ANAT BRACHA
		THE EITAN BERGLAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY tel: 972-3-640-5824 fax: 972-3-640-9908  email: anatbrac(at)post.tau.ac.il
	HOME CV RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS & WORKING PAPERS TEACHING	CV PDF version EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, May 2005 M. Phil., Economics, Yale University, December 2002 M.A., Economics, Yale University, May 2001 B.A., Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Summa Cum Laude, 1997 RESEARCH INTERESTS Psychology and Economics Decision Making under Uncertainty Applied Microeconomic Theory ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2006 – Present Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Pittsburgh, spring 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Yale University, summer 2008 Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, The Media laboratory, 2005 – 2006 RESEARCH “Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially”, (with D. Ariely and S. Meier), American Economic Review, 99(1) March 2009, pp. 544-555 “Optimal Level of Agents’ Private Information: An Uninformed Principal Perspective” “Affective Decision Making: A Behavioral Theory of Choice”, (with D.J. Brown). “Seeds to Succeed? Sequential Giving to Public Projects”, (with M. Menietti and L. Vesterlund) “Public and Private Values”, work in progress (with Dan Ariely and Jean-Paul L’Huillier) “Risk, Motivation, and Uncertainty”, work in progress (with R. Sasson). “The Consequences of Affirmative Action”, work in progress.(with A. Cohen) “Labor, Pressure, and Performance”, work in progress (with C. Fershtman) “Changing the Game”, work in progress. “Empirical Investigation of Asymmetric Information”, work in progress (with A. Cohen) TEACHING Intermediate Micro B, Tel Aviv University, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Behavioral Economics, Tel Aviv University, Spring 2007, Fall 2008; Yale University, Summer 2008. Introductory Microeconomics, Yale University, Summer 2003 SERVICE Individual Decision-Making: A Behavioral Approach Conference Organizer, Tel Aviv University June 2009 Behavioral/Experimental Economics Workshop Organizer, Tel Aviv University, 2008 Theory Workshop Organizer, Tel Aviv University, 2006 – 2008 Director of Graduate Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2007 The Meaning and Value of Labor Conference Organizer, MIT, January 2005 Whitebox Advisors Graduate Students Conference in Behavioral Science Organizer, Yale University, May 2005 Reviewer for: American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, National Science Foundation, Marketing Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS Israel Science Foundation, 2009-2011 (with C. Fershtman) Israel Foundations Trustees Grant 2008-2010 The Foerder Institute for Economic Research Grant, 2007 The Pinhas Sapir Center Grant, 2006-2007 Whitebox Advisors Doctoral Fellowship, 2004-05 Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, 2003 The Georg Walter Leitner Grant for Political Economics, 2002 John Perry Miller Fund Fellowship, 2002 (declined) Yale Fellowship, Sept. 1999 – 2003 Rector’s Prize for the top student in economics (graduate level), Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel), 1998. Dean’s List of top 3 percent of students in economics (undergraduate level), Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel), 1994-1997. PRESENTATIONS Insper, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2009 SITE, Stanford University, August 2009 Individual Decision-Making: A Behavioral Approach Conference, June 2009 Princeton University, Economics, April 2009 University of Pittsburgh, Economics, March and April 2009 The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, January 2009 AEA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 2009 Ben-Gurion University, Economics, December 2008 Yale University, Neuroeconomics Seminar, July 2008 Haifa University, Economics, May 2008 The Hebrew University, Economics, April 2008 Bar-Ilan University, Economics, December 2007 Tel Aviv University, Marketing, November 2007 North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, AZ, October 2007 Simon Fraser University, Economics, Vancouver, Canada, October 2007 University of British Columbia, Economics, Vancouver, Canada, October 2007 French Economic Association on Behavioral Economics and Experiments, May 2007 UCLA, Economics, May 2007 Affect, Motivation, and Decision Making International Conference, Dead Sea, December 2006 MIT Sloan, Marketing, Spring 2006 Brown University, Economics, Fall 2005 Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2005 1^st Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference on Behavioral Approaches to Finance, Economics and Marketing, New Haven, May 2005 19^th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Madrid, August 2004 13^th European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Venice, June 2004 WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Neuroeconomics Summer School, Stanford, July 2006 The Russell Sage Summer Institute, Trento, July 2004 IN THE NEWS The Wall Street Journal, August 31^st 2007. Globes – Israel’s Business Arena, November 27^th 2008. The Economist, January 15^th 2009.