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

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Research Interests:

Applied Microeconomic Theory, Auctions, Game Theory, Experimental and Behavioral Economics

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Experimental Social Science at FSU:

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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) .
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

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