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Overview

David Porter is affiliated with Chapman University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Decision Sciences, and Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Finance, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's scholarly work covers several main topics, including:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Economic Theories and Models
  • Psychology of Social Influence
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems

David Porter has published extensively, contributing to a range of academic venues. Most frequently, their work appears in the SSRN Electronic Journal, followed by publications in Management Science, Journal of Behavioral Finance, European Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • Information aggregation and the cognitive make-up of market participants (2021, European Economic Review)
  • Forecasting Skills in Experimental Markets: Illusion or Reality? (2021, Management Science)
  • Let's Chat... When Communication Promotes Efficiency in Experimental Asset Markets (2023, Management Science)
  • Effects of experience, choice architecture, and cognitive reflection in strategyproof mechanisms (2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)
  • Reference dependent prices in bargaining: An experimental examination of precise first offers (2021, Journal of Economic Psychology)

Collaborations form an important part of David Porter's research profile. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mark DeSantis
  • Brice Corgnet
  • Erik O. Kimbrough
  • Mark Schneider
  • Hao Zhao

Best Publications

  • Allocating uncertain and unresponsive resources: an experimental approach.

    Jeffrey S. Banks;John O. Ledyard;David P. Porter

  • A New and Improved Design for Multiobject Iterative Auctions

    Anthony M. Kwasnica;John O. Ledyard;Dave Porter;Christine DeMartini

  • Futures Contracting and Dividend Uncertainty in Experimental Asset Markets

    David P. Porter;Vernon L. Smith

  • The First Use of a Combined-Value Auction for Transportation Services

    John O. Ledyard;Mark Olson;David Porter;Joseph A. Swanson

  • Combinatorial auction design

    David P. Porter;Stephen J. Rassenti;Anil Roopnarine;Vernon L. Smith

  • Financial Bubbles: Excess Cash, Momentum, and Incomplete Information

    Gunduz Caginalp;David Porter;Vernon Smith

  • Information aggregation and manipulation in an experimental market

    Robin Hanson;Ryan Oprea;David Porter

  • Thar She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?

    Reshmaan N. Hussam;David P. Porter;Vernon L. Smith

  • Experiments Testing Multiobject Allocation Mechanisms

    John O. Ledyard;David Porter;Antonio Rangel

  • Stock market bubbles in the laboratory

    David P. Porter;Vernon L. Smith

  • Theory, experiment and the federal communications commission spectrum auctions

    Jeffrey Banks;Mark Olson;David Porter;Stephen Rassenti

  • Initial cash/asset ratio and asset prices: An experimental study

    Gunduz Caginalp;David Porter;Vernon L. Smith

  • An Experimental Analysis of Nash Refinements in Signaling Games

    Jeffrey S. Banks;Colin F. Camerer;David Porter

  • The effect of earned versus house money on price bubble formation in experimental asset markets

    Brice Corgnet;Roberto Hernán-González;Praveen Kujal;David Porter

  • A New and Improved Design For Multi-Object Iterative Auctions

    Christine DeMartini;Anthony M. Kwasnica;John O. Ledyard;David Porter

  • Momentum and overreaction in experimental asset markets

    Gunduz Caginalp;David Porter;Vernon Smith

  • An experimental analysis of the bandit problem

    Jeffrey Banks;Mark Olson;David Porter

  • What Makes a Good Trader? On the Role of Intuition and Reflection on Trader Performance

    Brice Corgnet;Mark Desantis;David Porter

  • The design, testing and implementation of Virginia's NOx allowance auction

    David Porter;Stephen J. Rassenti;William Shobe;Vernon L. Smith

  • An Experimental Analysis of Unanimity in Public Goods Provision Mechanisms

    Jeffrey S. Banks;Charles R. Plott;David P. Porter

  • Overreaction, Momentum, Liquidity, and Price Bubbles in Laboratory and Field Asset Markets

    Gunduz Caginalp;David Porter;Vernon L. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Rangel
Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology

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