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Alexander Coutts is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Schulich School of Business, York University. His research areas are behavioral economics, experimental economics, and development economics. His research has been published in American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, and Experimental Economics. He has been awarded a number of grants, including 240K euros (as Co-PI) for work studying beliefs in Guinea-Bissau. He has supervised 16 master's students (defended 2016-2020), and one doctoral student (defended: 2020).
Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Alexander Coutts

Nomes de citação

  • Coutts, Alexander

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
0713-8ECF-8BB5
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9593-8103

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • acoutts@schulich.yorku.ca (Profissional)

Telefones

Telemóvel
  • 966124969 (Pessoal)

Moradas

  • Nova SBE, Rua da Holanda, n.1, Campus de Carcavelos, 2775-405, Carcavelos, Cascais, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Sociais - Economia e Gestão - Economia

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês (Idioma materno)
Português Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B2) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B2) Utilizador independente (B2)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2009/09 - 2015/05
Concluído
 PhD. in Economics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Especialização em Economics
New York University, Estados Unidos
"Essays on the Role of Beliefs in Experimental and Development Economics" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2009/09 - 2014/05
Concluído
 MPhil. Economics (Master)
Especialização em Economics
New York University, Estados Unidos
2008/09 - 2010/05
Concluído
 MA in Economics (Master)
Especialização em Economics
Queen's University Faculty of Arts and Science, Canadá
"Determinants of Crime Among American Youth, Evidence from Micro Panel Data" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2004/09 - 2008/05
Concluído
 Bachelor's in Honours Economics (Bachelor)
Especialização em Economics
The University of British Columbia, Canadá
"Corruption and competition revisited" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Percurso profissional

Docência no Ensino Superior

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2021/01/01 - Atual Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário) York University Schulich School of Business, Canadá
2015/09/01 - 2020/12/31 Professor Auxiliar (Docente Universitário) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2019 - Atual Gender and Competition
N/A 1
University of Portsmouth Portsmouth Business School, Reino Unido
Em curso
2018 - Atual Belief Systems and Health Behaviors in Guinea Bissau
02/SAICT/2017/031209
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Em curso
2017 - 2020 Performance Beliefs and Allocation of Teamwork: An Experiment
N/A
2013 - 2015 Belief Biases with Financial Stakes
98-14-06
2009/04 - 2013/03 Corruption and firms access to credit: a theoretical model of bargaining
79150
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2008/04 - 2009/03 Effects of Euro area accession on foreign direct investment: evidence from Estonia
63168
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Coutts, Alexander; Pedro C. Vicente; Alex Armand; Ines Vilela. "Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique". American Economic Review 110 11 (2020): 3431-3453. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190842.
    Publicado
  2. Coutts, Alexander. "Testing models of belief bias: An experiment". Games and Economic Behavior 113 (2019): 549-565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.001.
    10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.001
  3. Coutts, Alexander. "Good news and bad news are still news: experimental evidence on belief updating". Experimental Economics 22 2 (2018): 369-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-018-9572-5.
    10.1007/s10683-018-9572-5
Documento de trabalho
  1. Coutts, Alexander; Zahra Murad; Leonie Gerhards. 2020. "What to blame? Self-serving attribution bias with multi-dimensional uncertainty". Revise and Resubmit at Economic Journal.
  2. Coutts, Alexander. 2020. "Identifying communication spillovers in lab in the field experiments". Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics.
Tese / Dissertação
  1. Coutts, Alexander. "Essays on the Role of Beliefs in Experimental and Development Economics". Doutoramento, 2015.
  2. Coutts, Alexander. "Determinants of Crime Among American Youth, Evidence from Micro Panel Data". Mestrado, 2010.
  3. Coutts, Alexander. "Corruption and Competition Revisited". Licenciatura, The University of British Columbia School of Economics, 2008.
Atividades

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2015/09 - 2020/07 Essays on Development Economics and Gender
Orientador
 Economics (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - 2019 The Effects of Overconfidence in Job Market Signaling- An Experimental Approach
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - 2019 "Behavior Profiles and Investments"
Orientador
 Finanças (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - 2019 "Stock Returns and Google Search Volume Data – An Analysis on the Portuguese and American Market"
Orientador
 Finanças (mestrado internacional) (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - 2019 The disposition effect in stocks versus bitcoin
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2018 - 2018 "The Effect of Cross-Nationality Exposure on Competitive Tournament Entry and Overconfidence"
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2018 - 2018 "Reciprocity or Equity? Analyzing the Drivers of Punishment and Reward in a Public Good Game. Evidence from Rural Rwanda."
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2018 - 2018 "Leader´s Attitudes Towards Corruption - Empirical Evidence From Northern Mozambique"
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2018 - 2018 "Is the equity premium puzzle just a lack of foresight? The impact of Targeting on myopic loss a aversion"
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2017 - 2017 "Altruism through Experience - Framework and Experiment"
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2017 - 2017 "The Hot Hand in Professional Darts"
Orientador
 Economia (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2018 - 2018 Co-organizer of Lisbon Meeting on Economics and Political Science (2018 - 2018) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Organizer of Workshop Beliefs and Decisions in Lisbon (2016 - 2016) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2015/09 - Atual NOVAFRICA Resident Member
2015/09 - Atual Economics for Policy Faculty Affiliate
Distinções

Prémio

2009 MacCracken Graduate Fellowship
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, Estados Unidos
2009 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadá
2008 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadá
2008 Tri-Council Recipient Recognition Award
Queen's University, Canadá
2007 Joseph A Crumb Prize for Best Graduating Honors Economics Thesis
The University of British Columbia School of Economics, Canadá