Daniel G. Stephenson

Assistant Professor of Economics

Virginia Commonwealth University

stephensod@vcu.edu



Research Interests

experimental economics, mechanism design, learning, evolutionary models, contests

Publications

Multi-battle Contests Over Complementary Battlefields
Review of Economic Design (2024)


Assignment Feedback in School Choice Mechanisms
Experimental Economics (2022)


Bargains, Price Signaling, and Efficiency in Markets with Asymmetric Information
Games and Economic Behavior (2021) - with Mark Schneider


Playing the Field in All Pay Auctions
Experimental Economics (2021) - with Alexander Brown


Coordination and Evolutionary Dynamics: When are Evolutionary Models Reliable?
Games and Economic Behavior (2019)


Continuous-Time Experiments
in The Handbook of Experimental Game Theory (2020) - with Alexander Brown


Working Papers

Testing the simplicity of strategy-proof mechanisms
(With Alexander Brown and Rodrigo Velez)


Convergence Rates in Resource Allocation Games

Myopic Management and Economic Instability

Knowledge, Interest Rates, and Asset Price Bubbles

Multi-Battle Contests over Complementary Battlefields

Teaching

ECON 338, Game Theory, Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy

SCMA 524, Statistical Fundamentals, Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy

Econ 459, Games and Economic Behavior, Texas A&M University

Econ 202, Principles of Economics, Texas A&M University