Department of Economics, Washington University in St Louis


 Patrick McAlvanah
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Campus Box 1208
Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

E-mail:  pmcalvanah@wustl.edu
Phone:  314-387-0048

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis and am on the job market in the fall of '07.  My primary research fields are Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, and Experimental Economics.   My CV and the latest versions of my working papers can be accessed below.
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Research

    Working papers:

    Subadditivity, Patience, and Utility: The Effects of Dividing Time Intervals  (Job Market Paper)

    Are People More Risk-Taking in the Presence of the Opposite Sex?  Under submission.

    Quasi-hyperbolic is Quasi-correct: Considerations for Modeling Temporal Discounting with the Quasi-Hyperbolic Function  (with Leonard Green and Joel Myerson)


    Work in progress:

    Implications of Subadditivity for the Temporal Discount Function

    Two Wrongs Can Make a Right: Opposite Biases Can Approximate Rationality (with John Nye)

    A Common Approach to the Gain/Loss Asymmetry, Delay/Speed-Up Asymmetry, and Magnitude Effect

    Temporal Inconsistency and the Magnitude Effect

Teaching

Course Websites:

    Behavioral Economics (Summer 2007)


Last Updated: September 2007