Nathan Berg

Nathan Berg, Ph.D. (Berg CV)

Associate Professor of Economics

School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences (EPPS)

University of Texas-Dallas

Working Papers

Berg, N., Eckel, C. and Johnson, C. (2009), Inconsistency Pays?: Time-inconsistent subjects and EU violators earn more, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Berg, N., Biele, G. and Gigerenzer, G. (2009), Consistency versus accuracy of beliefs: Economists surveyed about PSA, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Kameda, T., Tsukasaki, T., Hastie, R., and Berg, N. (2009) Democracy under uncertainty: The `wisdom of crowds’ and the free-rider problem in group decision making, Working Paper, Hokkaido University.

Berg, N., Hoffrage, U., and Abramczuk, K. (2009), Fast Acceptance by Common Experience: FACE-recognition in Schelling’s model of neighborhood segregation, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Monti, M., Martingon, L., Gigerenzer, G., and Berg, N. (2009), Investment decisions: New descriptive models of bank customers’ behavior, Working Paper, Max Planck Institute-Berlin.

Berg, N. and Kain, J. (2009), Who switches race?: Empirics on the endogeneity of ethnicity, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Berg, N. and Kim, Jeong-Yoo (2009), Demand for moderation of desire, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Berg, N. (2008), Imitation in location choice, Working Paper, University of Texas-Dallas.

Gigerenzer, G. and Berg, N. (2007) [German language] Kommentar zum Vortrag von Klaus M. Schmidt.

Publications

Berg, N. and Hoffrage, U. (forthcoming), Compressed environments: Unbounded optimizers should sometimes ignore information, Minds and Machines.

Berg, N. and Gigerenzer, G. (forthcoming), As-if behavioral economics: Neoclassical economics in disguise?, History of Economic Ideas.

Berg, N. (forthcoming), Behavioral Economics, In Free, R. C. (Ed.) 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications.

Berg N. (forthcoming), Experiments to generate new data about school choice, Journal of School Choice.

Berg, N., Jha, N., and Murdoch, J. C. (forthcoming) Risk in Housing Markets, In Smith, S. (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier.

Berg, N., Abramczuk, K., and Hoffrage, U. (forthcoming). Fast acceptance by common experience: Augmenting Schelling’s neighborhood segregation model with FACE-recognition. In R. Hertwig, U. Hoffrage, and the ABC Research Group. Social Heuristics that Make Us Smart [working title]. Oxford University Press.

Bennis, W., Katsikopolous, K., Goldstein, D. and Dieckmann, A., and Berg, N. (forthcoming) Designing institutions to fit minds, In Todd, P.M , Gigerenzer, G. and ABC Research Group, Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berg, N. and Merrifield, J. (2009), Illusive competition in school reform: Comment on Merrifield’s “Imagined evidence and false imperatives,” Journal of School Choice 3(3), 290-306.

Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2009), Sexual orientation and self-reported lying, Review of Economics of the Household 7(1), 83-104.

Finin, T., Joshi, A., Kargupta, H., Yesha, Y., Sachs, J., Bertino, E., Ninghui Li, Clifton, C., Spafford, G., Thuraisingham, B., Kantarcioglu, M., Bensoussan, A., Berg, N., Khan, L., Jiawei Han, Cheng Xiang Zhai, Sandhu, R., Shouhuai Xu, Massaro, J., and Adamic, L. (2009) Assured information sharing life cycle, Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI '09 IEEE International Conference, pp. 307- 309.

Berg, N. and Hoffrage, U. (2008) Rational ignoring with unbounded cognitive capacity, Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(6), 792-809

Berg, N. and Faria, J. (2008), Negatively correlated author seniority and the number of acknowledged people: Name-recognition as a signal of scientific merit, Journal of Socio-Economics 27(3), 1234-1247.

Berg, N. and Murdoch, J. (2008) Access to grocery stores in Dallas, International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 1(1), 22-37.

Berg, N. (2008) Review of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, by Bowles, S., in Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(1), 444-447.

Berg, N. and Gigerenzer, G. (2007) Psychology implies paternalism?: Bounded rationality may reduce the rationale to regulate risk-taking, Social Choice and Welfare 28(2), 337-359.

Berg, N. and Maital, S. (2007) Tailoring globalization to national needs and wellbeing: One size never fits all, Global Business and Economics Review 9(2/3), 319-334.

Berg, N., Gu, A. and Lien, D. (2007) Dynamic correlation: A tool for hedging house-price risk?, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management 13(1), 17-28.

Berg, N. (2007) Behavioural economics, business decision making and applied policy analysis, Global Business and Economics Review, 9 (2/3), 123-125.

Berg, N. (2007) It shouldn’t take a road trip to shop, Dallas Morning News, November 15, p. 21A.

Berg, N. (2006) A simple Bayesian procedure for sample size determination in an audit of property value appraisals, Real Estate Economics 34(1), 133-155.

Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2006) Same-sex sexual behavior: U.S. frequency estimates from survey data with simultaneous misreporting and non-response, Applied Economics 38(7), 757-769.

Berg, N. and Gigerenzer, G. (2006) Peacemaking among inconsistent rationalities? In Engel, C. and Daston, L. (Eds.), Is There Value in Inconsistency?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 421-433.

Berg, N. (2006) Behavioral labor economics, In Altman, M., ed., Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, M.E. Sharpe, New York, pp. 457-478.

Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2005) Does society benefit from investor overconfidence in the ability of financial market experts?, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58, 95-116.

Berg, N. (2005) Decision-making environments in which unboundedly rational decision makers choose to ignore relevant information, Global Business and Economics Review 7(1): 59-73.

Berg, N. (2005) Finance, psychology, economics and the design of successful institutions. In W. Jingping (Ed.), Shanghai Forum 2005, Economic Globalization and the Choice of Asia: Finance, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, pp. 502-509.

Berg, N. (2005) Review of Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, by Schmid, A., in Journal of Socio-Economics, 34(6), 866-868.

Berg N. (2005) Psychological economics and the size of government: On anti-, anti-anti-, ... , (anti-)ⁿⁿ, In Yasin, Y. (ed.), Economic Modernization and Cultivation of Institutions (Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow), HSE Publishing House, pp. 367-375.

Berg, N. and Hoffrage, U. (2005) Environmental determinants of simple decision rules: No cognitive limitations needed, In Opwis, K. and Penner, I. (eds.) Proceedings of KogWis05: The German Cognitive Science Conference 2005, Schwabe, Basel, pp. 9-14.

Berg, N. (2005) Non-response bias, In Kempf-Leonard, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement vol. 2, pp. 865-873, London, Academic Press.

Berg, N. (2004) No-decision classification: An alternative to testing for statistical significance, Journal of Socio-Economics 33(5), 631-650.

Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2003) Tracking-error decision rules and accumulated wealth, Applied Mathematical Finance 10(2), 91-119.

Berg, N. (2003) Normative behavioral economics, Journal of Socio-Economics 32, 411-427.

Berg, N. (2003) Hedging housing risk and the new economy: Is there a connection, and should firms care?, Global Business and Economics Review 5(1), 10-36.

Berg, N. (2003) Review of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Kennedy, R., in Magill’s Literary Annual 2002: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 2002, pp. 586-589, Pasadena, CA, Salem Press.

Berg, N. (2003) Review of Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, by Kaufman, M.T., in Magill’s Literary Annual 2002: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 2002, pp. 794-798, Pasadena, CA, Salem Press.

Berg, N. (2003) Sometimes we have to choose between freedoms, Dallas Morning News, Friday, February 21, p. 23A.

Berg, N. (2003) We must discuss who gets what, Dallas Morning News, Friday, January 10, p.21A.

Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2002) Measuring the effect of sexual orientation on income: Evidence of discrimination?, Contemporary Economic Policy 20, 394-414. [Cited in Business Week, April 21, p.30, Canada’s National Post, April 28, 2003, and Atlantic Monthly, October 2003.]

Berg, N. (2002) Coping with journal-price inflation: Leading policy proposals and the quality-spectrum, Economics Bulletin 4(14), 1-8.

Berg, N. (2002) Behavioral cost-benefit economics: Toward a new normative approach to policy, In Kantarelis, D. (ed.), Global Business & Economics Review-Anthology, pp. 132-141.

Berg, N. (1998), Review of Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel, by Dawson, J.W. Jr., in Magill’s Literary Annual: Books of 1997, pp. 517-521, Pasadena, CA, Salem Press.

Funded research and awards

2009, Visiting Foreign Scholar Program, Institute of Social and Economics Research, Osaka University, Japan.

2008, AOC: Publicly-Driven Investment, Neighborhood Change, and Household Behavior, National Science Foundation, with PI Jim Murdoch, $1,000,178.

2008, A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Program for Assured Information Sharing, with PI Bhavani Thuraisingham, $1,000,000.

2008 “Value in inconsistency?: Non-Bayesian forgiveness in repeated interaction,” Visiting Foreign Scholar Program, Institute of Social and Economics Research, Osaka University, Japan.

2008, Research on the Southern Sector GAP Project, Dallas Morning News, with Tim Bray, $35,000.

2008 Visiting Foreign Scholar Program, Institute of Social and Economics Research, Osaka University, Japan.

2003 Fulbright Award: “Demographic Challenges.” Granting Agency: Fulbright Scholars Program.

2002-2003 “The Academic Performance of Immigrant and Native-Born Schoolchildren in Texas.” Granting Agency: Smith Richardson Foundation (Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program). Duration: 18 months. Total Funding: $60,000.

2002-2003 “Perceptions and Housing Prices: A Longitudinal Study of Scattered-Site Public Housing in North Dallas.” Granting Agency: National Academy of Sciences (HUD Urban Scholars Fellowship Program.) Duration: 15 months. Total Funding: $53,000.

2002 “A Proposal to Evaluate Strategies for Dealing with Missing Survey Data Using Texas School Data.” Granting Agency: Society of Self Fellows. Duration: 12 months. Total Funding: $10,000.

Referee for: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Japanese Economic Review, Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Contemporary Economic Policy, Industrial Labor Relations Review, Journal of Socio-Economics, Global Business and Economics Review, Quantitative Finance, Theory and Psychology, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Industrial Relations, Education Economics, The Williams Review, Journal of School Choice, Bulletin of Economic Research, Review of Economics of the Household, Geographical Analysis, Social Science Computer Review, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Psychology, Macmillan, Palgrave, Wiley, European Science Foundation, National Science Foundation.