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- S260 Pappajohn Business Building (PBB)
- (319) 335-0856
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Positions
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Professor of Finance
Tippie College of Business
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Department Executive Officer, Finance
Henry B. Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa
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Soumyo Sarkar Professor of Finance
Henry B. Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa
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Board of Directors
University of Iowa Strategic Initiatives Fund
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Research Affiliate
Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
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Fellow
TIAA-CREF Research Institute
Education
- PhD in Economics, The University of Iowa, 1988
- BA in Economics, University of Northern Iowa, 1983
Areas of Interest
- Behavioral Finance
- Experimental Economics and Finance
- Experimental Markets and Game Theory
Professional Development
- Training/Development Program (Leadership), Build Certification, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, January 2019.
- Training/Development Program (Leadership), Save Zone Certified, University of Iowa, Iowa City, January 2019.
Selected Awards & Honors
- 2017 Tippie MBA Finance Professor of the Year, Tippie MBAA, 2017
- 2016 Tippie MBA Finance Professor of the Year, Tippie MBAA, 2016
- Best Paper Award, Experimental Economics, Accounting and Society: A Conference in Memory of John Dickhaut, Chapman University, January, 2012., 2012
- Best Paper by a Young Researcher Award, Experimental Economics, Accounting and Society: A Conference in Memory of John Dickhaut, Chapman University, January, 2012., 2012
- Undergraduate Leadership Council Student's Choice Award for Faculty Excellence Nominee, 2007
- Delta Sigma Pi, Faculty member of the Month Award, November, 2006
- Collegiate Teaching Award, University of Iowa, 1998
- State of Iowa House of Representatives Certificate of Recognition, State of Iowa House of Representatives, 1998
- Old Gold Summer Fellowship, Univeristy of Iowa, 1997
- J.L. Kellogg Research Professorship, Northwestern University, 1992
Selected Publications
- , , & (2018). Trust, Reciprocity and Rules. Economic Inquiry 53 (3) 1526-1542.
- & (In Press). Longshots, Overconfidence and Efficiency on the Iowa Electronic Market. International Journal of Forecasting.
- , & (2015). Partisan Politics and Political Prospects: Evidence from the Iowa Electronic Markets. PS: Political Science & Politics 48 (4) 573-578.
- , , , , & (2013). Mining Causal Topics in Text Data: Iterative Topic Modeling with Time Series Feedback. pp. 885-890. WSDM '13 The fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining.
- , & (2013). Experimental Economics, Accounting and Society: In Memory of John Dickhaut. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94 125-129.
- , & (2013). The “Play-Out” Effect and Preference Reversals: Evidence for Noisy Maximization. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94 160-171.
- , , & (2013). Transparency, Efficiency and the Distribution of Economic Welfare in Pass-Through Investment Trust Games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94 257-267.
- , , , , , & (2012). InCaToMi: Integrative Causal Topic Miner Between Textual and Non-textual Time Series Data. pp. 2689-2691. Proceedings of the The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
- & (2010). Can Portfolio Selection be Improved in Practice? Observations from Experimental Behavioral Finance. TIAA-CREF Trends and Issues.
- , & (2010). Memoirs of an Indifferent Trader: Estimating Forecast Distributions from Prediction Markets. Quantitative Economics 1 (1) 163.
Selected Presentations
- (2016, November) Behavioral Finance. Lecture presented at Tippie MBA Finance Careeer Academy, Iowa City.
- , , , & (2016, June) Asset Allocation: Experiment and Field Data. Oral presented at 2016 TIAA-CREF Fellows Symposium, New York, New York.
- , , & (2016, April) Offering vs. Choice in Retirement Plans: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Investment Menus with Traditional and Life-Cycle Mutual Funds. Oral presented at University of Iowa Economics Department Alumni Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.
- , , & (2015, October) Offering vs. Choice in Retirement Plans: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Investment Menus with Traditional and Life-Cycle Mutual Funds. Oral presented at 2015 Fellows Symposium: Retirement Benefits for a 21st Cenury Workforce, New York, New York.
- , , & (2015, September) Offering vs. Choice in Retirement Plans: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Investment Menus with Traditional and Life-Cycle Mutual Funds. Oral presented at Finance Department Seminar, Iowa City, Iowa.
- (2013, April) Ratings and Asset Allocation: An Experimental Analysis. Lecture presented at Finance Department Seminar Series, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
- (2012, November) Trust, Reciprocity and Rules. Oral presented at The North American Meetings of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona.
- (2012, October) The Rating Effect: Stars and Asset Allocation. Lecture presented at Iowa State University Finance Department Seminar Series, Ames, Iowa.
- (2012, September) Ratings and Asset Allocation: An Experimental Analysis. Lecture presented at Risk Management Seminar Series, State College, Pennsylvania.
- (2012, August) Trust, Reciprocity and Rules. Lecture presented at University of Iowa Finance Department Seminar Series, Iowa City, Iowa.
Selected Grants & Contracts
- Rietz, Thomas A (Co-Principal), McDonald, Robert (Co-Principal), Richardson, David (Co-Principal), Kam, Tai (Co-Principal) Heterogeneity, Financial Literacy and Asset Allocation: A Study using Experimental and Field Data. Sponsored by TIAA-CREF Institute. Funded. September 1, 2014 - June 30, 2016.
- Rietz, Thomas A (Co-Principal), Noe, Thomas H. (Co-Principal), Rebello, Michael J. (Co-Principal) Firm Reputation Formation and Redemption: Theory and Experiment. Sponsored by The Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. Funded. September 1, 2009 - August 1, 2015.
- Rietz, Thomas A (Co-Principal), McDonald, Robert L. Star Rankings and Optimal Asset Allocation: An Experimental Study. Sponsored by TIAA-CREF Research Institute. Funded. September 1, 2009 - August 1, 2012.
- Rietz, Thomas A (Co-Principal), Berg, Joyce E (Co-Principal), Gruca, Thomas S (Co-Principal), Forsythe, Robert (Co-Principal) Active Learning in Undergraduate Education Using the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM). Sponsored by National Science Foundation. Funded. January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2003.
- Rietz, Thomas A (Co-Principal), Berg, Joyce E (Co-Principal), Gruca, Thomas S (Co-Principal), Forsythe, Robert (Co-Principal) Enhancing Economic Literacy Through the Iowa Electronic Market. Sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. January 1, 1997 - January 1, 2000.
Professional Service
- Montessori School of Iowa City; Board of Trustees, Board Membership, Nonprofit, August 2017.
- Montessori School of Iowa City; Board of Trustees, Board Membership, Nonprofit, June 2011 - August 2011.
Editorial & Review Activities
- American Economic Review, Referee.
- American Journal of Political Science, Referee.
- Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom, Referee.
- Economic Letters, Referee.
- Electronic Markets, Referee.
- Experimental Economics, Referee.
- Games and Economic Behavior, Referee.
- Interfaces, Referee.
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Special Issue Guest Editor, Other.
- Journal of Politics, Referee.