Joshua Foster
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ivey Business School

I ask questions within the intersection of experimental economics, behavioural economics, and mechanism design. I'm currently obsessed with pro-social preferences all-pay contests crowdfunding mechanisms auctions and natural language models.

Dec 11, 2021

Learning seller valuations in auctions

[manuscript] Non-parametric Estimation of Secret Reserve Prices in Auctions

Aug 1, 2020

Voting during a pandemic

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

Jan 10, 2020

Fundraising like a financier

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

Nov 14, 2019

A study on the relationship of behavioral biases and bidding behavior in all-pay auctions for charity

[manuscript] Loss aversion and sunk cost sensitivity in all-pay auctions for charity: theory and experiments