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Personal profile
Research interests
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Biography
Maroš Servátka is a Professor of Economics at the Macquarie Business School and the Founding Director of the MGSM Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory. He served as the Economics Discipline Leader at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in 2015-2018. Since 2023 he has been serving as the Deputy Director of the MBA Program.
Maroš received his MA in Quantitative Methods from the Warsaw School of Economics and his PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona. He previously held a postdoctoral position at the University of Mannheim and an Associate Professor position at University of Canterbury where he was also the Director of the New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory. Maroš is the Founder and a former President of Slovak Economic Association. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and on the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association. Maroš is the recipient of the 2019 Ronald Coase Institute Outstanding Achievement Award and 2021 Macquarie Excellence in Research Award. He has been awarded national and international competitive grants and his research has been published in leading economics and management journals.
Maroš has experience consulting to industry, government & non-profit organizations on behavioral approaches and solutions. He has done work in the areas of charitable giving helping non-profit organizations to raise funds, provided practical recommendations to businesses related to advertising, customer service, or project planning, advised government agencies on issues related to effective budget execution, studied matching algorithms used by stock exchanges, and explored governance structures of firms and behavior of employees to provide managerial recommendations. He teaches his MBA students to apply experimentation in their companies to learn what works but also what does not.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Windfall Gains and Savings Decisions - Daniel Campbel 46674063
Kent, D., Servátka, M. & Campbell, D.
1/10/21 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Natural-Resource Windfalls and Demands for Government Accountability: Evidence from the Lab
James, A., Murphy, J. & Servátka, M.
1/10/19 → 30/11/20
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Optimistic framing increases responsible investment of investment professionals
Daugaard, D., Kent, D., Servátka, M. & Zhang, L., Jan 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, p. 1-9 9 p., 583.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hidden inefficiency: Strategic inflation of project schedules
Lorko, M., Servátka, M. & Zhang, L., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 206, p. 313-326 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Honesty in the city
Dufwenberg, M., Feldman, P., Servátka, M., Tarrasó, J. & Vadovič, R., May 2023, In: Games and Economic Behavior. 139, p. 15-25 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cut yourself and others some slack: we need more time to experiment and fail at work
Servátka, M., 26 Apr 2022, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
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Fairness concerns and job assignment to positions with different surplus
Danková, K., Morita, H., Servátka, M. & Zhang, L., Apr 2022, In: Southern Economic Journal. 88, 4, p. 1490-1516 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)39 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Excellence in Research Award: Five Future-shaping Research Priorities – Prosperous Economies
Servátka, Maroš (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Honorary award
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Ronald Coase Institute Outstanding Achievement Award
Servátka, Maroš (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Honorary award