Prof. Gary E. Bolton

Member of the Global Faculty

O.P. Jindal Distinguished Chair of Management Economics, University of Texas at Dallas 

Gary Bolton is the O.P. Jindal Chair Professor of Management Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also serves as the Co-Director of the Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics. Prof. Bolton has held visiting scholar positions at Harvard Business School, California Institute of Technology, University of Bonn, the Institute of Economic Analysis in Barcelona, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Bolton's research focuses on economic and business decision-making as well as strategic games. He has a particular interest in areas such as bargaining, cooperation, reputation building, social utility, and strategic learning. His work has been published across various disciplines including economics, business, psychology, philosophy, and political science.

Much of Gary Bolton's current work concentrates on designing market mechanisms to encourage better decision-making. This includes developing more effective market feedback systems to promote greater trader trustworthiness, as well as guidance systems to enable more efficient use of scientific forecast information.

• Bolton, Alina Ferecatu, and David Kusterer. Rate this transaction: Coordinating mappings in market feedback systems. Management Science, 2024, 70(1), 567-588.
• Bolton, Sabrina Bonzelet, Tobias Stangl, Ulrich W. Thonemann. Decision Making under Service Level Contracts. Production and Operations Management, 2023, 32(4), 1243-1261.
• Bolton, and Elena Katok. Cry wolf or equivocate? Credible forecast guidance in a cost-loss game. Management Science, 2018, 64(3), 1440-1457.
• Bolton, Johannes Mans, and Axel Ockenfels. Norm enforcement in markets: Group identity and the volunteering of feedback. The Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (629), 1248–1261.
• Bolton, and Axel Ockenfels. ERC: A theory of equity, reciprocity, and competition. American Economic Review, 2000, 90, 166-193.