Mana Komai

PhD, VPI, May 2004

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

381 Stewart Hall

SCSU

 

Contact Information:

Tel:

(320) 308-2072

Fax:

(320) 308-2228

Email:

mkomai@stcloudstate.edu

Office Hours:

MW 10:30-1:30 and by appointment

 

Research Interests:

 

Publications

 

·         Mana Komai (with Mark Stegeman and Benjamin Hermalin), “Leadership and Information”, American Economic Review, 2007.

 

·         Mana Komai, “Leading the Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate the Free Riding Problem?”, Iranian Economic Review, 2007.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Mark Stegeman), “Leadership Based on Asymmetric Information”, Rand Journal of Economics, Forthcoming.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman), “Leadership and Group Size: an Experiment”, Economics letters, forthcoming.

 

·         Mana Komai, “Economics of Envy”, Lamp of Liberty, Cato International, 2007, in Persian.

 

·         Mana Komai, “A Review of Behavioral Economics”, Lamp of Liberty, Cato International, 2007, in Persian.

 

·         Mana Komai, “A Survey of Female Labor Participation”, Lamp of Liberty, Cato International, 2008, in Persian.

 

·         Mana Komai, “Female Labor Participation in Iran, 1960-2006”, Lamp of Liberty, Cato International, 2008, in Persian.

 

 

Revise and Resubmits

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman), “Leadership and Gender: an Experiment”, Economics letters, under second review, 2009.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman and Travis Deters), “Leadership and Information in a Single Shot Collective Action Game”, Management and Economic Decision Making, under revision to be resubmitted (second review), 2008.

 

Working Papers

 

·         Mana Komai (with Phil Grossman), “Extra Credits versus Monetary Awards in the Lab” Working Paper (2006).

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman and James Jensen), “Leadership and Gender in Collective actions”, Working Paper, 2009.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman), “Leadership in Large Groups”, Working Paper, 2009.

 

Research in Progress

 

·         Mana Komai (with Mark Stegeman), “Leadership and Credibility”.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Philip Grossman), “Economics of Hope: an Experimental Study”.

 

·         Mana Komai (with Phil Grossman), “Do Leaders Choose to be Transparent?”.