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OFFICE CONTACT

New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory                                    Tel: +64 3 364 2825 ext. 6825

Department of Economics and Finance                                                         Fax: +64 3 364 2635

University of Canterbury                                                                                   E-mail: maros.servatka@canterbury.ac.nz

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Christchurch, New Zealand

 

               

CITIZENSHIP

Slovakia, New Zealand resident

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona, August 2006

Dissertation Title: Experiments on Fairness and Reputation

M.A., Economics, University of Arizona, December 2002

Ing., Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business; specialization Operation Research and Econometrics, University of Economics, Bratislava, October 2001

Mgr., Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Warsaw School of Economics, June 2000

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Lecturer above the Bar, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury, January 2011 – present

Deputy Director, New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory, July 2011 – present

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury, January 2009 – December 2010

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, January 2007 – December 2008

Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, University of Economics, Bratislava, October 2009 – present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2011

Visiting Assistant Professor, George J. Stigler Center, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Winter 2008

Visiting Scholar, George J. Stigler Center, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, April 2007

Postdoc, SonderForschungsBereich 504, University of Mannheim, August 2006 – December 2006

 

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“Building Trust One Gift at a Time,” (with Steven Tucker and Radovan Vadovič), Games, 2(4), 2011, 412-433. Special Issue on Fairness in Games.

“Words Speak Louder Than Money,” (with Steven Tucker and Radovan Vadovič), Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(5), 2011, 700–709.

“Understanding Credit Risk: A Classroom Experiment,” (with George Theocharides), Journal of Economic Education, 42(1), 2011, 79-86.

“Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?” (with C. Bram Cadsby and Fei Song), Experimental Economics, 13(3), 2010, 299-308.

“Saliency of Outside Options in the Lost Wallet Game,” (with James C. Cox and Radovan Vadovič), Experimental Economics, 13(1), 2010, 66–74.

“Does Generosity Generate Generosity? An Experimental Study of Reputation Effects in a Dictator Game,” Journal of Socio-Economics, 39(1), 2010, 11-17.

“Unequal Outside Options in the Lost Wallet Game,” (with Radovan Vadovič), Economics Bulletin, 29(4), 2009, 1-14.

“Separating Reputation, Social Influence, and Identification Effects in a Dictator Game,” European Economic Review, 53(2), 2009, 197-209.

“Vertical Integration of Successive Monopolists: A Classroom Experiment,” (with Narine Badasyan, Jacob Goeree, Monica Hartmann, Charles Holt, John Morgan, and Dirk Yandell), Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 5(1), 2009.

“Experiments on Fairness and Reputation: Dissertation Abstract,” Experimental Economics, 10(2), 2007, 199-200.

 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Symbols and Hold-up,” (with Hodaka Morita), In Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2011, 1306-1309. ISBN: 978-0-9872143-1-7. Refereed.

“Laboratory Experiments in Economics, Finance and Political Science,” (with Charles Noussair and Steven Tucker), New Zealand Economic Papers: Special Issue on Experimental Economics, 43(2), 2009. Editorial.

“Institutional Economics: A Crucial Tool for Understanding Economic Development,” (with Alexandra Benham, Lee Benham, Urban Kováč, John Nye, and Mary Shirley), Ekonomický časopis / Journal of Economics, 57(6), 2009, 603-607.

“Does a Deposit Increase Trust and Trustworthiness?” (with Steven Tucker and Radovan Vadovič), In Anderssen, R.S., R.D. Braddock and L.T.H. Newham (eds) 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, 1464-1470. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-7-8. Refereed.

 “1st Bratislava Economic Meeting,” (with Urban Kováč and Radovan Vadovič), Ekonomický časopis / Journal of Economics, 56(5), 2008, 531-533. Invited article. Reprinted in Ekonóm 3-4, 2008, 4-5.

“Relational Contracts under Uncertain Conditions: An Experimental Study,” (with Ninghua Du), In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, 1184-1190. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. Refereed.

“Do People Punish and Reward Less When the Outcomes Are Risky?” (with Peter Duersch), In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, 1178-1183. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. Refereed.

“Experimental Examination of Behavior in a Sequential versus Simultaneous Trust Game,” (with Steven Tucker and Radovan Vadovič), In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, 372-378. ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7. Refereed.

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

Symbols, Group Identity, and the Hold-up Problem (with Hodaka Morita, 2011)

ABC on Deals (with Martin Dufwenberg and Radovan Vadovič, 2011)

Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission (with James C. Cox and Radovan Vadovič, 2011)

How Competitive Are Professional Women? A Tale of Identity Conflict (with C. Bram Cadsby and Fei Song, 2011)

Do People Keep Socially Unverifiable Promises? (with Cary Deck and Steven Tucker, 2011)

Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation (with Hodaka Morita, 2011)

Does Competition Resolve the Free-Rider Problem in the Voluntary Provision of Impure Public Goods? Experimental Evidence (with Tibor Neugebauer, 2010)

Strategic Use of Trust (with Steven Tucker and Radovan Vadovič, 2008)

Shocks and Relationships (with Ninghua Du, last revised 2009)

 

 

GRANTS

Tatra banka Foundation Grant financing activities of Virtual Scientific Laboratories, 2007-2012

Teaching and Learning Committee Grant, University of Canterbury, 2010

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2011, Agreements, Bargaining, and Cheating

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2010, Self-selection, Team Membership and Hold-up

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2009, Risky Punishment

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2008, Does Vertical Integration Alleviate Hold-up Problem?

College of Business and Economics Marsden Fund Application Grant, University of Canterbury, 2007, Are Labor Market Probationary Periods Effective?

College of Business and Economics Marsden Fund Application Grant, University of Canterbury, 2007, Can Incentive Based Mechanisms Remedy Fraud in Insurance?

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2007, Trust Signaling

College of Business and Economics Contestable Research Grant, University of Canterbury, 2007, Rewarding Altruism by Rank Order Competition in Team Production

SonderForschungsBereich 504 Research Grant, University of Mannheim, 2006, Handshakes

SonderForschungsBereich 504 Research Grant, University of Mannheim, 2006, Tournaments and Public Goods

SonderForschungsBereich 504 Research Grant, University of Mannheim, 2006, Risk and Emotions

Economic Science Laboratory Research Grant, University of Arizona, 2005-2006, Shocks and Relationships

Economic Science Laboratory Research Grant, University of Arizona, 2004-2005, Reputation vs. Social Influence: Which Is Stronger?

Economic Science Laboratory Research Grant, University of Arizona, 2004-2005, Reputation in Dictator Games 

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Early Career Research Excellence Prize, 2011

Early Career Research Award, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, 2010

Erskine Grant, University of Canterbury, 2008, 2010

Best Honors Course Award (Behavioral Economics), Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, 2007

Top 10 Students of Slovakia Award for academic year 2004/2005, Chamber of Slovak Youth under the patronage of the President of Slovak Republic

Don Wells Teaching Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2005

William I. Green PR Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2003, 2004

Second Year Paper Conference 2nd Prize Winner, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2003

Higher School of Business and International Finance (Warsaw, Poland) Doctoral Scholarship, 2001-2003

George W. Coleman Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2002-2004

Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2001-2005

Graduate Registration Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2001-2002, 2005

Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2001

Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic Doctoral Scholarship 2000-2001, Warsaw School of Economics

Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic Master’s Scholarship 1998-2000, Warsaw School of Economics

 

 

TEACHING

University of Canterbury: Behavioral Economics (Honors), Behavioral Labor Economics, Game Theory

Case Western Reserve University: Economic Behavior and Psychology, Game Theory

University of Economics, Bratislava: Experimental Methods in Economics and Finance (PhD)

University of Arizona: Introduction to Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions, Microeconomic Theory (PhD level TA), Principles of Economics (TA)

Warsaw School of Economics: Advanced Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics (Masters), Principles of Economics

Higher School of Business and International Finance, Warsaw: Advanced Microeconomics (Masters), Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Introduction to Econometrics

 

 

SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SHORT VISITS

2011       Case Western Reserve, Guelph, University of Economics in Bratislava (visit), NZAE (Wellington), NZEEL, MOTU (Wellington), ANZ Workshop on Experimental Economics (Monash), Auckland, ESA (Tucson), MODSIM 11 (Perth)

2010       ESA (Melbourne), Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Moscow), Higher School of Economics (Moscow), 2nd Bratislava Economic Meeting, National Bank of Slovakia, College of Business and Economics Research Celebration (Canterbury), University of Economics in Bratislava (visit), ESA (Tucson), ITAM (visit), Guelph, ExCEN Georgia State (visit), SWUFE Chengdu, Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Shanghai)

2009       Comenius University (Bratislava), Luxembourg (visit), CERGE-EI (Prague), CeDEx Nottingham, Otago (Dunedin, NZ), Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Bratislava), NZAE (Wellington), MODSIM 09 (Cairns), College of Business and Economics Research Celebration (Canterbury), ESA (Innsbruck), ESA (Tucson), Bratislava Open Lecture Series (University of Economics), ANZ Workshop on Experimental Economics (Canterbury)

2008       Center for Decision Research Chicago GSB, Microeconomics Workshop Chicago GSB, UNSW (Sydney), U of Sydney, 1st Bratislava Economic Meeting, Canterbury, Australian Workshop on Experimental Economics (Melbourne), Alumni Weekend Research Seminar (Canterbury), ESA (Tucson), ITAM (visit), ExCEN Georgia State (visit), Heidelberg

2007       ESA (Osaka), ZUEL (Wuhan, China), Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Reykjavik), ISNIE (Reykjavik), ESA (Rome), Workshop on Teaching Economics with Experiments (Bratislava), ESA (Shanghai), Workshop on Experimental Methods in Economics Research (Canterbury), Australian Workshop on Experimental Economics (Melbourne), Victoria (Wellington) Waikato (Hamilton, NZ), MODSIM 07 (Christchurch)

2006       Southern Mississippi, Canterbury, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Hannover, Ronald Coase Institute and George J. Stigler Center Conference on Institutional Research (Chicago), GATE Lyon

2005       CEU (Budapest), Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Barcelona), ESA (Tucson), Arizona, SEA (Washington D.C.)

2004       Tucson Interdisciplinary Workshop on Decision-Making, Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics, ESA (Tucson), SEA (New Orleans), Arizona

2003       NSF Workshop on Classroom Experiments (Tucson), Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics, ESA (Tucson)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Economic Design Network, Economic Science Association, New Zealand Association of Economists, Ronald Coase Institute Fellow, Slovak Economic Association (Founder, Fellow and Vice-President 2010-12), Virtual Scientific Laboratories.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

Editorship

·         Guest Editor, New Zealand Economic Papers, Special Issue on Experimental Economics, 43(2), August 2009.

 

Refereeing

British Journal of Social Psychology, Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior (2), Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2), Journal of Economic Psychology (5), Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Economics/Ekonomický časopis, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Socio-Economics (2), Management Science, New Zealand Economic Papers (2), Southern Economic Journal

Proceedings of MODSIM07, MODSIM09, MODSIM11, Palgrave, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

Laboratory

Created the New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory (NZEEL) at the University of Canterbury, 2009

 

Organizer

Inaugural NZEEL Distinguished Lecture delivered by Tim Cason, University of Canterbury, Aug. 2011

2nd Bratislava Economic Meeting, June 2010

2010 Condliffe Memorial Lecture delivered by Charles Plott, University of Canterbury, April 2010

4th Australia New Zealand Workshop on Experimental Economics, University of Canterbury, Dec. 2009

Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Bratislava, May 2009

Bratislava Open Lecture Series, University of Economics, Bratislava, Oct. 2008, May 2009

Member of the Organizing Committee for Establishment of Slovak Economic Association, June 2008

Business Meeting for Establishment of Slovak Economic Association, June 2008

1st Bratislava Economic Meeting, June 2008

Tatra banka Nobel Lecture Series, University of Economics, Bratislava (Inaugural Lecture Robert Aumann, May 2008; Edward C. Prescott, Sept. 2009; Robert A. Mundell, March 2010; Edmund S. Phelps, Sept. 2010; Oliver Williamson, Oct. 2011)

Workshop on Experimental Methods in Economics Research, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aug. 2007

Workshop on Teaching Economics with Computerized Experiments, University of Economics and Virtual Scientific Laboratories, Bratislava, July 2007

 

Session organizer

Behavioral Economics Session, Experimental Economics Session, MODSIM11, Perth, Dec. 2011

Experimental Economics Session, NZAE Wellington, June 2011

Behavioral Economics Session, Experimental Economics Session, MODSIM09, Cairns, July 2009

Behavioral Economics Session, Experimental Economics Session, and Social Norms Session, MODSIM07, Christchurch, Dec. 2007