Brent Hickman

Brent Hickman

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Area of Expertise

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Business/Corporate Strategy, Econometrics, Economics, Microeconomics/ Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics

Education

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• Ph D 2010, University of Iowa
• BA 2005, Brigham Young University

Awards/Honors

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• Winner of the The Public Utility Research Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics, International Industrial Organization Conference, 2020
• Paul Geroski Award for being one of the top two papers to appear in IJIO during 2010, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011

Teaching Interests

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I teach undergraduate econometrics and at the graduate level I teach PhD courses on structural research methods and Industrial Organization

Research Interests

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Empirical methods for models of private information; auctions; nonlinear pricing; market design; industrial organization; human capital/education; black-white and gender inequality, adverse selection in labor markets

Selected Publications

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• "DISENTANGLING MOTIVATION AND STUDY PRODUCTIVITY AS DRIVERS OF ADOLESCENT HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIEMENT AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS", with Christopher Cotton, John List, Joseph Price, Sutanuka Roy
• "Stress-Testing Structural Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity: Robust Inference on Optimal Nonlinear Pricing", with Aaron Bodoh-Creed, John List, Ian Muir, Gregory Sun
• "How Efficient Are Decentralized Auction Platforms?", Review of Economic Studies, with Joern Boehnke, Aaron Bodoh-Creed, 2021
• "Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence", with Daniel Hedblom, John List
• "College Assignment as a Large Contest", Journal of Economic Theory, Issue 1, 88-126, with Aaron Bodoh-Creed, 2018
• "Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment", Journal of Labor Economics, with Christopher Cotton, Joseph Price, 2022
• "Pre-College Human Capital Investment and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions", with Aaron Bodoh-Creed
• "Shifting Competition, Affirmative Action, and Human Capital Accumulation: A Comparative Static Analysis of Investment Contests", with Christopher Cotton, Joseph Price
• "Resolving Failed Banks: Uncertainty, Multiple Bidding, and Auction Design", Review of Economic Studies, 1201-1242, with Jason Allen, Rob Clark, Eric Richert, 2024
• "On the pricing rule in electronic auctions", International Journal of Industrial Organization, Issue 5, 423-433, 2010