Matej Lorko, researcher and lecturer
Areas of expertise: behavioral economics, economic experiments, behavioral interventions, individual decision-making, strategic interactions and game theory, market design, incentives and nudge, project management, change management
Please contact me at matej.lorko[at]gmail.com if interested in
- collaboration on experimental research in economics
- design and testing of behavioral interventions in business
- lectures, workshops or managerial training in behavioral economics
Education
2016 – 2020 | Ph.D. degree from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Sydney, Australia – Experimental and behavioral economics |
2008 – 2010 | Master’s degree from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic – Company Management and Economics |
2005 – 2008 | Bachelor’s degree from Brno University of Technology, Czech republic – IT Management |
2008 | One semester at TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Tampere, Finland – International Business |
Professional experience
2020 – | Behavioral interventions consultant, Allianz, Slovakia |
2019 – | Assistant professor, University of economics in Bratislava, Slovakia |
2016 – 2019 | Research assistant, MGSM, Sydney, Australia |
2010 – 2016 | IT Project Manager, U. S. Steel Košice, Slovakia |
Teaching experience
Behavioral Economics | Technical University in Košice (2018) |
Microeconomics | University of Economics in Bratislava (from 2018) |
Economic Context of Management |
Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney Teaching Assistant (MBA Course Unit, MGSM 845) Guest Lecturer – Decision-making under risk and uncertainty (2017), Experimental labor economics (2018) |
Behavioral Public Finance | University of Economics in Bratislava (from 2019) |
Economics research methodology | University of Economics in Bratislava (2020) |
Presentation and communication skills | University of Economics in Bratislava (2020) |
Public workshops and seminars
Behavioral economics for enterpreneurs | For Slovak Business Agency (2020) |
(I)rrationality from the perspective of behavioral economics | For Vedátor_sk (2020) |
Introduction to behavioral finance | For Investors club (2019) |
Introduction to behavioral economics | For Martinus, SAP Ariba (2018) |
Decision-making: Intuition vs. statistics | For U.S.Steel, Slovak association of psychology students (2017) |
What influences our judgments and decisions? | For Coworking co-Šicke (2016) |
Grants and scholarships
2020 | Slovak Research and Development Agency, Increasing the Efficiency of Voluntary Donations, APVV 19-0573 |
2019 | CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowship for 3 years |
2018 | Postgraduate Research Funding (PGRF) at Macquarie University for scientific training. |
2017 | Grant for consultancy on behavioural experiments in public finance from Behavioural Insights Unit, Department of Premier & Cabinet, New South Wales. |
2016 | International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship for 3 years to conduct PhD research at MGSM, Sydney. MGSM belongs to the world’s top 50 business schools according to Financial Times and the Economist. |
Scientific workshop participation
2020 | ECMCRC Summer School on behavioral and neuroscientific research for Economics and Finance, Dublin, Ireland (online) |
2019 | Career Integration Fellows Teaching Principles and Practices for Economics Course, Prague, Czech republic |
2019 | Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California |
2018 | Ronald Coase Institute: Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Bratislava, Slovakia |
2017 | Max Planck Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany |
Scientific publications
Anchoring in project duration estimation | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.014 |
Improving the accuracy of project schedules | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/poms.13299 |
Hidden Inefficiency: Strategic Inflation of Project Schedules | With Maroš Servátka and Lyla Zhang Working paper |
Effective coordination on volunteering markets | With Robert Slonim, Michal Ďuriník and Maroš Servátka Working paper |
Conference presentations
2020 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Online |
2020 | Economic Science Association Global Around-the-Clock Virtual Conference | Online |
2019 | Czech Economic Society and Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
2019 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Vancouver, Canada |
2019 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
2018 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Bratislava, Slovakia |
2018 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Berlin, Germany |
2018 | Young Economist Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
2018 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Brisbane, Australia |
2017 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Košice, Slovakia |
2017 | Economic Science Association European Meeting | Vienna, Austria |
Academic refereeing
2020 | International Review of Economics |
2019 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
Professional affiliations
From 2017 | Economic Science Association – member |
From 2017 | Slovak Economic Association – member |
From 2014 | Project Management Institute – certified Project Management Professional (PMI) |
In Press
Forbes (SK) | Interview with my supervisor & mentor Maroš Servátka about Behavioral Economics |
Forbes (SK) | Six suggestions from my research for better project planning |
Denník N (SK) | Why projects suffer from overoptimistic time estimates? |
Macquarie University (EN) | Why people and companies keep repeating the same planning mistakes? |