Joshua Foster

Positions

Assistant Professor, Ivey Business School, Western University

2021

Associate Professor (without tenure), University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

2021

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

2016

Assistant Professor, Whitman College

Education

2014

Ph.D., Economics, University of Arkansas

2009

B.S., Economics, Bentley University

2005

Small town kid

Research

  • Industrial Organization
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Mechanism Design

Publications

2023 The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity

Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming.

with

  • Shannon L. Rawski
  • Emilija Djurdjevic
  • Andy Soderberg

2022 Semi-nonparametric Estimation of Secret Reserve Prices in Auctions

Economics Letters, 220, 2022, 110843.

2022 Charity Auctions as Assets: All-Pay vs. Winner-Pay Mechanisms in Mean-Variance Space

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 83, 2022, 101319.

with

  • M. Ryan Haley

2022 Sexual Harassment Bystander Training Effectiveness: Experimentally Comparing Computer-Based Practice to Virtual Reality Practice

Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 3(2:Summer), 2022.

Abbreviated version published in Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2022.

with

  • Shannon L. Rawski
  • Jeremy Bailenson

2022 How Rating Mechanisms Shape User Search, Quality Inference and Engagement in Online Platforms: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Business Research, 142, 2022, 791-807.

2021 The Relationship between In-Person Voting and COVID-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2021, 1-18.

with

  • Chad Cotti
  • Bryan Engelhardt
  • Erik Nesson
  • Paul Niekamp

2020 A Natural Field Experiment Comparing the Duluth and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment Options for Intimate Partner Violence Diversion Programs: The Winnebago County Experience

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26 (2), 2020, 384–395.

with

  • Chad Cotti
  • M. Ryan Haley
  • Shannon L. Rawski

2020 Loss Aversion and Sunk Cost Sensitivity in All-pay Auctions for Charity: Theory and Experiments

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 84, 2020, 101486.

2019 Thank You for Being a Friend: The Roles of Online Social Networks in Attracting Backers to Crowdfunded Campaigns

Information Economics and Policy, 49, 2019, 100832.

2019 Behavioral Demand Effects When Buyers Anticipate Inventory Shortages

European Journal of Operational Research, 276(1), July 2019, pp. 217-234.

with

  • Cary Deck
  • Amy Farmer

2018 Wars of Attrition with Endogenously Determined Budget Constraints

B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 18(2), July 2018.

2015 Defense Against an Opportunistic Challenger: Theory and Experiments

European Journal of Operational Research, 242 (2), April 2015, pp. 501-513.

with

  • Cary Deck
  • Hongwei Song

2014 Putting Social Preferences to Work: Can Social Preferences Predict Real Effort Provision?

Journal of Economic Psychology, 45, December 2014, pp. 128-140.

Working Papers

Under Review

2022 Auctions for Risk Averse Charities

with

  • Jeffrey Carpenter
  • Peter Hans Matthews

In Preparation

Fee-based Market Structures: An Empirical Application to English Auctions Using Nonparametric Identification

On the Information Entropy of Signalling Mechanisms: An Experiment

Riding Backer Waves: Exploiting the Non-linear Funding Dynamics in Crowdfunded Campaigns

Grants

SSHRC Insight Grant (Co-Investigator) Increasing Bystander Interventions during Sexual Harassment Incidents using Virtual Reality Methods ($352,484), 2022.

UW-Oshkosh Faculty Development Summer Grant, 15% CAS, 2017, 2019.

IFREE Small Grant Auctions for Charity and for Profit ($9,500), Principal Investigator, 2014.

Cases

New Zealand: Measuring What Matters

with

  • Adam Grisolia (Ivey HBA, 2023)

Peloton Interactive Inc.: A Push to Keep Users Pedalling

with

  • Ryan Cheng (Ivey HBA, 2022)

Bored Ape Yacht Club: No More Monkey Business

with

  • Benjamin Segal (Ivey HBA, 2023)

A Swift Pricing Decision (under review)

with

  • Kathy An (Ivey HBA, 2023)

Teaching

  • Microeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Business Statistics
  • Field Experiments
  • Computational Economics
  • Econometrics

Reviewer for

Games and Economic Behavior,     Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,     Southern Economic Journal,     Management Science,     PLOS One,     Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics,     Academy of Management Perspectives,     European Journal of Operational Research,     Finance Research Letters,     Economics and Human Biology,     Economic Inquiry,     SSHRC

Last updated March, 2024.