Maroš Servátka

Maroš Servátka is a Professor of Economics at the Macquarie Business School and the Founding Director of the MGSM Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory. He served as the Economics Discipline Leader at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in 2015-2018.

Maroš received his MA in Quantitative Methods from the Warsaw School of Economics and his PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona. He previously held a postdoctoral position at the University of Mannheim and an Associate Professor position at University of Canterbury where he was also the Director of the New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory. Maroš is the Founder and a former President of Slovak Economic Association. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and on the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association. Maroš is the recipient of the 2019 Ronald Coase Institute Outstanding Achievement Award and 2021 Macquarie Excellence in Research Award. He has been awarded national and international competitive grants and his research has been published in leading economics and management journals.

Maroš has experience consulting to industry, government & non-profit organizations on behavioral approaches and solutions. He has done work in the areas of charitable giving helping non-profit organizations to raise funds, provided practical recommendations to businesses related to advertising, customer service, or project planning, advised government agencies on issues related to effective budget execution, studied matching algorithms used by stock exchanges, and explored governance structures of firms and behavior of employees to provide managerial recommendations. He teaches his MBA students to apply experimentation in their companies to learn what works but also what does not.

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Economics, Macquarie Graduate School of Management (now Macquarie Business School), February 2015 – present

Founding Director, MGSM Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory, February 2015 – present

Experimental and Behavioral Finance Theme Leader, Center for Applied Finance Research, Macquarie Business School, October 2020 – present

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Founder, Fellow and President (2012-14), Past President and Executive Committee Member (2014 –16), Presidents Circle Member (2016 – present), Slovak Economic Association

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2013 – present

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona, August 2006. Dissertation Title: Experiments on Fairness and Reputation

M.A., Economics, University of Arizona, December 2002

Ing., Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business; specialization Operation Research and Econometrics, University of Economics, Bratislava, October 2001

Mgr., Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Warsaw School of Economics, June 2000

PAST AND VISITING POSITIONS

Economics Discipline Leader, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, February 2015 – March 2018

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury, Jan. 2013 – July 2015 (Senior Lecturer above the Bar 01/2011–12/2012; Senior Lecturer 01/2009–12/2010; Lecturer 01/2007–12/2008)

Founding Director, New Zealand Experimental Economics Laboratory, June 2012 – July 2015 (Founding Deputy Director, July 2011 – May 2012)

Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, University of Economics, Bratislava, October 2009 – September 2014, September 2016 – present

Visiting Research Professor, Department of Economics, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 2018 – July 2019

Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney Business School and Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, May 2013

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2011

Visiting Assistant Professor, George J. Stigler Center, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Winter 2008

Visiting Scholar, George J. Stigler Center, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, April 2007

Postdoc, SonderForschungsBereich 504, University of Mannheim, August 2006 – December 2006

HONORS AND AWARDS

Excellence in Research Award: Five Future-shaping Research Priorities – Prosperous Economies, Macquarie University, 2021

Ronald Coase Institute Outstanding Achievement Award, 2018 (awarded by the Board of Directors including L. Benham, P. Keefer, G. Libecap, C. Ménard, R. Myerson, S. Peltzman, M. Shirley, C. Xu)

Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Early Career Research Excellence Prize, 2011

Early Career Research Award, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, 2010

Erskine Grant, University of Canterbury, 2008, 2010, 2013

Best Honors Course Award (Behavioral Economics), Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, 2007

Top 10 Students of Slovakia Award for academic year 2004/2005, Chamber of Slovak Youth under the patronage of the President of Slovak Republic

Don Wells Teaching Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2005

William I. Green PR Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2003, 2004

Second Year Paper Conference 2nd Prize Winner, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2003

Higher School of Business and International Finance (Warsaw, Poland) Doctoral Scholarship, 2001-2003

George W. Coleman Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, 2002-2004

Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2001-2005

Graduate Registration Scholarship, University of Arizona, 2001-2002, 2005

Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2001

Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic Doctoral Scholarship 2000-2001, Warsaw School of Economics

Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic Master’s Scholarship 1998-2000, Warsaw School of Economics