Matej Lorko, Researcher and lecturer
If interested in
- collaboration on experimental research
- design and testing of behavioral interventions in business
- lectures, workshops or managerial training in behavioral economics
please contact me at matej.lorko[at]gmail.com
Areas of expertise
- behavioral economics
- controlled experiments
- behavioral interventions
- individual decision-making
- strategic interactions and game theory
- incentives and nudge
- project management
- change management
Education
| 2005 – 2008 | Brno University of Technology, Czech republic – IT Management (Bachelor’s degree) |
| 2008 | TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Tampere, Finland – International Business (one semester) |
| 2008 – 2010 | Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic – Company Management and Economics (Master’s degree) |
| 2016 – 2019 | Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Sydney – PhD Candidate/Researcher |
Professional experience
| 2010 – 2016 | IT Project Manager, U. S. Steel Košice, Slovakia |
| 2016 – 2019 | Research assistant, MGSM, Sydney |
Teaching and lecturing experience
| Behavioral Economics | Technical University in Košice, principal lecturer, own designed course Workshops/courses for companies (U. S. Steel, Martinus, SAP Ariba…) Public workshops and seminars |
| Microeconomics | University of Economics in Bratislava, lecturer, introductory course |
| 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) |
| Public Finance / Public economics | University of Economics in Bratislava |
Grants and scholarships
| 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. |
| 2017 | Grant for consultancy on behavioural experiments in public finance from Behavioural Insights Unit, Department of Premier & Cabinet, New South Wales. |
| 2018 | Postgraduate Research Funding (PGRF) at Macquarie University for scientific training. | 2019 | CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellowship for 3 years |
Scientific workshop participation
| 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 |
Publications
- Anchoring in project duration estimation
- Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (A*)
- Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.014
- How to improve the accuracy of project schedules? The Effect of Project Specification and Historical Information on Duration Estimates
- Working paper
- Do people strategically inflate project schedules?
- Working paper
Conference presentations
| 2017 | Economic Science Association European Meeting | Vienna, Austria |
| 2017 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Košice, Slovakia |
| 2018 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Brisbane, Australia |
| 2018 | Young Economist Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
| 2018 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2019 | Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Meeting | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 2019 | Economic Science Association World Meeting | Vancouver, Canada |
| 2019 | Czech Economic Society and Slovak Economic Association Meeting | Brno, Czech republic |
Academic refereeing
| 2019 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
Professional affiliations
| 2014 | Project Management Institute – certified Project Management Professional (PMI) |
| 2017 | Economic Science Association – member |
| 2017 | Slovak Economic Association – member |
| 2018 | GEM – Youth support program – https://www.givingemotionsmeaning.com/ |
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? |
