Associate Professor of Economics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Belk College of Business
Krista Saral
Krista Saral
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Chercheur Associée, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
- Department of Economics, Belk College of Business
- 9201 University City Blvd.
- Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
- ksaral@charlotte.edu
About
I am an experimental economist. Most of my work tests theoretical predictions of behavior in markets and organizations, while allowing for the behavioral anomalies that standard models leave out. I am drawn to settings where those departures matter most — when bidders can resell what they win, when workers form beliefs about colleagues they never see, or when groups must deliberate before they make a decision.
I joined UNC Charlotte (US) in 2019, after nearly a decade at Webster University Geneva (Switzerland), and I remain an associated researcher at GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne (France). I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University.
Research Areas
Auctions and Market Design
Resale, speculation, demand reduction, and limited liability in single-unit and multi-unit auctions.
Teams and Groups
Why people join teams, how effort responds to beliefs about coworkers, remote work, and how groups deliberate before they vote.
Entrepreneurship
Experimental approaches to entrepreneurial decision making.
Experimental Design and Behavioral Economics
How design choices such as real versus stylized effort tasks, and framing, shape observed behavior.
Current Positions
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Present 2019
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Present 2015
Chercheur Associée
GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique, CNRS)