海角破解版

Economics and Decision Sciences

Haritima ChauhanHaritima Chauhan Headshot Photo
Assistant Professor of Economics and Applied Statistics

Stipes Hall 430L
HS-Chauhan@wiu.edu

Ph.D. Economics, Northern Illinois University, 2018,聽Essays on the Effects of Consumer and Investor Sentiments on Asset Markets and the Macroeconomy
M.A. Economics, Northern Illinois University
M.B.A Finance, IBS Mumbai, India

Dr. Chauhan joined 海角破解版 in 2018. She is an applied economist interested in studying behavior.聽 Her research explores diverse topics such as sentiment analysis in financial markets, economics of lying, role of consumer preferences in explaining financial and macroeconomic fluctuations, and examining the effects of economic events on scale economies, productivity growth and efficiency of industries.

She has experience with various causal econometric models, time series forecasting, deep learning and machine learning algorithms, textual analytics, and optimization. She teaches courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, Python programming, visualization and big data.聽 Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Chauhan worked in the banking and insurance industry and has also worked with several Fortune 500 companies across sectors advising on a variety of business problems including revenue forecasting, 聽predictive modeling, inventory optimization, predictive maintenance, entity segmentation, 聽supplier selection, performance and bargaining solutions. Dr. Chauhan is also a founding member of the Behavioral Economics and Organization Research Group (BEORG).听

Selected Publications

  • Babin, JJ, Chauhan, HS. "Revisiting Erat and Gneezy鈥檚 White Lies Paradigm " (2024, forthcoming Journal of Economic Psychology ).

  • Babin JJ, Chauhan, HS, and Kistler, SL (2024). "When Pretty Hurts: Beauty Premia and Penalties in eSports Contracts." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 217, pp. 726-741 .

  • Babin, JJ, and Chauhan, HS (2023). "Show No Quarter:聽 Combating Plausible Lies with Ex Ante Honesty Oaths" .

  • Babin, JJ, and Chauhan, HS (2023). "Initiating Free-flow Communication in Trust Games."聽 .
  • Babin, JJ, and Chauhan, HS, and Liu, F. (2022). "You Can鈥檛 Hide Your Lying Eyes: Honesty Oaths and Misrepresentation." . Vol. 98.聽

Upper Division and Graduate Course Responsibilities

  • Decision Sciences 533: Applied Business Forecasting and Planning
  • Decision Sciences 521: Data Visualization
  • Economics 487G: Econometrics
  • Decision Sciences 485G: Big Data for Decision Analytics聽聽
  • Decision Sciences 489G: Seminar in Contextual Business Analytics **NEW Forthcoming
  • Economics 408G: Economic Decision Making for Managers
  • Decision Sciences 303: Applied Business Forecasting and Regression Analysis