Angela M. Smith

Department of Economics
University of Virginia

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ANGELA M. SMITH
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Department of Economics
University of Virginia
PO Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904

Office Phone: (434) 924-3459

Cell Phone: (434) 466-5354

Email: angelasmith@virginia.edu

Web: www.people.virginia.edu/~akm9a

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia
M.A. in Economics, University of Virginia
B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, College of William and Mary
    Minor in Mathematics

expected May 2008
January 2005
May 2005

 

 

DISSERTATION

 

                                 An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts

Committee:           Charles A. Holt                          cah2k@virginia.edu          

                            Federico Ciliberto                      ciliberto@virginia.edu        

                            Simon P. Anderson                    sa9w@virginia.edu      

 

(434) 924-7894

(434) 924-6755

(434) 924-3861

 

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

 

 Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“An Update on Bayesian Updating” (with Charles A. Holt), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

 

“The Newsvendor Pull-to-Center Effect: Adaptive Learning in a Laboratory Experiment” (with AJ A. Bostian and Charles A. Holt), forthcoming in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

 

“Coordination of Strategic Responses to Security Threats: Laboratory Evidence” (with Rachel O. Hess and Charles A. Holt), Experimental Economics, September 2007, 10(3), 235-250.

 

“An Experimental Basis for Public Policy Initiatives” (with Charles A. Holt and William M. Shobe), in Promoting

the General Welfare:  New Perspectives on Government Performance, Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik, eds, Brookings Institution Press, 2006, 174-196.

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

“An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts,” job market paper

 

 “An Experimental Examination of the Volunteer's Dilemma” (with Jacob K. Goeree and Charles A. Holt)

 “Selective Survey of Experiments in Political Science (with Charles A. Holt)

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Award

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Economics Department, University of Virginia Teaching Resource Center (2007-2008)

 

Instructor, University of Virginia, Department of Economics

    Intermediate Microeconomics
    Principles of Macroeconomics

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, Department of Economics
    Mathematical Economics I (Ph. D. level)
    Mathematical Economics II (Ph. D. level)
    Principles of Microeconomics
    Principles of Macroeconomics

 

Spring 2007
Summer 2006


Fall 2004, Fall 2005
Spring 2005, Spring 2006
Fall 2003
Spring 2004

 

 

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Virginia, Department of Economics
    Charles A. Holt, Ph.D.

Research Assistant, College of William and Mary, Department of Economics
    Lisa R. Anderson
    Jennifer M. Mellor


Summer 2004 - Fall 2005


Fall 2001 - Spring 2003
Summer 2001

 

 

GRANTS

 

National Science Foundation, SES-0649463, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts,” 2007.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

“An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts”

Bankard Workshop in Industrial Organization and Theory, University of Virginia, October 2007.

Economic Science Association 2007 North American Meetings (Tucson, AZ), October 2007.

 

“Teaching Economic Concepts to Schoolchildren: Pit Markets”

Education Workshop for Secondary School Teachers, University of Virginia, April 2005.

 

“Selective Survey of Experiments in Political Science”

Economic Science Association 2004 North American Meetings (Tucson, AZ), November 2004.

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

University of Virginia

    John M. Olin Graduate Fellowship, School of Law

    Predoctoral Public Policy Fellowship, Bankard Fund for Political Economy

    Summer Dissertation Acceleration Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    Presidential Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    Dupont Fellowship, Economics Department
    Huneke Fellowship, Economics Department


College of William and Mary
    Senior Thesis earning High Honors, Economics Department
    Robert A. Barry Award for Excellence in Economics, Economics Department

    Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, NSF

    Phi Beta Kappa Member
    Chappell Research Fellowship, Roy R. Charles Center

 

2007-2008

2007-2008

2007

2003-2006

2004-2006

2004-2005

 

 

May 2003

May 2003

April 2003

December 2002

Summer 2001

 

 

CITIZENSHIP

 

United States