Curriculum
Vitae
Roberto
A. Weber
PERSONAL
Title: Associate Professor
(without tenure) of Economics & Social and Decision Sciences
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Affiliated positions: Associate Professor of Organizational
Behavior (by courtesy)
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Affiliated Faculty
Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL)
University of Pittsburgh
Office address: Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
E-mail
address: rweber@andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: (412) 268-3224
Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~rweber
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and
Social Sciences. Ph.D., 2000 (economics). Thesis: Interdependence in Laboratory Groups and
Organizations. Committee: Colin
Camerer (Chair), Richard McKelvey,
Thomas Palfrey, David Grether.
California
Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. MS, 1996 (social science).
Texas A&M University. BA, 1994 (economics).
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Colin Camerer and Roberto A. Weber. (forthcoming).
“Growing organizational culture in the laboratory.” In Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, eds. Charles R. Plott and Vernon L. Smith. Amsterdam,
The Netherlands:
Elsevier.
Roberto A.
Weber and Robyn Dawes. (forthcoming).
“Behavioral economics.” In Handbook of Economic
Sociology, eds. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York, NY: Russell Sage.
Bill
McEvily, Roberto
Weber, Cristina Bicchieri and Violet Ho. (forthcoming). “Can groups be trusted? An experimental
study of collective trust.” to appear in R. Bachmann and A. Zaheer
(Eds.) The Handbook of Trust, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Roberto A. Weber, Colin Camerer and Marc Knez. (2004). “Timing and virtual observability in ultimatum bargaining and ‘weak-link’
coordination games.” Experimental Economics.
7(1): 25-48.
George
Loewenstein, Don A. Moore and Roberto
A. Weber.
(2003). “Paying $1 to lose $2:
Misperceptions of the value of information in predicting the performance of
others.” (short version). 2003 Academy of Management Best
Papers Proceedings.
Roberto A. Weber. (2003).
“`Learning’ with no feedback in a competitive guessing game.” Games and Economic Behavior 44(1): 134-144.
Roberto A. Weber and Colin Camerer.
(2003). “Cultural conflict and merger failure: An experimental approach.” Management Science 49(4): 400-415.
Roberto A.
Weber, Yuval Rottenstreich, Colin
Camerer and Marc Knez. (2001). “The illusion of leadership: Misattribution
of cause in coordination games.” Organization Science 12(5): 582-598.
Roberto A. Weber. (2001).
“Behavior and learning in the ‘dirty faces’ game.” Experimental Economics 4(3): 229-242.
Richard McKelvey, Thomas Palfrey and Roberto A. Weber. (2000).
“The effects of payoff magnitude and heterogeneity on behavior in 2x2 games
with unique mixed strategy equilibria.” Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization 42(4): 523-548.
Colin
Camerer and Roberto A. Weber. (1999). “The econometrics
and behavioral economics of escalation of commitment in NBA draft
choices.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 39(1): 59-82
George
Loewenstein, Drazen
Prelec and Roberto A. Weber. (1999).
“What me worry? A psychological perspective on economic aspects of retirement” in Behavioral
Dimensions of Retirement Economics, ed. Henry J. Aaron. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
BOOK REVIEWS
“A review of ‘Robert J. Aumann: Collected Papers.’”
(2001) Computational and
Mathematical Organizational Theory 7(1): 63-68.
WORKING PAPERS
“Managing growth to achieve
efficient coordination in large groups,” revise and resubmit (2nd
round), American Economic Review.
“Is there a relationship
between election outcomes and perceptions of personal economic well-being? A
test using post-election economic expectations” (with Garrett Glasgow), revision resubmitted (2nd
round), Electoral Studies.
“Credibility of Advice in Coordination Games: Does
Advisor’s Payoff Matter?” (with Jason Xi Kuang and Jason Dana),
revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization.
“The effects of organizational
structure and codes on the performance of laboratory ‘firms’ (with Colin
Camerer and Scott
Rick), under review.
“Exploiting ‘moral wriggle room’:
Behavior inconsistent with a preference for fair outcomes” (with Jason Dana and Jason Xi Kuang),
under review.
“Paying $1 to lose $2:
Misperceptions of the value of information in predicting the performance of
others” (with George
Loewenstein and Don Moore), under
review.
“Favorable
interpretations of ambiguity and unstable preferences for fairness” (with Emily
Haisley), under review.
“The observational
and focusing influences of social norms in dictator allocation decisions” (with
Erin Krukpe).
“Reflective learning and transfer of learning
without feedback: An experimental test
across games.”
“Can groups be trusted? An experimental study of
collective trust” (with Bill McEvily, Cristina
Bicchieri, and Violet Ho).
“Letting the good times
roll: A theory of voter inference and experimental evidence” (with John Patty).
“Agreeing to fight: An explanation of the
‘Democratic Peace’” (with John Patty).
“Organizational coordination: A game-theoretic view”
WORK IN PROGRESS
“On the
relationship between inter-personal and intra-personal coordination” (with Jason
Dana).
“Self-belief,
consistency, and choice” (with John Patty and Jason
Dana).
“Self-serving
attributions of responsibility in decisions involving fairness” (with Scott
Rick).
“Sorting opportunities
in decisions involving fairness” (with Edward
Lazear and Ulrike Malmendier).
“Fairness
under agency” (with George Loewenstein and John
Hamman).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Research
grant from Center for Organizational Learning and Innovation, Carnegie Mellon. 2004.
“Reflective learning and transfer of learning in games.” $6, 780.
Russell
Sage Foundation, Grant for Workshop on New and Alternative Directions for
Learning. 2004. $11,820.
Berkman Faculty Development Grant
(with Bill McEvily) Carnegie Mellon University. 2003. $4,800.
National
Science Foundation, Award No. SES-0095570 (with Colin
Camerer). 2001-2004. “Collaborative research: An
experimental approach to organizational culture.” $198,000
($130,098 to Carnegie Mellon).
Berkman Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Mellon University. 1999. $9,800.
Sloan
Dissertation Fellowship. 1998-1999.
Ford Foundation Minority
Fellowship. 1997-1998.
Russell Sage Foundation,
Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics.
1997. “Experiments on iterated
rationality.” $2,500.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewed manuscripts for American Economic Review, Complexity, Economic
Inquiry, Economic Journal, Econometrica, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Interfaces, International
Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Labor
Economics, Journal of Political Economy,
Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, Review of Economic Studies, and
Risk Analysis.
Reviewed
proposals for National Science Foundation.
Editorial Review Board, Organization Science (2004-2006)
Organizing
committee, Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association, June 2003, Pittsburgh.
Co-organizer,
Workshop on New and Alternative Directions for Learning Research, August 2004, Pittsburgh.
Co-editor,
Special Issue of Experimental Economics
on Behavioral Economics. Expected
publication in 2006.
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
April
1996, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, Houston, Texas. “First-mover
advantage and virtual observability in bargaining and
weak-link coordination games.”
September
1996, Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association. Tucson, Arizona, “Uncommon knowledge: An
experimental test of the ‘dirty faces’ game.”
November
1996, Annual Meetings of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois. “The illusion of
leadership” (poster presentation).
April
1997, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, San Francisco, California. “The illusion of leadership: Misattribution
of cause in coordination games.”
June 1997,
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Pasadena California. “Uncommon knowledge: An
experimental test of the ‘dirty faces’ game.”
July 1997, Russell Sage
Institute Behavioral Economics Summer Conference, Berkeley, California. “Uncommon knowledge: An
experimental test of the ‘dirty faces’ game.”
August
1997, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts. “The illusion of leadership: Misattribution
of cause in coordination games” (refereed submission).
January
1998, Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Chicago, Illinois. “The illusion of leadership: Misattribution
of cause in coordination games.”
February
1998, Stanford Conference on Strategic Management, Stanford, California. “Coordination problems in growing firms:
Insights from experiments.”
March
1998, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. “Coordination problems in growing firms:
Insights from experiments.”
June 1998,
Behavioral Decision Research in Management Meetings, Miami, Florida. “Coordination problems in growing firms:
Insights from experiments.”
August
1998, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, San
Diego, California. “The econometrics and behavioral economics of
escalation to commitment in NBA draft choices” (refereed submission).
October
1998, North American Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona. “‘Learning’ with no feedback: A test of
reinforcement models in games.”
November
1998, Annual Meetings of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Dallas, Texas. “’Learning’ with no feedback: A test of
reinforcement models in games” (refereed submission).
December
1998, University of Arizona,
Management and Policy. “Coordination problems in
growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January
1999, London Business School,
Strategic Management Department. “Coordination problems in growing firms: Insights
from experiments.”
January
1999, University of Southern California, Marshall School of
Business.
“Coordination problems in growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January 1999, University of Pennsylvania, The
Wharton School. “Coordination problems
in growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January
1999, Carnegie Mellon University, Social
and Decision Sciences. “Coordination problems in growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January
1999, Harvard University, Harvard Business School. “Coordination problems in
growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January
1999, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management. “Coordination problems in
growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
January
1999, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of
Industrial Administration. “Coordination problems in growing firms: Insights
from experiments.”
February
1999, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. “Coordination problems in
growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
February
1999, Stanford University, Graduate School of
Business.
“Coordination problems in growing firms: Insights from experiments.”
February 2000, Carnegie
Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh, Groups and Organizations
Seminar. “A game
theoretic view of coordination in organizations.”
March
2000, Pennsylvania State
University, Smeal College of
Business.
“Organizational growth and coordination problems: An experimental
investigation.”
May 2000,
Behavioral Decision Research in Management Meetings, Tucson, Arizona. “Culture conflict and merger failure: An
experimental approach” (refereed submission).
June 2000,
Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association, New York, New York. “Culture conflict and merger failure: An
experimental approach.”
July 2000,
First World Congress
of the Game Theory Society, Bilbao, Spain. “’Learning’ with no feedback: A test of
reinforcement models using the competitive guessing game” (refereed
submission).
December
2000, MacArthur Foundation Preferences Network
meetings, Los Angeles, California. “Psychological determinants of time
preference” (joint presentation with George Loewenstein).
September
2001, Carnegie-Bosch Conference on Managing Knowledge in Organizations, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Culture conflict and merger failure: An
experimental approach.”
October
2001, North American Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona. “Paying $1 to lose $2:
Misperceptions of the value of information in predicting the performance of
others.”
March
2002, University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Economics. “Cultural conflict and merger
failure: An experimental approach.”
March
2002, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, San Diego, California. “Cultural determinants of
economic voting in the 1994 German Federal Election.”
March
2002, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, San Diego, California. “Roundtable on Cognition
and Rational Choice.”
April
2002, Harvard Business School. “Paying $1 to lose $2:
Misperceptions of the value of information in predicting the performance of
others.”
June 2002, Conference on
Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Learning, Aix-En-Provence, France. “Culture conflict and merger failure: An
experimental approach.”
June 2002,
Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts. “Learning without feedback across
games.”
November
2002, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of
Industrial Administration. “Can groups
be trusted? An
experimental study of collective trust.”
January 2003, University of California at Los Angeles, The
Anderson School. “Re-creating ‘firms’ in the laboratory: Experiments on
organizational growth, culture, and mergers.”
February
2003, University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Economics. “Learning
without feedback: An experimental test across games.”
March
2003, Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science
Association, Nashville, Tennessee. “Learning without feedback:
An experimental test across games.”
March 2003,
Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society / Economic Science Association, Nashville, Tennessee. “Do people value being fair or not being
unfair? Behavior
inconsistent with “fairness preferences.”
March
2003, Workshop on Leadership and Social Interaction, Lyon, France. “Leadership and culture.”
April
2003, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. “Re-creating ‘firms’ in the
laboratory: Experiments on organizational growth, culture, and mergers.”
June 2003,
Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Learning and transfer of learning without
feedback: An experimental test across games.”
June 2003,
Annual Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Can groups be trusted? An
experimental study of collective trust.”
July 2003,
Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Lake
Tahoe, Nevada. “Exploiting moral wriggle room: Behavior
inconsistent with a
preference for fair outcomes.”
September
2003, Texas A&M University,
Economics Department. “Learning and transfer of
learning without feedback: An experimental test across games.”
November
2003, Case Western
Reserve University,
Department of Economics. “Feedback-free
learning in games.”
November
2003, University of California at Berkeley,
Department of Economics. “Moral
wriggling in decisions involving fairness.”
December
2003, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of
Industrial Administration. “Organizational
codes (and culture) in the laboratory.”
January
2004, Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, San
Diego, California. “Learning and transfer of learning without
feedback: An experimental test across games.”
February
2004, Princeton University,
Department of Economics. “Moral
wriggling in decisions involving fairness.”
April 2004, Emory University,
Department of Economics. “Moral
wriggling in decisions involving fairness.”
May 2004,
Annual Meetings of the Strategy Research Forum, Toronto, Ontario. “The effects
of organizational structure and codes on the performance of laboratory ‘firms.’”
June 2004, Annual Meetings of
the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. “The
effects of organizational structure and codes on the performance of laboratory
‘firms.’”
June 2004, Annual Meetings
of the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. “The observational and focusing
influences of social norms in dictator allocation decisions”
August
2004, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stanford University. “Favorable interpretations of ambiguity and
unstable preferences for fairness>”
August 2004,
Workshop on New and Alternative Directions for Learning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Reflective learning and transfer of learning
in games played repeatedly without feedback.”
December
2004, International Meetings on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Cordoba, Spain. “Sorting in decisions
involving fairness.”