Daniel G. Stephenson
Associate Professor of Economics
Virginia Commonwealth University



Research Interests

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

Publications

Heterogeneous Vulnerability and Vaccination Behavior: Evidence from Experimental Games
Dynamic Games and Applications (2026)


Testing the simplicity of strategy-proof mechanisms
Economic Theory (2025)


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)


Playing the Field in All Pay Auctions
Experimental Economics (2021)


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)


Working Papers

The Endogenous Nature of War and Its Economic Consequences
(with Jordan Adamson)


The Reliability of Equilibrium in Conflicts over Complementary Factors

Knowledge, Interest Rates, and Asset Price Bubbles

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