Office
Salisbury Labs 310B
Personal Website
Affiliated Department or Office
Economics
Education
PhD Economics University of Calgary 2010
MA Economics University of Toronto 2004
BA Economics York University 2003

See my personal website (https://followthe6.com) for a description of my work to incorporate Behavioral Economics into Personal Finance.

Affiliated Department or Office
Economics
Education
PhD Economics University of Calgary 2010
MA Economics University of Toronto 2004
BA Economics York University 2003

See my personal website (https://followthe6.com) for a description of my work to incorporate Behavioral Economics into Personal Finance.

Office
Salisbury Labs 310B
Personal Website
Research Interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Personal Finance

Scholarly Work

"How to Follow the 6 Rules of Building Wealth: A Behavioral Economist's Advice about Personal Finance" Book Manuscript

de Oliveira, Angela C. M., Alexander Smith, and John Spraggon (2017). "Reward the Lucky? An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Agency and Luck on Bonuses." Journal of Economic Psychology, 62(1), 87 - 97.

Chaudhuri, Ananish, Tirnud Paichayontvijit, and Alexander Smith (2017). "Belief Heterogeneity and Contributions Decay among Conditional Cooperators in Public Goods Games." Journal of Economic Psychology, 58(1), 15 - 30.

Smith, Alexander (2013). "Estimating the Causal Effect of Beliefs on Contributions in Repeated Public Good Games." Experimental Economics, 16(3), 414 - 425.

Smith, Alexander (2012). "Group Composition and Conditional Cooperation." Journal of Socio-Economics, 40(5), 616 - 622.

Media Coverage

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The New York Times
Travel Now, Pay Later? What to Know Before You Splurge.

Buy-now-pay-later financing is increasingly being used by consumers to pay for travel expenses. Alexander Smith, associate professor of economics in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, shared his thoughts with the New York Times on how the practice can affect long-term personal financial planning. 

WalletHub
Ask the experts: Zero-Based Budgeting

Alexander Smith, associate professor in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, answered some frequently asked questions in a WalletHub article about zero-based budgeting, which is a strategy that seeks to help you organize your finances and avoid overspending.