John Hamman

Biography

John Hamman, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Dr. Hamman is an Associate Professor and Bernard Sliger Scholar in the Department of Economics at Florida State University and an associate researcher at the GATE-Lab (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique, Lyon/St-Etienne). He uses experimental methods to study issues relating to organizational and managerial economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. In his work he aims to integrate insights from political science and psychology into standard economic and game theoretic environments. His research has published in academic outlets such as the American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, Economic Journal, and Experimental Economics, among others.

Education

Ph.D. – Carnegie Mellon University

Awards & Honors

“U.S. Department of Agriculture NIFA Capacity Building Grant (Co-PD with Lachaud, Florida A&M). ($404,622)

Collegium Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Lyon, France

French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation Thomas Jefferson Fund Award. An economic analysis of dishonesty and ethical behavior in organizations‚ 2018 – 2020 ($20,000)

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) Small Grant (Co-PI with Eric Schmidbauer). Project Selection and Competitive Cheap Talk‚ 2017 – 2019 ($10,000).

National Science Foundation Grant (Co-PI with David Cooper). Leadership and Over-Coming Coordination Failure. 2011 – 2014 ($403,882).”

Selected Publications

“Managing Uncertainty: An Experiment on Delegation and Team Selection, 2023 (with Miguel Martinez-Carrasco), Organization Science, vol 34 (6), 2272-2295.

Political Accountability and Democratic Institutions: An Experimental Assessment, 2021 (with José Gabriel Castillo), Journal of Experimental Political Science, vol 8 (2), 128-144.

Fool Me Once: An Experiment on Credibility and Leadership, 2020 (with David Cooper and Roberto Weber), The Economic Journal, vol. 130 (631), 2105-2133.

Personality Traits and Endogenous Group Formation, 2019 (with James Ahloy), Revue Economique, vol 70 (6), 999-1020.

Market Interaction and Pro-Social Behavior: An Experimental Study, 2018 (with Sean Collins and John Lightle), Southern Economic Journal, vol. 84 (3), 692-715.

Dependency Status and Social Insurance: An Experimental Investigation, 2017 (with John Ahlquist and Bradley Jones), Political Science Research and Methods, vol. 5 (1), 31-53.

Delegated Bargaining Under Relational Incentives: An Experimental Study, 2016 (with Amy Choy, Roberto Weber, and Ron King), Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 2 (1), 22-35.

Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment, 2014 (with Mikhail Drugov and Danila Serra), Experimental Economics, 17, 1, 78-99.

An Experimental Investigation of Electoral Delegation and the Provision of Public Goods, 2011 (with Roberto Weber and Jonathan Woon), American Journal of Political Science, vol. 55 (4), 738-52.

Self-Interest Through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship, 2010 (with Roberto Weber and George Loewenstein), American Economic Review, vol. 100 (4), 1826-46.

Solving Coordination Failure with All-or-None Group Level Incentives, 2007 (with Scott Rick and Roberto Weber), Experimental Economics, vol 10 (3), 285-303.”