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Wisconsin School of Business

Justin Sydnor

Assistant Professor - Actuarial Science, Risk Management & Insurance

Justin Sydnor is an assistant professor in the Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business.

He joined the Wisconsin School of Business from Case Western Reserve University, where he was an assistant professor of economics with the Weatherhead School of Management.

His research interests are in psychology and economics, applied microeconomics, (behavioral) industrial organization, insurance markets, and risk and decision making.

Sydnor earned his B.A. in economics and German from UW-Madison and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Selected Accepted Journal Articles

Lacetera, N., Pope, D., & Sydnor, J. (2011). Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market. American Economic Review

Selected Published Journal Articles

Pope, D., & Sydnor, J. (2011). Implementing Anti-discrimination Policies in Statistical Profiling Models. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (3), 206-231.
Garbarino, E., Slonim, R., & Sydnor, J. (2011). Digit Ratios (2D:4D) Predict Risk Taking for Men and Women. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (42), 1-26.
Pope, D., & Sydnor, J. (2011). What's in a Picture? Evidence of Discrimination from Prosper.com. Journal of Human Resources (46), 53-92.
Sydnor, J. (2010). (Over)Insuring Modest Risks. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2), 177-199.
Wharton, D., & Sydnor, J. (2010). Geographic Variation in the Gender Differences in Test Scores. Journal of Economics Perspectives (24), 95-108.

Submitted Working Papers

Lacetera, N., & Sydnor, J. (2011). Is High-quality Production Location Specific? Evidence from the Automobile Industry.
Royer, H., Stehr, M., & Sydnor, J. Using Incentives and Commitments to Overcome Self-Control Problems: Evidence from a Workplace Field Experiment.

Undergraduate Courses

Property Risk Management
Course DescriptionComprehensive analysis of loss control and transfer techniques (including insurance), risk management concepts, loss adjustment and underwriting problems, and profitability/regulatory issues concerning the insurance industry. Current topics: large-scale c
(RMI 610 Section 1), Fall 2011. Download Syllabus

Property Risk Management
Course DescriptionComprehensive analysis of loss control and transfer techniques (including insurance), risk management concepts, loss adjustment and underwriting problems, and profitability/regulatory issues concerning the insurance industry. Current topics: large-scale c
(RMI 610 Section 1), Spring 2011.



Graduate Courses

Principles of Risk Management
Course DescriptionBackground for advanced work in insurance. Nature of risk, principal techniques of risk management, and the bases for decision making in management of business and personal risks.
(RMI 700 Section 1), Fall 2011. Download Syllabus

Seminar in Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance
Course DescriptionDoctoral seminar in actuarial science, risk management and insurance with emphasis on developing an appreciation of existing literature and appropriate skills to conduct own scholarly work in the field.
(RMI 920), Spring 2011.



Presentations

Cornell Behavioral Economics Seminar
Incentives and Commitments for Exercise

American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting
Advantageous or Adverse Selection in Emerging Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a Micro Health Insurance Program in Pakistan

NBER Summer Institute Health Economics Meeting
Incentives and Commitments for Exercise

Management and Microeconomics Seminar
(Over)Insuring Modest Risk

Workshop on Natural Experiments and Controlled Field Studies
Incentives and Commitments for Exercise

Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting
Incentives and Commitments for Exercise

American Economic Association Annual Meeting
Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise

American Economic Association Annual Meeting
Understanding the Choices of Check-Cashing Customers

Department of Social and Decision Sciences Seminar
Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise

NBER Summer Institute, Labor Studies Session
Heurisitic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

Conference on Biases in Markets
Heurisitic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting
Heurisitic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

ASRMI Department Seminar
(Over)Insuring Modest Risks

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Justin Sydnor

 
Assistant Professor | Actuarial Science, Risk Management & Insurance
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