Robert Slonim
Professor
R.Slonim@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room 348
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 9187
Fax: +61 2 9351 4341
Professor Slonim is coming from the Weatherhead School of Management (CWRU) Cleveland Ohio, where he held the position of Associate Professor. He holds a PhD from Duke University and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley. Professor Slonim is best recognised as a pioneer in the area of experimental economics and has written extensively on learning, trust and the economics of education. Professor Slonim has been very innovative in his use of experimental methods that have both theoretical importance and have also represented important findings for matters of public policy. He is currently working with the Red Cross to better understand blood donation motivation and behaviour.
Professor Slonim has organised two CWRU conferences in Behavioural and Experimental Economics and has presented around the world in excess of fifty times on topics such as game theory, designing incentives, trust, learning, and the economics of education. Professor Slonim has been a panellist for the National Science Foundation and has been an ad hoc Reviewer for many well respected journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy.