BENJAMIN J GILLEN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
ROBERT DAY SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Claremont McKenna College Phone: 909-607-9948
500 E. Ninth Street Fax: 909-607-6955
Claremont, CA 91711 E-mail: bgillen@cmc.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2018-present Claremont McKenna College, Robert Day School of Economics and
Finance, Assistant Professor
2010-2018 Caltech, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
2005 – 2010 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA
Ph.D. in Economics
1995 – 1999 Yale University New Haven, CT
B.A. in Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Experimenting with Measurement Error: Evidence from the Caltech Cohort Survey, with Erik
Snowberg and Leeat Yariv. Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming.
Two Information Aggregation Mechanisms for Predicting the Opening Weekend Box Office
Revenues of Films: Boxoffice Prophecy and Guess of Guesses, with David Court, Jordie
McKenzie, and Charles R. Plott. Economic Theory, January 2018, 65(1), pp. 25 – 54.
A Parimutuel-like Mechanism for Information Aggregation: A Field Test Inside Intel, with Charles
R. Plott and Matthew Shum. Journal of Political Economy, August 2017, 125(4), pp. 1075 - 1099.
A Note on Endogenous Norms in ‘A Theory of Conformity’. Economics Letters, April 2015, 129, pp.
57 - 61
Demand Estimation with High-Dimensional Product Characteristics, with Hyungsik Roger Moon
and Matthew Shum. Advances in Econometrics, vol. 34: Bayesian Model Comparison, 2014, pp201-223.
Bayesian Minimization of Stein Loss in Covariance Matrix Estimation. Journal of Empirical Finance,
December 2014, pp. 402-420.
The Cross-section of Conditional Mutual Fund Performance in European Stock Markets, with
Ayelen Banegas, Allan Timmermann, and Russ Wermers. Journal of Financial Economics, June 2013,
108(3), pp. 699 - 726
A Taxonomy of Utility Functions, with Harry Markowitz in J.R. Aronson, H.L. Parmet, & R.J.
Thornton (Ed) “Variations in Economic Analysis: Essays in Honor of Eli Schwartz,” Springer 2009
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UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
Divergence, Closed Cycles and Convergence in Scarf Environments: Experiments in the Dynamics
of General Equilibrium Systems
with Masayoshi Hirota, Ming Hsu, Charles R. Plott, and Brian W. Rogers
The Victoria Gaming Auction: Large Constrained Auctions from the Testbed to the Field
with Tim Cason and Charles R. Plott
BLP-Lasso for Aggregate Discrete-Choice Models Applied to Elections with Rich Demographic
Covariates (USC-INET Research Paper No. 15-27)
with Sergio Montero, Roger Moon, and Matthew Shum
Subset Portfolios for Asset Allocation (Caltech Social Science Working Paper 1421)
Identification and Estimation of Level-k Auctions
The Power of Revealed Preference Tests: Ex-Post Evaluation of Experimental Design
with James Andreoni and William T. Harbaugh
WORK IN PROGRESS
Overbidding and Experience in USFS Timber Auctions (with Tatiana Mayskaya)
Experiments on Social Learning in Networks (with Marina Agranov and Dotan Persitz)
Measurement Error Methods for Behavioral Type Classification (with Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv)
TEACHING
Graduate Econometrics, Experimetrics, Time Series Analysis (Caltech)
Undergraduate Econometrics (CMC), Investments (Caltech)
Dissertation Committees (Caltech): Yutaka Kayaba (2012), Thomas Ruchti (2013), Stephen Wu
(Geophysics, 2014), Geoffrey Fisher (2015), Tatiana Mayskaya (2017), Li Song (2017)
REFERREEING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Refereeing: American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Economics
Journal, Econometrica, Empirical Economics, Experimental Economics, Finance Research Letters,
Games and Economic Behavior, Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, Journal of Econometric Methods, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of
Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of
Political Economy, Management Science, Managerial Finance, Political Analysis, Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, Quantitative Economics, Review of Financial Studies; Israeli Science
Foundation, National Science Foundation
Assistant to Co-Editor: Vincent Crawford, American Economic Review (2009-2010)
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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2019 Drexel University*
2018 Microsoft Research; Advances in Field Experiments 2018 (Boston University)
2017 University of California – Riverside; University of California – Riverside SoBA;
Claremont Graduate University; LA Finance Day (UCLA); Bayesian Crowd
Workshop (Erasmus); Claremont McKenna College
2016 SouthWest Economic and Behavioral Economics (SWEBE) Conference;
Advances in Field Experiments 2016 (University of Chicago); University of
California – Riverside
2015 Econometric Society Annual Meetings, Boston; Claremont Graduate University;
The 13th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference; University of
Arizona; University of Southern California; University of California - Los Angeles
2014 Advances in Econometrics Conference on Bayesian Model Selection - Irvine;
Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics - Chicago; Stanford
Institute for Theoretical Economics (Empirical Implementation of Theoretical
Models); California Econometrics Conference - Stanford; Cal Poly - SLO;
2013 Southwest Economic Theory Conference; Vienna Workshop on High
Dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance; The 11th Annual
International Industrial Organization Conference; University of California, San
Diego; Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings
2012 University of California, Riverside; Econometric Society North American
Summer Meetings
2011 American Financial Association Annual Meetings, Denver; McGill Global Asset
Management Conference, McGill University; Stanford University; University of
California, Berkeley; California Econometrics Conference, University of Southern
California;
2010 University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; University of Wisconsin,
Madison; University of Maryland, Smith School of Business; University of Miami;
University of California, Los Angeles; EC2 Conference on Identification in
Economics, Toulouse;
2009 Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (Psychology and Economics);
University of California, San Diego; California Institute of Technology
Conference Organizer: Bayesian Methods in Microeconometric Modeling, Caltech 2013;
HONORS AND AWARDS
5/2007 Walter P. Heller Award for Outstanding Third-Year Paper, University of
California, San Diego
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