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Biographical Sketch |
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Michael Liersch is a Visiting Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2007, and his undergraduate degree in Economics at Harvard University in 1998.
Between earning his degrees at Harvard and UCSD, Professor Liersch worked at Deloitte Consulting, Buy.com (a SoftBank venture), and BroadBand Office (a Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers venture). He has maintained industry ties by examining consumer behavior in order to answer business-critical questions in conjunction with various corporations, industry professionals, and academics.
Professor Liersch's research interests include decision making, time perception, disclosure policies, and compensation, especially as they apply to organizational and management contexts. He currently teaches Management and Organizational Analysis at Stern. |
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Publications |
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- McKenzie, C.R.M., Liersch, M.J., & Finkelstein, S.R. (2006). Recommendations implicit in policy defaults. Psychological Science, 17, 414-420.
- McKenzie, C.R.M., Liersch, M.J., & Yaniv, I. (2008). Overconfidence in interval estimates: What does expertise buy you? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 107, 179-191.
- Liersch, M.J., & McKenzie, C.R.M. (2009). Duration neglect by numbers - And its elimination by graphs. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108, 303-314.
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Selected Papers in Preparation and Under Review |
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- Liersch, M.J., & McKenzie, C.R.M. In defaults we trust.
- McKenzie, C.R.M., & Liersch, M.J. Misunderstanding savings growth: Implications for retirement savings.
- Liersch, M.J., Harris, C.R., & Coburn, N. Framing matters more when gains and losses are experienced, rather than described: How a $3 loss can risk lives.
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Conference Presenations in 2009 |
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- Liersch, M.J., Rottenstreich, Y., Kunreuther, H., & Gong, M. (November 2009). The endowment effect under uncertainty. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.
- Liersch, M.J., & McKenzie, C.R.M. (November 2009). Choosing to re-experience painful memories: Duration neglect in memory, but not in prospective choice. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.
- Liersch, M.J., & McKenzie, C.R.M. (August 2009). In defaults we trust. Biannual Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference, Rovereto, Italy.
- Liersch, M.J., & McKenzie, C.R.M. (August 2009). When do implausible anchors influence judgement? A 2-staged model of anchoring effects. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
- Liersch, M.J., Harris, C.R., & Coburn, N. (August 2009). When are losers more risky than winners? Examining a 'gain-loss affective bias'. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
- McKenzie, C.R.M., & Liersch, M.J. (May 2009). The role of conversational pragmatics in reporting interval estimates. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
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In the News |
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For a full description of Prof. Liersch's professional activities, please see Prof. Liersch's Curriculum Vitae |
