Author: doc. Ing. Maroš Servátka, PhD.

doc. Ing. Maroš Servátka, PhD.

Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Finance

Department: Department of Finance

Position: associate professor

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Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person

Second degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Quantitative Methods and Inforrmation Systems, 2000, School Glówna Handlowa

Third degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Economics, 2006, University of Arizona

Associate professor

Study field and programme: Finance, banking and investment, 2022, University of Economics in Bratislava

Professor

Study field and programme: Economics, 2015, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

Current and previous employment

Professor
University of Economics in Bratislava
10/2024 -

Professor
Macquarie Graduate School of Management
2015 -

Associate Professor
University of Canterbury
2007-2015

Postdoc
University of Mannheim
2006

Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

Number of defended theses

Diploma (second degree): 20

Dissertation (third degree): 15

Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 36

Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 140

Number of invited lectures at the international, national level: 120

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Designing Call Auction Institutions to Eliminate Price Bubbles: Is English Dutch the Best? (with Cary Deck & Steven Tucker)

American Economic Review: Insights, 2(2), 2020, 225-236.

Transaction Costs, the Opportunity Cost of Time and Procrastination in Charitable Giving (with Stephen Knowles)

Journal of Public Economics, 125, 2015, 54-63.

Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation (with Hodaka Morita)

European Economic Review, 58, 2013, 95-109.

Separating Reputation, Social Influence, and Identification Effects in a Dictator Game

European Economic Review, 53, 2009, 197-209

Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission (with James C. Cox & Radovan Vadovič)

Experimental Economics, 20, 2017, 1-18. [lead article]

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

To Keep People from Procrastinating, Don't Give Them a Deadline (with Amy Meeker, Stephen Knowles, Trudy Sullivan, and Murat Genç) Harvard Business Review, September-October 2022.

Improving the Accuracy of Project Schedules (with Matej Lorko & Le Zhang) Production & Operations Management, 30, 2021, 1633-1646.

Attainment of Equilibrium via Marshallian Path Adjustment: Queueing and Buyer Determinism (with Sean Collins, Duncan James & Radovan Vadovič) Games & Economic Behavior, 125, 2021, 94-106.

A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays (with Matej Lorko & Le Zhang) MIT Sloan Management Review, 66, Winter 2025, 18-19.

Honesty in the City, (with Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Feldman, Jorge Tarrasó, and Radovan Vadovič), Games & Economic Behavior, 139, 2023, 15-25.

Why Do Some Nudges Work and Others Not? (with Matej Lorko and Tomáš Miklánek) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 235, 2025, 107074.

Hidden Inefficiency: Strategic Inflation of Project Schedules (with Matej Lorko, and Le Zhang) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 206, 2023, 313-326.

The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 2022, Financial Decision Making of Young Australians (with R. Wood, W. Mailer, D. Kent, V. Mollica), 2022-26,

Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research & Sport and Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA), 2021, The Effect of Psychological Nudges and Economic Incentives on Tax Compliance (with M. Lorko), 2021-25,

Slovak Research and Development Agency, 2020, Evidence-Based Policy Making, APVV 19-0573 (with Z. Brokešová, M. Lorko, J. Péliová, and R. Slonim), 2020-24,

Czech Science Foundation, 2019, Unintended Consequences of Promotions in Organizations, GAČR 20-12863S (with B. Baisa and J. Špálek), 2020-22,

Slovak Research and Development Agency, 2024, Financial Literacy and Information Sources: How to Make Better Decisions? APVV 23-0329 (with A. Cupák, M. Lorko and others), 2024-27, 199,982 Euro.

Macquarie Research Fellowship, 2024, Sponsor for Daniel Woods' application on Using Behavioral Economics to Analyze how People Decide Between Known and Unfamiliar Options, and their Climate Impact, 2025-27

Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years