Profile
Rachel Croson received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1994. After thirteen years at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, she joined The University of Texas at Dallas in 2007.
Professor Croson holds a joint appointment as Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Political and Policy Sciences and as Professor of Organizations, Strategy and International Management in the School of Management.
She serves as the Director of The Negotiations Center, an interdisciplinary research center aimed at producing and promoting research on the boundaries of economics, psychology and business.
Research
Professor Croson’s research is interdisciplinary. Her work has been published in journals in economics, business, psychology, sociology and political science. In general, her work integrates psychological factors into economic settings; documenting the form and extent to which psychological concerns affect economic decisions.
Current research projects include:
Experimental Bargaining and Negotiation: Investigating how individuals negotiate, comparing email and face-to-face negotiation, examining cultural and gender differences in negotiation, documenting the level and consequences of deception in negotiation, and identifying levels of trust and cooperation in different populations and situations: Funded by the National Science Foundation
Public Goods and the Motivations for Giving: Investigating why individuals voluntarily contribute to public goods in the lab and in the field, with a focus on public radio: Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Experimental and Behavioral Operations Management: Investigating how individuals make decisions in operational settings, including supply chain settings, service operations and alliances: Funded by the National Science Foundation
Bounded Rationality: Investigating how bounded rationality leads to suboptimal decision making, especially focusing on perceptions of probability (gambler’s fallacy, hot hand).Teaching
Professor Croson has taught Negotiation to undergraduates, MBAs and executives since the beginning of her academic career. She has also taught PhD courses in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, and Decision Processes.
Professor Croson has consulted on areas related to her research, and has offered independent executive education classes in Negotiation, Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and many other topics.
Service
Professor Croson organizes and spearheads the CeMENT workshops. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, these workshops are designed to help female junior faculty achieve tenure in economics and related fields. Further information on these workshops can be found at: www.cswep.org.
Professor Croson serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including American Economic Review, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Experimental Economics, Judgment and Decision Making, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
She has edited two special issues: one on Trust and Institutions in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (with Iris Bohnet), and a second on Behavioral Issues in Operations Management in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, (with Noah Gans).
Professor Croson has served on the NSF Economics Advisory Panel (2002-2004), and on the NSF ADVANCE Advisory Panel (2005).
Contact Information
Office: Green Hall 2.514 and 2.516
Phone: (972) 883-6016
Assistant’s phone: (972) 883-6015
Fax: (972) 883-6486
Email: crosonr@utdallas.edu
- Updated: July 20, 2007
