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Kevin McCabe is Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University within the Business & Economics faculty. He holds appointments as a research scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and faculty at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. McCabe directs the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics, which was incorporated into ICES in 2019, and co-directs the Neuroscience Imaging Core (NICKI) at the Krasnow Institute. He also affiliates with the Center for Law and Neuroeconomics. McCabe received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and his BS from Villanova University. His career includes prior positions as professor of economics at the University of Arizona, associate professor of accounting at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, and USAID consultant in establishing an MBA program at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland. Additional roles encompass fellow at the Center for Political Economy at Washington University, faculty affiliate at the Center for Research in Learning, Perception, and Cognition at the University of Minnesota, and faculty affiliate at the Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratories at the University of Arizona.
McCabe's academic interests encompass experimental economics, neuroeconomics, computational economics, market design, industrial organization, game theory, monetary theory, and behavioral economics. He has authored or co-authored over 50 articles, including "Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History" with Berg and Dickhaut (Games and Economic Behavior, 1995), "Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games" with Hoffman and Smith (American Economic Review, 1996), "A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person Reciprocal Exchange" with Houser, Ryan, Smith, and Trouard (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001), "Positive Reciprocity and Intentions in Trust Games" with Rigdon and Smith (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003), and "Neural Correlates of Trust" with Krueger et al. (PNAS, 2007). As co-principal investigator, he contributed to National Science Foundation grants, such as "Brain Function and Economic Decision Making" (2001-2003). McCabe is a Distinguished Research Scholar at the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) and Research Fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. He serves on the editorial board of Experimental Economics.
