Biography
Dr. Eric Schmidbauer is an Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida, where he has been on the faculty since 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University at Albany (SUNY). His research examines how firms and consumers make decisions when information is incomplete or strategically provided, with a particular focus on how disclosure, signaling and market design shape pricing, competition and consumer behavior. This work connects economic theory to real-world business settings, including marketing and real estate markets, and has been published in journals including Real Estate Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, International Journal of Industrial Organization and International Journal of Research in Marketing. Dr. Schmidbauer regularly presents at national and international conferences and has served as a referee for leading journals such as Management Science, Econometrica, Journal of Marketing Research and The RAND Journal of Economics. At UCF, he teaches courses in microeconomics, game theory and information economics at the undergraduate, MBA and Ph.D. levels, and he is also teaching in the inaugural cohort of UCF’s Online Space MBA program.
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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
List prices and ‘hot’ real estate markets. (2026) Real Estate Economics, Vol 54, 208–248.
Project selection with biased advice: an experiment on competitive cheap talk (2025). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 232.
Partial Cross Ownership, Exclusive Contracting, and Market Entry (2023). Economics Letters, Vol 226.
Uniform and targeted informative advertising with asymmetric customer loyalty” (2022). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
Free Product Trials: Disclosing Quality and Match Value
Economic Inquiry, 58(4), 1565-1576.
Budget Selection When Agents Compete
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 255-268.
Equilibrium Informativeness in Veto Games
Games and Economic Behavior, 109, 104-125.
New and Improved?
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 56C, 26-48.
Multi-period Competitive Cheap Talk with Highly Biased Experts
Games and Economic Behavior, 102, 240-254.