Donna and David Janes Endowed Chair in Experimental Economics
Email: dporter@chapman.edu
Ph.D. (Economics), M.S. (Mathematics) University of Arizona
B.S. (Economics and Mathematics) Arizona State University
Research Interests:
Economic Systems Design, Financial Economics, Experimental Methods
Recent Publications:
"The Impact of High-Frequency Trading in Experimental Markets," with Nathanael Berger and Mark DeSantis, The Journal of Investing, 2020.
“Information Aggregation and the Cognitive Make-up of Traders,” with Brice Corgnet and Mark DeSantis, European Economic Review, 2021.
"Forecasting Skills in Experimental Markets: Illusion or Reality?" with Brice Corgnet, Cary Deck and Mark DeSantis, Management Science, 2021.
“Reference Dependent Prices in Bargaining: An Experimental Examination of Precise First Offers,” with Erik Kimbrough and Mark Schneider, Journal of Economic Pschycology, 2021.
“Introduction to the special issue in honor of Professor Vernon Lomax Smith,” with Mark DeSantis, Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2022.
“Let’s chat... when communication promotes efficiency in experimental asset markets," with Brice Corgnet and Mark DeSantis, Management Science, 2022.
“Complements and Substitutes in a Dynamic Consumption-Asset Economy: A Laboratory Experiment,” with Benjamin Chase,Yijun Shen and Vernon Smith, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2023.
“Reserve Price Preferences and Auction Design,” with Erik Kimbrough and Philipp Limberg, Journal of Behavioral Finance. 2024.
“Match Stability with a Costly and Flexible Number of Positions,” with James Gilmore, Games. May 2025.
“Vote and Trade: An Efficient Mechanism for Common-Pool Resource Management with Stock Externalities,” with Hao Zhao, Journal of Public Economics, 2025.