Working Papers
Experimental Auctions with Securities (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Declan Hunt) Revise and Resubmit, The Economic Journal
Competition between sellers in security-bid auctions: An experimental study (with Allan Hernández-Chanto and Elliot Hiller) Revise and Resubmit, Experimental Economics
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
Backwards Induction and the Game of Chomp (with Hai Anh Pham) — Status: Full data collected.
Ransomware Insurance (with Claudio Mezzetti and Zarina Vakhitova) — 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: Pilot data collected.
Economics Publications
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.