Timothy C. Salmon

Southern Methodist University
Department of Economics
3300 Dyer Street
Suite 301, Umphrey Lee Center
Dallas TX 75275-0496
Work: 214-768-3547
Fax: 214-768-1821
http://faculty.smu.edu/tsalmon/
tsalmon@smu.edu

Education

The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1999.
The Johns Hopkins University, MA in Economics, 1996.
The University of Texas at Austin, BA from Plan II, 1994.

Professional Employment

Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics
  • Professor, August 2011-
The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics
  • Visiting Scholar, August 2010-December 2010
Florida State University, Department of Economics
  • Assistant Professor, August 2000-August 2006
  • Associate Professor, August 2006-August 2011
The California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics, July 1999 - July 2000
  • Sponsors: Tom Palfrey and Simon Wilkie
The Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Auctions and Industry Analysis Division
  • Economist, June 1998- July 1999
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, Baltimore, MD
  • Lecturer, for Masters of Applied Economics Program in Washington DC, spring 1999
  • Lecturer, summer 1998

Professional Service

Director of Doctoral Studies, SMU Department of Economics. 2014-2020

Economic Inquiry, Editor, 2021-
                                co-editor, 2011-2021

Experimental Economics, Editorial Board, 2009-

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Associate Editor, 2013-2017

Review of Behavioral Economics, Associate Editor, 2013-

Southern Economic Journal,  Associate Editor, 2014-

Economic Science Association, Treasurer, 2012-2017

Economic Science Association, Member Executive Committee 2008-2011

Director of the xs/fs Lab at Florida State, 2000-2011


Publications


  1. Salmon, Timothy C. An Evaluation of Econometric Models of Adaptive Learning, Econometrica, Vol. 69, No. 6 (2001): 1597-1628.

  2. Plott, Charles and Timothy C. Salmon. The Simultaneous, Ascending Auction: Dynamics of Price Adjustment in Experiments and in the U.K. 3G Spectrum Auction, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 53, No. 3 (2004): 353-383.

  3. Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta and Timothy C. Salmon. Bidder Preferences Among Auction Institutions, Economic Inquiry, Vol 42 (2004):223-236.

  4. Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta and Timothy C. Salmon. Entry Fees and Endogenous Entry in Electronic Auctions, Electronic Markets, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2004): 170-177.

  5. Salmon, Timothy C. Evidence for Learning to Learn Behavior in Normal Form Games, Theory and Decision Vol. 56, No. 4 (2004): 367-404.

  6. Salmon, Timothy C. Preventing Collusion Between Firms in Auctions, In Auctioning Public Assets: Analysis and Alternatives, Edited by M.C.W. Janssen, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521830591.

  7. Salmon, Timothy C. Spectrum Auctions by the United States Federal Communications Commission In Auctioning Public Assets: Analysis and Alternatives, Edited by M.C.W. Janssen, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521830591.

  8. Isaac, R. Mark, Timothy C. Salmon and Arthur Zillante. An Experimental Test of Alternative Models of Bidding in Ascending Auctions, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2005):287-313.

  9. Isaac, R. Mark, Timothy C. Salmon and Arthur Zillante. A Theory of Jump Bidding in Ascending Auctions, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2007): 144-164.

  10. Salmon, Timothy C. and R. Mark Isaac. Revenue from the Saints, the Showoffs, and the Predators: Comparisons of Auctions with Price-Preference Values, in Research in Experimental Economics, vol 11. Experiments in Fundraising and Charitable Contributions. Edited by R. Mark Isaac and Douglas Davis. Elsevier JAI Press, 2006: 1-30.

  11. Salmon, Timothy C. and Bart Wilson. Second Chance Offers Vs. Sequential Auctions: Theory and Behavior, Economic Theory, Vol 34, No. 1 (2008): 47-67.

  12. Salmon, Timothy C. and Michael Iachini. Continuous Ascending Vs. Pooled Mutliple Unit Auctions, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 61, No. 1 (2007): 67-85.

  13. Ahn, T.K., Mark Isaac and Timothy C. Salmon. Endogenous Group Formation, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2008): 171-194.

  14. Karni, Edi, Timothy C. Salmon and Barry Sopher. Individual Sense of Fairness: An Experimental Analysis, Experimental Economics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2008): 174-189.

  15. Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta and Timothy C. Salmon. Revenue Equivalence Revisited. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 64, No. 1 (2008): 171-192.

  16. Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta and Timothy C. Salmon. Robustness of Bidder Preferences Among Auction Institutions, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2008): 355-368.

  17. Ahn, T.K., Mark Isaac and Timothy C. Salmon. Coming and Going: Experiments on Endogenous Group Sizes for Excludable Public Goods. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 93, No. 1-2 (2009): 336-351.

  18. Isaac, R. Mark, Svetlana Pevnitskaya and Timothy C Salmon. Do Preferences for Charitable Giving Help Auctioneers? Experimental Economics Vol. 13, No. 1 (2010):14-44.

  19. Ahn, T.K., R, Mark Isaac and Timothy C. Salmon. Rent Seeking in Groups. The International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 29, No. 1 (2011): 116-125.

  20. Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta and Timothy C. Salmon. The High/Low Divide: Self-Selection by Values in Auction Choice. Games and Economic Behavior. Vol 73, No. 1 (2011): 200-214.

  21. Esarey, Justin, Timothy C. Salmon and Charles Barrilleaux. What Motivates Political Preferences? Self-Interest, Ideology, and Fairness in a Laboratory Democracy. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 50, No. 3 (2012): 604-624.

  22. Esarey, Justin, Charles Barrilleaux and Timothy C. Salmon. Social Insurance and Income Redistribution in a Laboratory Experiment. Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 65, No. 3 (2012): 685-698.

  23. Ku, Hyejin and Timothy C. Salmon. The Incentive Effects of Inequality: An Experimental Investigation. Southern Economic Journal. Vol. 79, No. 1 (2012): 46-70.

  24. Prasad, Kislaya and Timothy C. Salmon. Self-Selection and Market Power in Risk Sharing Contracts. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 90 (2013): 71-86.

  25. Ku, Hyejin and Timothy C. Salmon. Procedural Fairness and the Tolerance for Income Inequality. European Economic Review. Vol 64 (2013):111-128.

  26. Macpherson, David, Kislaya Prasad and Timothy C. Salmon. Deferred Compensation Vs. Efficiency Wages: An Experimental Test of Effort Provision and Self-Selection. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 102, (2014): 90-107.

  27. Chang, Wei-Shiun, Bo Chen and Timothy C. Salmon. An Investigation of the Average Bid Mechanism for Procurement Auctions. Management Science. Vol. 61 No 6 (2014): 1237-1254.

  28. Johnson, David and Timothy C. Salmon. Sabotage vs Discouragement: Which Dominates Post Promotion Tournament Behavior? The Southern Economic Journal.
    Vol. 82 No. 3 (2016): 673-696.

  29. Chang, Wei-Shiun, Timothy C. Salmon and Krista Jabs Saral. Procurement Auctions with Renegotiation and Wealth Constraints. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 54 No. 3 (2016): 1684-1704.

  30. Salmon, Timothy C. and Roberto Weber. Maintaining Efficiency While Integrating Entrants From Lower-Performing Environments: An Experimental Study.  Economic Journal. Vol. 127 (2017) 417-444.

  31. Salmon, Timothy C. and Danila Serra. Corruption, Social Judgment and Culture: An Experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 142 (2017): 64-78.

  32. Salmon, Timothy C. and Adam Shniderman, Ambiguity in Criminal Punishment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 163 (2019): 361-376.

  33. de Oliveira, Angela C. M., Timothy C. Salmon, John O. Ledyard, Charles R. Plott and Louis Putterman. Introduction to the Symposium on Research on Social Dilemmas. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 58 No. 1 (2020): 9-11.

  34. Cheung, Ron, Timothy C. Salmon and Kuangli Xie, Homeowner Associations and City Cohesion. Regional Science and Urban Economics. Vol. 93 (2022): 1-16.

  35. Salmon, Timothy C. The Case for Data Archives at Journals. Harvard Data Science Review, 5(3) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.db2a2554



In Press

  1. Dutcher, Glenn, Regine Oexl, Dmitry Ryvkin and Timothy C. Salmon. Do Competitive Bonuses Ruin Cooperation in Heterogeneous Teams. Forthcoming Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

Working Papers

  1. Dutcher, Glenn, Timothy C. Salmon and Krista Jabs Saral. Is "Real" Effort More Real?

  2. Gómez-Vásquez, Daniel, Miranda Lambert, Timothy C. Salmon and Danila Serra, Can Different Communication Methods Decrease Gender Bias in the Workplace?

  3. Gómez-Vásquez, Daniel , Timothy C.Salmon and Danila Serra. Reaching for the Stars? An Experiment on Discrimination in Hiring.

  4. Chen, Hang and Timothy C Salmon. The Plight of Middle Managers

  5. Cunningham, William and Timothy C. Salmon. Impact of Hurdle Rate Contracts on Risk Taking in Investing in Entrepreneurs.

  6. Bokhari, Farasat, Sean Ennis,Timothy C. Salmon and Carlos Vega. Dynamic Reserve Prices in Procurement: An Experiment.

  7. Bokhari, Farasat, Sean Ennis,Timothy C. Salmon and Carlos Vega. Grim Trigger or Cost Shifter: Dynamic Medicine Auctions in the Philippines.


Honors and Awards


  1. National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research: Incentives in the Workplace - An Experimental Examination of How Wage Differences Across Time and Among Peers Affect Productivity and Self-Selection, with Hyejin Ku, David Macpherson and Kislaya Prasad. $496,579. 3 year grant funded by the Innovation & Organizational Sciences Division. August 2009-August 2013.

  2. National Science Foundation - Explaining Preferences for Social Insurance and Redistribution in a Laboratory Democracy, with Charles Barrilleaux and Justin Esarey. $108,868. 1 year grant funded by the Political Science Division. January 2007.

  3. National Science Foundation - An Experimental Investigation of Endogenous Group Formation for Public-Good Provision and Risk-Sharing, with Mark Isaac, Kislaya Prasad and T.K. Ahn. $415,875. 3 year grant. Funded by Decision, Risk and Management Science Division and Economics Division.

  4. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-99 School Year (unable to accept due to administrative conflict)

  5. The National Science Foundation - Dissertation Improvement Grant - Decision, Risk and Management Science Division, June 1998

  6. The Russell Sage Foundation - Grant from the Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics, September 1997

Reviewer For


Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Theory, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Experimental Economics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Management Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Decision Analysis, The Southern Economic Journal, Psychological Science, Telecommunication Policy, Wiley and Sons, National Science Foundation

Professional Affiliations

 The American Economic Association, The Economic Science Association, The Game Theory Society, The Econometric society

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