Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics
Understanding Human Behavior in Economic Decision-Making Contexts
The Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (CLBOE) provides researchers in operations, economics and other social and management sciences with a laboratory environment in which the object of study can be manipulated in a controlled way (much as lab techniques are used in natural sciences).
The lab houses a computer network designed to simulate business activities such as markets and negotiations. Study subjects include auctions, inventory management, bargaining and dispute resolution, electronic markets, mechanism design and decision-support systems. UT Dallas faculty and students in the Jindal School of Management are welcome to use the CLBOE for research purposes. The CLBOE is also available to demonstrate games and markets to graduate students. First priority is given to research. Contact Us for more information.
Students Participate, Earn Cash and Help Science!
UT Dallas students from all departments and disciplines can sign up to participate in our experiments. Students will earn cash for their participation and benefit from a learning opportunity. Register to receive invitations for our forthcoming experimental sessions.
Seminars of Interest at UT Dallas
- LBOE Seminar Series
- Operations and Supply Chain Management Seminar Series
- Finance Seminar and Brown-Bag Sessions Seminar Series
- Connect with the Director
- Our Mission
- Members & Collaborators
- Seminars
- Using the Laboratory
- Related Resources
Connect with the Director
Welcome to Center and Laboratory of Behavioral Operations and Economics. Our intent is have a hub for researchers and maintain a professional lab for experiments. The center emphasizes the behavioral research that complements quantitative research and we encourage you to take advantage of our facility.
Our Mission
A hub for researchers at the intersection of operations management, managerial economics and marketing.
Some of the best work in behavioral research comes from cross-pollination of concepts and methods (including outside the realm of research presently considered behavioral). The CLBOE encourages cross-pollinations through researcher networking, seminars, workshops and joint grant proposals, as well as through collaborative PhD mentoring.
Promote behavioral research that complements quantitative research.
Most important strides in behavioral research have resulted from a focus on testing quantitative models or from using behavioral findings to fashion new quantitative models. The center builds on UTD’s strength in a quantitative approach to research targeted to top journals.
Maintain a computer laboratory devoted to experimental testing.
The laboratory environment is controlled and can maintain conditions that are conducive to exploring new ideas and concepts. The lab is open to use by researchers across the Jindal School of Management and beyond.
Innovation for learning excellence.
The CLBOE actively promotes the transition of software and related tools from behavioral research to interactive learning tools for the classroom. The lab also provides research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students through collaborative efforts with research faculty.
Resources for growth.
The CLBOE promotes grant proposals to national agencies such as the National Science Foundation and private agencies such as the Russell Sage Foundation.
Outreach and interaction with the business community.
An important trend in behavior research is the establishment of methods to translate basic research findings into applied science. CBLOE actively promotes connections with the Dallas business community.
Members & Collaborators
| Name | Position/Title |
|---|---|
| Gary E. Bolton | Om Prakash Jindal Chair Professor of Managerial Economics Co-Director, Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (LBOE) |
| Bernhard Ganglmair | Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics |
| Ernan E. Haruvy | Associate Professor of Marketing |
| Kyle Hyndman | Assistant Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics |
| Elena Katok | Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management Co-Director, Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (LBOE) |
| Xin (Sherry) Li | As sistant Professor of Economics |
| Özalp Özer | Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Science Director of PhD program in Operations Management |
| Anyan Qi | Assistant Professor of Operations Management |
| Name | Position/Title |
|---|---|
| Mrunal Hadke | Lab Manager |
| Bahriye Cesaret | Doctoral Student, Operations Management |
| Blair Flicker | Doctoral Student, Operations Management |
| Sina Shokoohyar | Doctoral Student, Operations Management |
| Yulia Vorotyntseva | Doctoral Student, Operations Management |
| Name | School/University |
|---|---|
| Rajshree Agarwal | R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Dan Ariely | The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
| Michael Becker-Peth | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Damian R. Beil | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| Uri Ben-Zion | Economics Department, Ben Gurion University, Israel |
| Jordi Brandts | Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, UAB, Spain |
| Gary B. Charness | Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Kay-Yut Chen | University of Texas at Arlington |
| James C. Cox | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University |
| Rachel Croson | College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington |
| Andrew M. Davis | Samuel C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University |
| Arnaud DeBruyn | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Karen Donohue | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota |
| Wedad Elmaghraby | R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans | College of Business at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Uri Gneezy | Rady School of Management, University of California at San Diego (La Jolla) |
| Ben Greiner | School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Glenn W. Harrison | J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University |
| Sandy D. Jap | Goizueta Business School, Emory University |
| Emin Karagozoglu | Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Turkey |
| Anthony M. Kwasnica | Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Kathleen McGinn | Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Axel Ockenfels | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Tava Olsen | Business School, The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Elie Ofek | Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Valery Pavlov | Business School, The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc | Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, University of Alberta, Canada |
| Yufei Ren | Department of Economics, Union College |
| Alvin E. Roth | Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Timothy C. Salmon | Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University |
| Natalia Santamaria | Industrial Engineering–Center for Optimization and Applied Probability, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia |
| Kenneth L. Schultz | Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology |
| Enno Siemsen | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota |
| Dale O. Stahl | Economics Department, University of Texas at Austin |
| Ulrich W. Thonemann | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Achim Wambach | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Zhixi Wan | College of Business at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Peter Werner | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Yan (Diana) Wu | School of Business, University of Kansas |
| Muhamet Yildiz | Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Cesar Zamudio | Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Yanchong (Karen) Zheng | MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Rami Zwick | The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Riverside |
Seminar
The Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (LBOE) at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts in behavioral research presenting their latest work on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today. The LBOE Seminars are held every Monday 11:30 AM -1:00 PM in JSOM 1.517 Fall and Spring semester.
For information about attending, please contact Joan Fritz.
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Current Academic Year
2015 – 2016
Spring 2016 Date Name Affiliation Title 02/01/16 Jordan Tong University of Wisconsin Bounded Cognition and Representatives in Forecasting 02/08/16 Corinne Low University of Pennsylvania Pricing the Biological Clock: Reproductive Capital on the US Marriage Market
02/15/16 Rudy Santore University of Tennessee, Knoxville Whistle-blowers, Amnesty, and Managerial Fraud: An Experimental Investigation 02/22/16 Kalyan Chatterjee Pennsylvania State University Bilateral trading and incomplete information: The Coase conjecture in a small market
04/11/16 Tracy Liu Tsinghua University/University of Arkansas Selling Multiple Units: An Experimental Study
04/25/16 Victoria Prowse Cornell University First-place loving and last-place loathing: How rank in the distribution of performance affects effort provision
Fall 2015 Date Name Affiliation Title 08/24/15 Wolfgang Luhan University of Bochum Am I my peer’s keeper?
Social Responsibility in Financial Decision Making09/14/15 Tony Kwasnica Pennsylvania State University Aggregate Sentiment and Investment:
An Experimental Study
09/21/15 Peter Coles eBay Income Mobility and Distribution in E-Commerce:
The Case of eBay Sellers
09/28/15 Yesim Orhun University of Michigan Reciprocating to Strategic Kindness
10/05/15 Diana Wu University of Kansas Power and Fairness
10/12/15 Eugen Dimant University of Paderborn and Harvard On Peer Effects: Behavioral Contagion of (Un)Ethical
Behavior and the Role of Social Identity
11/16/15 Guillaume Roels UCLA Anderson School of Management The Design of Experimental Services with Acclimation and Memory Services with Acclimation and Memory Decay: Optimal Sequence and Duration
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2014 – 2015
Fall 2015 LBOE Seminars Date Name Affiliation 08/31/2015 Wolfgang J. Luhan University of Bochum 09/14/15 Anthony Kwasnica PennState University 09/21/15 Peter Coles Ebay 09/28/15 Yesim Orhun University of Michigan 10/05/15 Diana Wu University of Kansas 10/12/15 Eugen Dimant University of Paderborn & Harvard University 11/16/15 Guillaume Roels UCLA Anderson School of Management
Date Name Affiliation 10/06/2014 Sarah Jacobson Williams College 10/13/2014 Min Ding Pennsylvania State University
Artificial Empathy10/20/2014 Ellen P. Green Arizona State University 10/27/2014 Bahriye Cesaret The University of Texas at Dallas
A Behavioral Study of Capacity Allocation in Revenue Management11/03/2014 Yaroslav Rosokha Purdue University 11/10/2014 Jason Aimone Baylor University 11/17/2014 Basak Kalkanci Georgia Tech University 12/01/2014 Anya Samek University of Wisconsin-Madison 03/02/2015 Nikolay Osadchiy Emery University
Behavioral Anomalies in Consumer Wait-or-Buy Decisions and Their Implications for Market Management03/09/2015 Christos A. Ioannou University of Southampton
An Experimental Study of Uncertainty in Coordination Games03/23/2015 Karen Y. Zheng MIT Sloan School of Management 03/30/2015 Danila Serra Southern Methodist University 04/06/2015 Sheen S. Levine University of Texas at Dallas 04/13/2015 John H. Kagel Ohio State University 04/20/2015 Yesim Orhun University of Michigan 04/27/2015 Diana Wu University of Kansas -
2013 – 2014
Date Guest Lecturer Presentation Title 04/28/2014 Tanjim Hossain, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. 04/07/2014 Xuanming Su, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. 03/24/2014 Anna Popova A Multi-Peaked Model of Preferences 03/17/2014 Erkut Ozbay, University of Maryland, Department of Economics How Do Elected and Appointed Policymakers Act When in Office? Experimental Evidence on Citizens, Candidates, and Leaders. 03/03/2014 Saurabh Bansal, PennState’s SMEAL College of Business 02/24/2014 Rami Zwick, University of California, Riverside; School of Business Administration “Pay What You Want” as Threshold Public Good Provision 02/17/2014 Tim Salmon, Southern Methodist University’s Department of Economics Sabotage vs Discouragement: Which Dominates Post Promotion Tournament Behavior? 02/10/2014 Bernhard Ganglmair, The University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management Dynamic Information Sharing: An Experiment 02/03/2014 Jordi Brandts, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Stand by Me: Experiments on Help and Commitment in Coordination Games 01/27/2014 Andy Schotter, New York University, Center for Experimental Social Science Matching and Chatting: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Network Communication on School-Matching Mechanisms 12/02/2013 Tony Cui, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management Fairness Ideals in Distribution Channel 11/18/2013 Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto; Rotman School of Management When to Exit: Limited Rationality in Firm Decisions 11/11/2013 Noah Myung, Naval Postgraduate School The Combinatorial Retention Auction Mechanism 11/04/2013 Anton Ovchinnikov, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Insights in ‘Environmental Taxes and the Choice of Green Technology’ and ‘Coordinating Pricing and Supply of Public Interest Goods Using Rebates and Subsidies’ 10/28/2013 Zhixi Wan, University of Illinois, College of Business Using Procurement Service Providers in Supplier Screening 10/21/2013 John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley; Haas School of Business Strategic and Natural Risk in Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study. 10/14/2013 Yan Chen, University of Michigan, School of Information From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms 09/30/2013 Lijia Tan, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, China. An experimental investigation of auctions and bargaining in procurement 09/23/2013 Kay-Yut Chen, HP Labs Bounded Rationality in Operations: Theory, Experiment, and Practice 09/09/2013 Weded Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business The Impact of Starting Price and Inventory on Auction Prices: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Online B2B Secondary Market Auctions -
Past Seminars
Date Guest Lecturer 11/13/2012 Ben Greiner (UNSW), 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., JSOM 1.302
“Bargaining, Asymmetric Information and Communication An Experiment”11/12/2012 Enno Siemsen (University of Minnesota), 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m., JSOM 1.517
“The Sum and Its Parts: A Behavioral Investigation of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Forecasting Processes”10/19/2012 Damian Beil (University of Michigan), 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., JSOM 2.115
“The Role of Cost Modeling in Competitive Bid Procurement”
Using the Laboratory
How to conduct an experiment at LBOE
Faculty from the Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas, as well as colleagues at other institutions, are welcome to use the LBOE for their research. LBOE is also available to demonstrate games and markets to MS, MBA and PhD students. Please start by reading the Laboratory Usage Guidelines document.
If you want to conduct research at LBOE facilites, after your research is approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), please contact a LBOE co-director to request authorization to use the lab facilities. After your request has been approved, you will be able to Login and sign up to conduct an experiment.