Staff profile

Prior to joining Durham in 2014, Jason held appointments at University of California – San Diego, National University of Singapore, Xiamen University, and was a research scientist at the IBM TJ Watson Research Lab. He received his B.S. in Mathematical Economics from Tulane University and his PhD. in Economics from the University of Arizona.

Jason researches in the areas of experimental economics, behavioural game theory, behavioural operations management, asset markets, and auctions. International academic journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior,  and others have published his papers.

He has successfully supervised numerous PhD and Master students with quality placement in academia, industry, and government. He is enthusiastic to collaborate with scholars from around the world who share his passion to use experiments, lab and field, to study human behaviour. For those young scholars with similar interests and desiring to undertake a PhD under his supervision, please feel free to contact him directly.

Mini Biography

Jason joined Durham University as a Professor of Experimental Economics in 2014. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of California – San Diego, the National University of Singapore, and Xiamen University. He was also a technical staff member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Labs.

• Experimental Economics
• Behavioural Game Theory
• Behavioural Operations Management

• Economics & Finance Department
• Experimental Methods in Business Research

• 2017: Bilateral ESRC/FNR: Experimental assessment fo the societal impact of alogrithmic traders in asset markets(£318959.63 from ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN))
• 2017: GROUP IDENTITY AND THE IMPACT UPON MARKET COLLUSION(£8684.19 from HEFCE)

Chapter in book

• Shachat, J. & Wang, H. (2022). Are you experienced? How the time spacing of traders' market experience impacts bubble formation in experimental asset markets. In Handbook of Experimental Finance. Füllbrunn, S. & Haruvy, E. Edward Elgar. 267-280.
• Leland, J., Houser, D. & Shachat, J. (2005). Measuring trust and trustworthiness. In Trust and Entrepreneurship: A West-East Perspective. Höhmann, H.-H. & Welter, F. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 87-96.

Journal Article

• Neugebauer, Tibor Shachat, Jason & Szymczak, Wiebke (2023). A test of the Modigliani-Miller theorem, dividend policy and algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets. Journal of Banking and Finance 106814.
• Shachat, Jason & Tan, Lijia (2022). How auctioneers set reserve prices in procurement auctions. European Journal of Operational Research 304(2): 709-728.
• Walker, Matthew J., Katok, Elena & Shachat, Jason (2022). Trust and Trustworthiness in Procurement Contracts with Retainage. Management Science
• Shachat, Jason & Srinivasan, Anand (2022). Informational price cascades and non-aggregation of asymmetric information in experimental asset markets. Journal of Behavioral Finance 23(4): 388-407.
• Kuroda, Michael, Li, Jieran, Shachat, Jason, Wei, Lijia & Zhu, Bochen (2022). An experimental study of intra- and international cooperation: Chinese and American play in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game. China Economic Review 74: 101807.
• Pan, Jinrui, Shachat, Jason & Wei, Sijia (2022). Cognitive stress and learning economic order quantity inventory management: An experimental investigation. Decision Analysis 19(3): 229-254.
• Angerera, Martin, Neugebauer, Tibor & Shachat, Jason (2022). Arbitrage bots in experimental asset markets. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Guo, Y., Shachat, J., Walker, M.J. & Wei, L. (2021). Viral social media videos can raise pro-social behaviours when an epidemic arises. Journal of the Economic Science Association 7(2): 120-138.
• Shachat, J., Walker, M.J. & Wei, L. (2021). How the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic impacted pro-social behaviour and individual preferences: Experimental evidence from China. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations 190: 480-494.
• Shachat, J. Walker, M.J. & Wei, L. (2021). The Impact of an Epidemic: Experimental Evidence on Preference Stability from Wuhan. Annual Proceedings of the American Economic Association 111: 302-306.
• Gjerstad, S. & Shachat, J. (2021). Individual Rationality and Market Efficiency. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences 25(4): 395-406.
• Pan,J., Shachat,J. & Wei,S. (2020). Cognitive reflection and economic order quantity inventory management: An experimental investigation. Managerial and Decision Economics 41(6): 998-1009.
• Heinrich, T. & Shachat, J. (2020). The development of risk aversion and prudence in Chinese children and adolescents. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 61(3): 263-287.
• Smyth, Russell, Gu, Jun, Mueller, Annika, Nielson, Ingrid & Shachat, Jason (2019). Improving intergroup relations through actual and imagined contact: Field experiments with Malawian shopkeepers and Chinese migrants. Economic Development and Cultural Change 68(1): 273-303.
• Shachat, J. & Zhang, Z. (2017). The Hayek hypothesis and long run competitive equilibrium: an experimental investigation. Economic Journal 127(599): 199-228.
• Nielsen, I., Gu, J., Shachat, J., Smyth, R. & Peng, Y. (2016). An experimental study of the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes in urban China. Urban Studies 53(14): 2991-3006.
• Geng, S., Peng, Y., Shachat, J. & Zhong, H. (2015). Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, and Minimax Play. Economics Letters 128: 54-58.
• Shachat, J. & Tan, L. (2015). An Experimental Investigation of Auctions and Bargaining in Procurement. Management Science 61(5): 1036-1051.
• Shachat, J., Swarthout, J. & Wei, L. (2015). A Hidden Markov Model for the Detection of Pure and Mixed Strategy Play in Games. Econometric Theory 31(04): 729-752.
• Noussair, C. N. & Shachat, J. (2014). Experiments on Learning, Methods and Voting. Pacific Economic Review 19(3): 255-259.
• Zhang, Z., Chen, G. & Shachat, J. (2013). The Impact of Asymmetric and Public Information on Pricing Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets. Securities Market Herald 9: 54-61.
• Shachat, J. & Swarthout, J.T. (2013). Auctioning the Right to Play Ultimatum Games and the Impact on Equilibrium Selection. Games 4(4): 738-753.
• Shachat, J. & Swarthout, J.T. (2012). Learning about learning in games through experimental control of strategic interdependence. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36(3): 383-402.
• Shachat, J. & Wei, L. (2012). Procuring Commodities: First-Price Sealed-Bid or English Auctions? Marketing Science 31(2): 317-333.
• Shachat, J. & Swarthout, J.T. (2010). Procurement Auctions for Differentiated Goods. Decision Analysis 7(1): 6-22.
• Shachat, J. & Westerling, A. (2006). Information aggregation in a catastrophe futures market. Managerial and Decision Economics 27(6): 477-495.
• Shachat, J. & Swarthout, J.T. (2004). Do we detect and exploit mixed strategy play by opponents? Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 59(3): 359-373.
• Shachat, J. & Walker, M. (2004). Unobserved heterogeneity and equilibrium: an experimental study of Bayesian and adaptive learning in normal form games. Journal of Economic Theory 114(2): 280-309.
• Huang, H., Keser, C., Leland, J. & Shachat, J. (2003). Trust, the Internet, and the digital divide. IBM Systems Journal 42(3): 507-518.
• Rosenthal, R.W., Shachat, J. & Walker, M. (2003). Hide and seek in Arizona. International Journal of Game Theory 32(2): 273-293.
• Shachat, J. (2002). Mixed Strategy Play and the Minimax Hypothesis. Journal of Economic Theory 104(1): 189-226.
• Wooders, J. & Shachat, J. (2001). On the Irrelevance of Risk Attitudes in Repeated Two-Outcome Games. Games and Economic Behavior 34(2): 342-363.
• Cox, J.C., Shachat, J. & Walker, M. (2001). An Experiment to Evaluate Bayesian Learning of Nash Equilibrium Play. Games and Economic Behavior 34(1): 11-33.
• Hoffman, E., Libecap, G. & Shachat, J. (1998). An Experimental Investigation of the Incentives to Form Agricultural Marketing Pools. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 42(2-3): 287-304.