory Evidence
- Learning in a Laboratory Market with Random Supply and Demand
- Learning to Forecast Price
- On economic applications of evolutionary games
- Monty Hall's Three Doors: Construction and Deconstruction of a Choice Anomaly
- Understanding Variability in Binary and Continuous Choice
- Evolving Landscapes for Population Games
- Individual Learning in Normal Form Games: Some Laboratory Results
- The Factory System
- Competitivity in Auction Markets: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation
- Evolutionary Games in Economics
- A Simple Testable Model of Double Auction Markets
- The S-Shaped Value Function as a Constrained Optimum
- Producers' Markets
- Effective Scoring Rules for Probabilistic Forecasts
- Short-run Fluctuations in Foreign Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Data 973-1979.
- Money-Mediated Disequilibrium Processes