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.

Oct 29, 2019

Experimenting with Online Rating Mechanisms

[manuscript] On the Relative Efficiency of Crowdsourced Rating Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence

Oct 10, 2019

Designing therapy to prevent intimate partner violence

[manuscript] Duluth versus cognitive behavioral therapy: a natural field experiment on intimate partner violence diversion programs

Oct 2, 2019

How to use your social network to promote your crowdfunding campaign

[manuscript] Thank you for being a friend: the roles of strong and weak social network ties in attracting backers to crowdfunded campaigns

Jan 9, 2019

An optimal strategy for competing in sequential wars of attrition

[manuscript] Wars of attrition with endogenously determined budget constraints