Rate My Professor Brock Stoddard

Brock Stoddard is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University, having joined the faculty in 2017 as an Assistant Professor, promoted to Associate Professor in 2020, and to full Professor in 2025. Prior to Appalachian State, he served as an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of South Dakota from 2013 to 2017. He also held a Visiting Adjunct Professor position at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Fall 2021. Stoddard earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University in 2013, with dissertation committee chaired by James M. Walker and including Arlington W. Williams, Daniela Puzzello, and Volodymyr Lugovskyy. He received his M.A. in Economics from Indiana University in 2011 and B.S. in Economics from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2008.

Stoddard's research focuses on experimental economics, behavioral economics, applied game theory, public economics, and industrial organization. He has secured funding from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) for $10,000 on 'The market for talent: competition for resources and self-governance,' the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University for $2,000, and multiple internal grants at Appalachian State University, including Dean’s Club Grants totaling $9,000 from 2017-2023, Faculty Reassigned Time in 2019, and University Research Council grants. He received the Daniel J. Duesterberg Award for Research in Public Policy in Spring 2012. His publications appear in top journals such as Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Games and Economic Behavior, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, and Northwestern Law Review. Key works include 'Naturally occurring enhancements to competition for talent in teams' with Ramalingam and Walker (Experimental Economics, 2024); 'Does reducing inequality increase competition?' with Ramalingam (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024); 'Strategic thinking in contests' with Bruner, Cox, and McEvoy (Experimental Economics, 2022); 'Common-value public goods and informational social dilemmas' with Cox (American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021); and 'The market for talent: Competition for resources and self-governance in teams' with Ramalingam and Walker (Games and Economic Behavior, 2019). Stoddard has presented at ESA World Meetings, SEA Conferences, Public Choice Society, and invited seminars at institutions including University of Alabama, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and University of Keio. He has refereed for journals like Journal of Public Economics and Experimental Economics.