Working Papers
Experimental Auctions with Securities (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Declan Hunt) Revise and Resubmit, The Economic Journal
Finite Foresight in Chomp (with Hai Anh Pham) Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Ransomware Insurance (with Claudio Mezzetti and Zarina Vakhitova)
The Missing “Loser’s Curse”: Experimental Evidence on Belief-Based Models in Common-Value Auctions (with Antonio Rosato)
Multi-Unit Search: An Experimental Approach (with Tono Carrasco and Allan Hernández-Chanto)
Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism (with Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader)
Biased Contest Judges (with Gregory Kubitz)
Delegation with Continuation Values
Selected Work in Progress
Experimental Fixed-Equity Auctions: The Common Value Case (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Diego Carrasco Novoa) — Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration
Policies for Cybersecurity: an Experimental Approach (with Claudio Mezzetti and Zarina Vakhitova) — Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration
Security Design under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the Lab (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Jingjing Zhang) — Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration
Optimal Scoring Auctions for Procurement (with Diego Carrasco Novoa, Allan Hernández-Chanto, and Ernesto Rivera Mora) — Status: Collecting data. Pre-Registration
Economics Publications
Breig, Zachary, Allan Hernández-Chanto, and Elliot Hiller. “Competition between sellers in security-bid auctions: An experimental study.” Experimental Economics, forthcoming.
Breig, Zachary, and Paul Feldman. “Revealed preference tests for linear probability-prize tradeoffs.” Theory and Decision (2025): 1-23.
Breig, Zachary, and Paul Feldman. “Revealing risky mistakes through revisions.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 68, no. 3 (2024): 227-254.
Breig, Zachary. “Repeated contracting without commitment.” Journal of Economic Theory 204 (2022): 105514.
Breig, Zachary, and Mitch Downey. “Agency breadth and political influence.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 188 (2021): 253-268.
Breig, Zachary. “Prediction and Model Selection in Experiments.” Economic Record 96, no. 313 (2020): 153-176.
Breig, Zachary. “Endogenous and exogenous commitment.” Economics Letters 183 (2019): 108577.
Other Publications
Kenny, Danelle, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Zachary Breig, Lana Friesen, and Tracy Comans. “Decisions, Decisions: Observations of Resource Allocation Under Consumer-Directed Care.” Healthcare 13, no. 5 (2025): 516.
Kenny, Danelle, Kim-Huong Nguyen, Lana Friesen, Zachary Breig, and Tracy Comans. “Heuristics, Biases, and Decisions in Resource Allocation for Home Care Packages under Consumer Directed Care: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis.” Health & Social Care in the Community 31, no. 1 (2023): 4157055.