Research

Common-Value Fixed-Equity Auctions under Induced Risk Aversion (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Diego Carrasco Novoa) Pre-registration · PAP

Experimental Auctions with Securities (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Declan Hunt) Accepted, The Economic Journal Pre-registration · PAP

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) Pre-registration · PAP

The Missing “Loser’s Curse”: Experimental Evidence on Belief-Based Models in Common-Value Auctions (with Antonio Rosato) Pre-registration · PAP

Multi-Unit Search: An Experimental Approach (with Tono Carrasco and Allan Hernández-Chanto) Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pre-registration · PAP

Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism (with Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader) Revise and Resubmit, Experimental Economics Experiment 2 Pre-registration · PAP

Biased Contest Judges (with Gregory Kubitz)

Delegation with Continuation Values

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: Full data collected. Part 1 Pre-Registration and Part 2

Quota Rules and Holdout (with Metin Uyanik and Duygu Yengin) — Status: Full data collected. Pre-Registration

Breig, Zachary, Allan Hernández-Chanto, and Elliot Hiller. “Competition between sellers in security-bid auctions: An experimental study.” Experimental Economics 28, no. 4 (2025): 910-935.

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. Pre-registration · PAP

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.

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.