Publications
Bolton, Axel Ockenfels and Ulrich W. Thonemann, Managers and students as newsvendors, Management Science, forthcoming. forthcoming - Publication
Bolton, Ben Greiner and Axel Ockenfels, Engineering Trust: Reciprocity in the production of reputation information, Management Science, forthcoming. forthcoming - Publication
Bolton and Axel Ockenfels, Behavioral economic engineering, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33, 665-676. 2012 - Publication
Bolton and Jeannette E, Brosig-Koch, How do coalitions get built? Evidence from an extensive form coalition game with and without communication, International Journal of Game Theory, 2012, 41, 623-649. 2012 - Publication
Park, Sungsoon, Bolton, Ling Rothrock and Jeannette Brosig, Towards an
Interdisciplinary perspective of training intervention for negotiations: Developing
strategic negotiation support contents, Decision Support Systems, 2010, 49. 213-221. 2010 - Publication
Bolton, Axel Ockenfels and Felix Ebeling, Information value and externalities in
reputation building, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010, 29, 23-
33. 2010 - Publication
Bolton, Testing models and internalizing context: A comment on Vernon Smith’s
‘Theory and experiment: What are the questions?’ Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, 2010, 73, 16-20. 2010 - Publication
Bolton and Axel Ockenfels, Betrayal aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman,
Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States: Comment, American Economic Review,
2010, 100, 628-633. 2010 - Publication
Bolton, and Axel Ockenfels, The limits of trust, in eTrust, K. Cook, C. Snijders, V.
Buskens, eds., Russell Sage: New York, 2009, 15-36. 2009 - Publication
Bolton and Axel Ockenfels, Testing and modeling fairness motives, Rationality,
Markets and Morals, 2009, 0, 199-206. 2009 - Publication
Appointments
Co-Director
University of Texas at Dallas [2012–Present]
Chair Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2012–Present]
Jindal School of Management
Visiting Professor
University of Cologne [2007–2018]
Visiting Professor
Harvard University [2001–2002]
Visiting Fellow
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Germany [2000–2018]
Visiting Scholar
Chinese University of Hong Kong [1999–2018]
Visiting Scholar
California Institute of Technology [1998–2018]
Visiting Scholar
University of Bonn [1995–2018]
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Econmic Analysis (IAE), Barcelona [1995–2018]
Schwartz Professor
Penn State University [1990–2012]
News Articles

When Dr. Gary Bolton started college, inflation was at its highest point in decades. U.S. manufacturing was on the decline. And an oil shortage forced rising gas prices and long lines at the pump. “As a kid growing up in the ‘70s, I would read the newspaper and wonder why the economy was so messed up,” he said. Bolton’s interest in the economic conditions as a youth inspired an academic career that has been distinguished by prestigious academic appointments, multiple National Science Foundation grants, dozens of articles in top economic journals and speaking engagements around the world. Last fall, Bolton, a professor of managerial economics, was named O.P. Jindal Chair and co-director of the Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. He runs the center with Dr. Elena Katok, his wife, an Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management.
Individuals make more conservative choices when the decisions they make affect other people, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Dr. Gary Bolton, a professor of
managerial economicsand the O.P. Jindal Chair in the
Naveen Jindal School of Management, is the lead author of the study, which was recently published in the
European Economic Review. Bolton said he and his co-authors wanted to explore the effects social preferences have in risk-taking.
People are usually surprised that as many as 70 percent of participants on Internet trading sites provide feedback about their experiences, Dr. Gary Bolton said in his keynote address during the
26th Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE).
“Most people seem to think it’s like 10 percent, something like that,” he said. “A lot of feedback is offered through these systems.”
WISE, hosted recently by the
Naveen Jindal School of Management, focused on the economic consequences of information technology advances and innovation.