Romain Gauriot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1147874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romain Gauriot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romain |
| FAMILY NAME | Gauriot |
| SIGNATURE | GAURIOT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7633-7086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disappointment looms around the corner
We study whether restaurants in more visible urban locations receive different customer ratings, consistent with consumer-search models in which prominence interacts with search frictions. Using 1.5 million Yelp reviews of 61,000 restaurants in 18 cities across eight countries, we relate ratings to three location-based proxies for prominence: proximity to tourist landmarks, street corners, and public squares. Across specifications with rich contr…
How Market Prices React to Information
Using a natural experiment setting in binary options markets, we compare the evolution of market prices in situations where the occurrence of public information shocks is contingent on knife-edge conditions and can be considered nearly random. We find that prices mostly react efficiently and quickly to information shocks, adjusting to the new fundamental value. Nonetheless, we observe a tendency for prices to initially under-react when the inform…
Fooled by Performance Randomness
We provide evidence of a violation of the informativeness principle whereby lucky successes are overly rewarded. We isolate a quasi-experimental situation where the success of an agent is as good as random. To do so, we use high-quality data on football (soccer) matches and select shots on goal that landed on the goal posts. Using nonscoring shots, taken from a similar location on the pitch, as counterfactuals to scoring shots, we estimate the ca…
Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests
We study how agents adapt their behaviour to variations of incentives in dynamic contests. We investigate a real dynamic contest with large stakes: professional tennis matches. Situations in which balls bounce very close to the court’s lines are used as the setting of a quasi-experiment providing random variations in winning probability. We find evidence of a momentum effect for men whereby winning a point has a positive causal impact on the prob…
Do agents maximise? Risk taking on first and second serves in tennis
I Take Care of My Own
In most collective actions, individuals' incentives are not perfectly aligned with the goals of the group/team they are part of. We investigate how individual specific incentives affect both individuals and team leaders' strategies in a natural setting. We use a discontinuity in individual rewards in batsmen scoring in cricket to identify the causal effect of such incentives on behavior. We find that batsmen react to the presence of individual-sp…
Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests
We study how agents adapt their behaviour to variations of incentives in dynamic contests. We investigate a real dynamic contest with large stakes: professional tennis matches. Situations in which balls bounce very close to the court’s lines are used as the setting of a quasi-experiment providing random variations in winning probability. We find evidence of a momentum effect for men whereby winning a point has a positive causal impact on the prob…
Do agents maximise? Risk taking on first and second serves in tennis
I Take Care of My Own
In most collective actions, individuals' incentives are not perfectly aligned with the goals of the group/team they are part of. We investigate how individual specific incentives affect both individuals and team leaders' strategies in a natural setting. We use a discontinuity in individual rewards in batsmen scoring in cricket to identify the causal effect of such incentives on behavior. We find that batsmen react to the presence of individual-sp…
I Take Care of My Own
In most collective actions, individuals' incentives are not perfectly aligned with the goals of the group/team they are part of. We investigate how individual specific incentives affect both individuals and team leaders' strategies in a natural setting. We use a discontinuity in individual rewards in batsmen scoring in cricket to identify the causal effect of such incentives on behavior. We find that batsmen react to the presence of individual-sp…
Do agents maximise? Risk taking on first and second serves in tennis
Fooled by Performance Randomness
We provide evidence of a violation of the informativeness principle whereby lucky successes are overly rewarded. We isolate a quasi-experimental situation where the success of an agent is as good as random. To do so, we use high-quality data on football (soccer) matches and select shots on goal that landed on the goal posts. Using nonscoring shots, taken from a similar location on the pitch, as counterfactuals to scoring shots, we estimate the ca…
Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests
We study how agents adapt their behaviour to variations of incentives in dynamic contests. We investigate a real dynamic contest with large stakes: professional tennis matches. Situations in which balls bounce very close to the court’s lines are used as the setting of a quasi-experiment providing random variations in winning probability. We find evidence of a momentum effect for men whereby winning a point has a positive causal impact on the prob…
How Market Prices React to Information
Using a natural experiment setting in binary options markets, we compare the evolution of market prices in situations where the occurrence of public information shocks is contingent on knife-edge conditions and can be considered nearly random. We find that prices mostly react efficiently and quickly to information shocks, adjusting to the new fundamental value. Nonetheless, we observe a tendency for prices to initially under-react when the inform…
Disappointment looms around the corner
We study whether restaurants in more visible urban locations receive different customer ratings, consistent with consumer-search models in which prominence interacts with search frictions. Using 1.5 million Yelp reviews of 61,000 restaurants in 18 cities across eight countries, we relate ratings to three location-based proxies for prominence: proximity to tourist landmarks, street corners, and public squares. Across specifications with rich contr…
Economics (4 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · CONTEST (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · Financial economics (2 works)