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John Hamman is the Bernard Sliger Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and 2006, respectively, along with a B.S. in Economics summa cum laude from Arizona State University in 2004. Joining Florida State University in 2009 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, he was promoted to Associate Professor and Bernard Sliger Scholar in 2016. In 2024, he assumed the Bernard Sliger Professorship and was appointed Department Chair. From 2021 to 2024, he directed the Experimental Social Science (xs/fs) Research Cluster. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France (2021-2022) and as a Collegium Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Lyon, France (2018-2019). Additionally, he is an associate researcher at the GATE-Lab (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique, Lyon/St-Etienne).

Dr. Hamman employs experimental methods to investigate organizational and managerial economics, behavioral economics, political economy, leadership, delegation, group coordination, and voting under various political institutions, integrating insights from political science and psychology into economic and game-theoretic models. His scholarship, cited over 1,000 times, has appeared in premier outlets including the American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, The Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Organization Science, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Key publications encompass 'Self-interest through delegation: An additional rationale for the principal-agent relationship' (American Economic Review, 2010), 'An experimental investigation of electoral delegation and the provision of public goods' (American Journal of Political Science, 2011), 'Intermediaries in corruption: an experiment' (Experimental Economics, 2014), 'Fool Me Once: An Experiment on Credibility and Leadership' (The Economic Journal, 2020), and 'Managing Uncertainty: An Experiment on Delegation and Team Selection' (Organization Science, 2023). He has received major funding, such as a National Science Foundation grant ($403,882, 2011-2014), the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation Thomas Jefferson Fund Award ($20,000, 2018-2020), and others. Dr. Hamman contributes to the field through editorial roles, including co-editor for Research in Experimental Economics (Volume 19) and section editor for Economics: Open-Access Journal.