URL: http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/tkornie2

Education

• Ph.D., Economics (April 2001), University of Pittsburgh, USA
• M.A., Economics (April 1999), University of Pittsburgh, USA
• M.S., Applied Mathematics and Physics (June 1990), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ("Phystech"), Russia

Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory
• Applied Game Theory
• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Economics and Psychology of Relative Comparisons

Academic Experience

• Senior Lecturer, Economics, University of Edinburgh, U.K. (August 2011 - present)
• Lecturer, Economics, University of Edinburgh, U.K. (August 2007 - July 2011)
• Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Stirling, U.K. (August 2003 - July 2007)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada (August 2001-July 2003)
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh, UK (Autumn 2002)
• Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA (1999-2001)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA (1994-1997)
• Research Assistant, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (1988-1990)
• Research Assistant, Scientific Research Vessel "Academic Ioffe", Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (Spring-Summer 1989)

Non-Academic Employment

• Assistant to Survey Manager, CARE, Moscow, Russia (1992-1993)
• Legislative Assistant, Russian Parliament, Moscow, Russia (1990-1992)

Awards

• The Thomson Prize for Best Paper (co-author) (2006)

Grants

• Faculty of Management Research and Teaching Fund (2 grants), University of Stirling (2004)
• University of Manitoba/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Research Grant (2002)

Publications

• "Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status", with Ed Hopkins, American Economic Review, September 2004, 94 (4), pp. 1085-1107.
• "Inequality and Growth in the Presence of Competition for Status”, with Ed Hopkins, Economics Letters, 2006, 93, pp. 291–296.
• "Cross and Double Cross: Comparative Statics in First Price and All Pay Auctions", with Ed Hopkins, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2007, Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 19.
• "The Optimal Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits: A Relative Performance Approach", with Ian Mackenzie and Nick Hanley, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2008, 39, pp. 265–282.
• "Using contests to allocate pollution rights" (2009), with Ian Mackenzie and Nick Hanley, Energy Policy, 37, pp. 2798–2806.
• "Status, Affluence, and Inequality: Rank-Based Comparisons in Games of Status" (2009), with Ed Hopkins, Games and Economic Behavior, 67 (2), pp. 552-568.
• "Does Competition Affect Giving?" (2010), with John Duffy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 74 (1-2), pp. 82-103.
• "Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments Versus the Inequality of Rewards" (2010), with Ed Hopkins, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2 (3), pp. 106-37.

Working Papers/Work in Progress

• "A Cognitive Basis for Cardinal Utility" (2011)
• "Local Status and Prospect Theory" (2000), with Rick Harbaugh, Claremont Economics Working Paper 2000-38, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University.

Conference Presentations

• International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Barcelona, Spain (2011)
• Conference on "The Relativity of Value: from Science to Policy", London, UK (2010)
• CRETA-IAS Workshop on "Competition and Cooperation", Warwick, UK (2010)
• Public Economic Theory Workshop on "Public Economics: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches", Lyon, France (2009)
• Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, USA (2008)
• Allied Social Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, USA (2008)
• Economic Science Association European Meeting, Nottingham, UK (2006)
• International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, USA (2006)
• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Minneapolis, USA (2006)
• International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Valencia, Spain (2005)
• Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Marseille, France (2005)
• Meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, Perth, UK (2005)
• Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, Philadelphia, USA (2005)
• Conference on "Economic Growth and Distribution", Lucca, Italy (2004)
• Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Rhodes, Greece (2003)
• International Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Pittsburgh, USA (2003)
• Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, Canada (2003)
• International Conference on "Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics", Milan, Italy (2003)
• International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, USA (2002)

Invited Seminar Presentations

• University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (2011)
• SIRE Young Researchers Forum, Edinburgh, UK (2010)
• GREQAM, Marseille, France (2008, 2009)
• Economics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (2008)
• Department of Economics, University of Glasgow, UK (2007)
• Department of Economics, Heriot-Watt University, UK (2007)
• Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews, UK (2006)
• Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK (2006)
• Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA (2006)
• New Economic School, Moscow, Russia (2005)
• Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK (2005)
• Department of Economics, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK (2005)
• Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh, U.K. (2002, 2005)
• Department of Economics, Queen Mary University of London, UK (2004)
• Department of Mathematics, University of Stirling, U.K. (2004)
• Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Canada (2003)
• Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Canada (2003)
• Department of Economics, University of Stirling, U.K. (2002)
• Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada (2001)

Conference/Workshop Organizer

• AEA session on "The Foundations of Decision Making: Recent Developments", Chicago, USA (2012)
• Mini-workshop on Experimental Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Stirling, UK (2005)
• Mini-workshop on Environmental Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Stirling, UK (2005)
• Session on Experimental Economics, Meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, Perth, UK (2005)

Refereeing

• Academic Journals
  • American Economic Review
  • Bulletin of Economic Research
  • Economica
  • Economic Journal
  • Economic Theory
  • Experimental Economics
  • Games and Economic Behavior
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  • Journal of Economic Surveys
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
  • Journal of Macroeconomics
  • Oxford Economic Papers
  • Review of Economic Studies
  • Scandinavian Journal of Economics
  • Scottish Journal of Political Economy
  • Southern Economic Journal
• Other Refereeing
  • Israel Science Foundation
  • National Science Foundation
  • Pearson Education

PhD Student Advising/Examining

• PhD Student Advising
  • Ian Mackenzie (second supervisor, University of Stirling, graduated 2007)
  • Xiao Qiao (second supervisor, University of Edinburgh, graduated 2008)
  • Sean Brocklebank (second supervisor, University of Edinburgh)
  • Andreas Anthrup (second supervisor, University of Edinburgh)
  • Man Si (second supervisor, University of Edinburgh)
  • Athanasia Arnokourou (first supervisor, University of Edinburgh)
• Internal PhD Examining
  • Zhewei Wang (University of Edinburgh, graduated 2010)

Teaching

• Graduate (Masters/Ph.D.):
  • Advanced Topics in Microeconomics: Auctions, Contests, and Tournaments (Scottish Graduate Program in Economics, UK)
  • Advanced Microeconomic Theory (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Advanced Undergraduate/Honours/Masters:
  • Topics in Economic Analysis 1: Economics of Information (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    • Nominated for Best Teaching Award (2009, 2010)
  • Advanced Microeconomics (University of Stirling, UK)
  • Financial Economics (University of Stirling, UK)
  • Industrial Economics (University of Stirling, UK)
  • Topics in Microeconomics (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Undergraduate:
  • Economics 1A (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (University of Stirling, UK)
  • Principles of Economics (University of Manitoba, Canada)
  • Introduction to Macroeconomics (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Community Outreach

• Krasnoyarsk Summer School for talented high-school students (KLSh), Krasnoyarsk, Russia
  • Lecturer in Economics, "Economic Principles using Economic Experiments" (2010)
  • Tutor in Mathematics (1988, 1989, 1990)

Consulting

• Standard Life (2011)

Administrative Duties

• Junior Recruitmentment Coordinator (2010-present)
• Knowledge Exchange Director (2009-2010)
• Interdisciplinary Liaison Officer (2008-2009)
• Director of Studies (2007-present)