Svetlana Pevnitskaya
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Bellamy Building 257
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180
Office: (850) 645-1525
Fax: (850) 644-4535
E-mail:
spevnitskaya@fsu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 5-6pm and by appointment
Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomic Theory, Auctions, Game Theory, Experimental and Behavioral
Economics
CV
Experimental Social Science at FSU:
xs/fs labs
Papers:
An Initial Implementation of the Turing Tournament to Learning in Repeated
Two Person Games, with Jasmina Arifovic and Richard McKelvey -
Games and Economics Behavior, 2006, 57, (1), 93-122
Endogenous Entry and Self-selection in Private Value Auctions: An
Experimental Study, with Thomas Palfrey - Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, in press
(earlier version of this paper is Caltech Social Science Working Paper No.1172, 2003)
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Survival Auctions, with John Kagel and
Lixin Ye - Economic Theory, in press
Endogenous Entry in First-Price Private Value Auctions: the Self-Selection
Effect,
Indicative Bidding: An Experimental Analysis, 2006 with John Kagel and
Lixin Ye - accepted, Games and Economic Behavior
Bidder Behavior in Sealed Bid Auctions Where the Number of Bidders is Unknown, with Mark
Isaac and Kurt Schnier
Individual Behavior in Auctions with Price Proportional Benefits, with Mark Isaac and Tim Salmon
Work in Progress:
Impact of Seller Reputation in Ascending Auctions, with Alexey Ravichev
A Study of Thoroughbred Auctions, with Caroline Betts and Ergin Bayrak
Impact of Beliefs and Risk Preferences on Bidding in Auctions
Courses:
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory , F2005, S2006, F2006, F2007
Game Theory, F2006, S2007, F2007, S2008, F2008
Microeconomic Theory II (Ph.D.), S2006
Experimental Economics Reading Group, S2007
Other