Prof. Cary Deck is an affiliate of the Economic Science Institute. He is a professor of economics in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas where he is also the Director of the Behavioral Business Research Laboratory. His research uses controlled laboratory experiments to investigate a wide array of topics from market institutions to individual choice behavior. Dr. Deck’s work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Federal Trade Commission and has been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Information Systems Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies among others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001 and has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics in Prague and an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury. He currently serves as the Co-Editor for the Southern Economic Journal and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Prof. Kyle Hampton is a professor and Director of the Center of Economics studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). He received his Ph.D in Economics from George Mason University and did his undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Economics at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Hampton’s research focused on areas such as Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Microeconomics and International Markets. He currently is an active member in the Alaska Council on Economic Education as well as a participant in various organizations within UAA.

Prof. James Murphy is a Professor of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Prior to arriving at UAA, he was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis and studied experimental economics as a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Arizona. As part of a university partnership to develop a new experimental economics program in China, he is also a visiting professor at Nankai University and Chairman of their new Nankai Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory. Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the use of experimental methods to address environmental policy and natural resource management issues.He is an active board member of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, and is on the editorial board for both the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Strategic Behavior and the Environment. He was a member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee from 2011-2013.

Dr. Olga Rud is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(RMIT). Prior to arriving at RMIT, Dr. Rud has worked as professor and research fellow in universities such as University of Melbourne, Hamilton College, Bates College, and City University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and her masters’ degree in Economics from Miami University. Her research interests include experiments in financial decision-making and market design.