Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics

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

Seminars
Using the Laboratory
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Welcome to the Center and Laboratory of Behavioral Operations and Economics. Our intent is to have a hub for researchers and maintain a professional lab for experiments. The center emphasizes behavioral research that complements quantitative research, and we encourage you to take advantage of our facility.

Our Mission

Some of the best work in behavioral research comes from the cross-pollination of concepts and methods (including outside the realm of research presently considered behavioral).The CLBOE encourages cross-pollination through researcher networking, seminars, workshops and joint grant proposals, as well as through collaborative PhD mentoring.

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.

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.

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.

The CLBOE promotes grant proposals to national agencies such as the National Science Foundation and private agencies such as the Russell Sage Foundation.

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)
Paul Cheung	Associate Professor
Andrew Frazelle	Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Kyle Hyndman	Associate Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics
Elena Katok	Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management Co-Director, Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics (LBOE)
Özalp Özer	Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Science
Anyan Qi	Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Simon Siegenthaler	Associate Professor of Economics
Ignacio Andres Rios Uribe	Assistant Professor, Operations Management


Name	Position/Title
Jiayu Chen	Doctoral Student, Operations Management
Wen Zhang	Doctoral Student, Operations Management
Blair Flicker	Doctoral Student, Operations Management


Name	School/University
Rajshree Agarwal	R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park
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	Michigan State University
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	University of Vienna
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	Stanford University
Timothy C. Salmon	Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University
Kenneth L. Schultz	Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology
Enno Siemsen	University of Wisconsin
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	Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW)
Zhixi Wan	University of Oregon
Peter Werner	Maastricht University
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

Seminars

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 11:30a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in JSOM 11.214 Fall and Spring semester.

For information about attending, please contact Tiffany Matthews.

Current Academic Year

Fall 2019
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
09/23/2019	Dennis Zhang	Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School	Customer Choice Models versus Machine Learning: Finding Optimal Product Displays on Alibaba
09/30/2019	Andrew Davis	Cornell University, SC Johnson College of Business	Managing Multilocation Demand in Supply Chains: An Experimental Investigation
10/07/2019	Erik Snowberg	California Institute of Technology	Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
11/11/2019	Zana Cranmer	Bentley University	Use less and green the rest: Lowering barriers to energy efficiency and renewable energy
11/18/2019	Cary Frydman	University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business	Efficient Coding and Risky Choice
12/02/2019	Alexander Brown	Texas A&M University

Fall 2018
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
11/12/18	Hyun-soo Ahn	University of Michigan	Capturing Consumer & Firm Behavior in OM Models
11/17/18	Basak Kalkanci	Georgia Institute of Technology	Bounded Rationality and Reference Dependence in Supply Chain Interactions
11/26/18	Leeat Yariv	Princeton University	Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

Spring 2019
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
02/18/19	Christine Exley	Harvard Business School	Persistently Insecure: the gender gap in self-esteem
02/25/19	Ellen Peters	Ohio State University	Being objectively numerate is not enough: Good financial and medical outcomes depend on numeric confidence
03/04/19	Barry Sopher	Rutgers University	Intertemporal Planning with Subjective Uncertainty, or Anticipating Your Lazy, Disorganized Self
03/11/19	Evgeny Kagan	Johns Hopkins Carey Business School	Designing Incentives in Startup Teams: Form and Timing of Equity Contracting
03/25/19	David Rand	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced wisdom of new source quality and Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than motivated reasoning
04/01/19	Kaj Thomsson	Maastricht University	Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines
04/08/19	Matthew Walker	Durham University	Trust Mechanisms and Moral Hazard Mitigation in Procurement
04/15/19	Shervin Tehrani	University of Texas at Dallas	A Heuristic Approach to Explore: The Value of Perfect Information
04/22/19	Isabel Trevino	University of California, San Diego	Information choice, transparency, and coordination: An experimental study
04/29/19	Aly Megahed	IBM	2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science

Fall 2017
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
09/18/17	Yulia Vorotyntseva and Sina Shokoohyar	University of Texas at Dallas	Can Managers Plan Assortments? An experimental study and Project Management uner Risk-Sharing Contracts
09/25/17	David V. Budescu	Fordham University	Identifying Expertise and the Wisdom of Selected Crowds
10/02/17	Keith Ericson	Boston University	Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
10/09/17	Pelin Pekgun	University of South Carolina	Does Forecast-Accuracy Based Allocation Induce Customers to Share Truthful Order Forecasts?
11/06/17	Julian Romero	University of Arizona	Constructing Strategies in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game
11/27/17	Ozge Sahin	Johns Hopkins University	Conditional Promotions and Consumer Overspending

Spring 2018
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
01/16/18	Drew D. Creal	University of Chicago	Multihorizon currency returns and Purchasing Power Parity
01/29/18	Sally Sadoff	University of California San Diego	Improving College Instruction through Incentives
02/05/18	Mirko Kremer	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Mismanaging the quality-speed tradeoff in congested environments
02/12/18	Charles Noussair	University of Arizona	Mismanaging the quality-speed tradeoff in congested environments
04/02/18	Raymond Fisman	Boston University	The stability of distributional preferences
04/09/18	Pietro Ortoleva	Princeton University	Competing Models
04/16/18	Kent Grayson	Northwestern University	Agency Relationships At 20,000 Feet
04/23/18	Tom Tan	Southern Methodist University	At Your Service on the Table: Impact of Tabletop Technology on Restaurant Performance

Fall 2016
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
09/12/16	Jason Shachat	Durham University	The Market Allocation of Strategic Positions and the Destruction of Trust
09/19/16	Yefim Roth	Technion – Israel Instititue of Technology	Click or Skip: The Role of Experience in Easy-Click Checking Decisions
09/26/16	Ragan Petrie	George Mason	Time to Give: A Field Experiment on intertemporal Charitable Giving
10/03/16	Bhatia Sudeep	University of Pennsylvania	Studying Everyday Multiattribute Choice
10/10/16	Karthik Ramachandran	Georgia Institute of Technology	Dynamics of Delegated Search
10/17/16	Emily Choi	University of Texas at Dallas	Trust Among Executives
10/24/16	Guillaume Frechette	New York University	Rules and Commitment in Communication
10/31/16	PhD Student Presentations	University of Texas at Dallas	Social Information and Gender Differences in Competitive Preferences and Stock Options in Executive Compensation Given Firm Competitions
11/07/16	Dan Benjamin	University of South California	Reconsidering Risk Aversion
11/28/16	Xenophon Koufteros	Texas A&M University	Supply Management & Ethical Decision Making: A Behavioral Experiment
12/05/16	John Duffy	University of California – Irvine	Adoption of a New Payment Method: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Spring 2017
Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
02/20/17	Ragan Petrie	Texas A&M University	Time to Give: A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Charitable Giving
02/27/17	Justin Sydnor	University of Wisconsin – Madison	Simplifying Health Insurance Choice with Consequence Graphs
03/20/17	Achal Bassamboo	Northwestern University	Learning from Inventory Availability Information: Field Evidence from Amazon
03/27/17	Ryan Buell	Harvard Business School	Surfacing the Submerged State: Operation Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government
04/03/17	Cary Deck	University of Arkansas ; Fayetteville	The Effect of Different Cognitive Manipulations on Decision Making
04/10/17	PhD Student Presentations		Integrating Managerial Insight and Optimal Algorithms and On the value of added surcharge
04/17/17	Ozge Sahin	Johns Hopkins University	Conditional Promotions and Consumer Overspending

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 Making
09/14/15	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

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

Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 LBOE Seminars
Date	Name	Affiliation
10/06/2014	Sarah Jacobson	Williams College
10/13/2014	Min Ding	Pennsylvania State University Artificial Empathy
10/20/2014	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 Management
11/03/2014	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 Management
03/09/2015	Christos A. Ioannou	University of Southampton An Experimental Study of Uncertainty in Coordination Games
03/23/2015	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

Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 LBOE Seminars
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

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 facilities 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.

Related Resources

Zurich Toolbox for Readymade Economic Experiments (z-Tree) Official Website
Economic Science Association