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	Anthony Kwasnica
	Associate Professor of Business Economics,  Department: Insurance and Real Estate, Laboratory for Economic Management and Auctions Office: 332 Business Building Phone: 814-863-0542 Fax: 814-865-6284 E-mail: kwasnica@psu.edu Member of Faculty Since: 1999

Personal Homepage:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/amk17

Introduction

Anthony M. Kwasnica is Associate Professor of Business Economics. He studies the role of private information in microeconomic systems. He conducts both theoretical and experimental (laboratory) research on how individuals and institutions respond to these situations. His research has lead to insights on the ability of competitive markets to aggregate information and the phenomenon of "lock-in" to inferior product innovations. Dr. Kwasnica is also actively involved in research on the design and implementation of complex auctions. He has conducted experiments that have been used by the FCC to consider new designs for the broadband spectrum auctions. Likewise, Dr. Kwasnica has investigated the susceptibility of various auction designs to collusion.  In addition to teaching microeconomics and macroeconomics in the MBA program, Dr. Kwasnica has taught undergraduate courses in linear programming and decision analysis.

Current Research

Dr. Kwasnica is currently conducting research on the ability of market is aggregate disparate information. He is studying the application of these markets to weather related events. He is also studying the role of timing in auctions and the design of multi-attribute auctions.

Expertise

Microeconomic Theory
Game Theory
Experimental Economics

Publication List

Anthony M. Kwasnica, Katerina Sherstyuk, "Collusion and equilibrium selection in auctions",  The Economic Journal, Vol. 117, 120-145.

Anthony M. Kwasnica, John Ledyard, David Porter, Christine DeMartini, "A New and Improved Design for Multiobject Iterative Auctions",  Management Science, Vol. 51, Number 3, 419-434.

Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, Terry Harrison, Anthony M. Kwasnica, Doug Thomas, "Better, Faster, Cheaper: An experimental analysis of a multi-attribute reverse auction mechanism with restricted information feedback",  Management Science, Vol. 51, Number 12, 1753-1762.

Education

PhD, Social Science, California Insitute of Technology ,   
MS, Social Science, California Institute of Technology ,   
BA, Economics, University of Arizona ,   

Courses

BA 427, Risk and Decisions
BA 597K, Business, Government, and International Economics
BA 597D, Advanced Microeconomic Analysis