About

Scott Savage is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a PhD from Curtin University of Technology, obtained in 2000, as well as a Master of Economics and a Bachelor of Business from Curtin University of Technology. His specialties include industrial organization and telecommunications. His current research interests focus on consumer demand for broadband, competition in telecommunications markets, and patent valuation. Scott Savage serves as an Associate Editor for Information Economics and Policy, contributing to the academic community through his editorial role. He is based in the Economics Department, where he is actively involved in research and teaching related to competition, consumer demand, patents, and telecommunications.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social Science
• Social psychology
• Ophthalmology
• Business
• Cognitive psychology
• Marketing
• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Medicine

Selected publications

• What Does the Next Decade of Identity Theory Hold? A Crowdsourced Answer on Future Directions of Research

  Frontiers in sociology and social research · 2026-01-01

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• The Impacts of Subsidy Design on Rural Internet Access and Quality

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• The Economic Value of Screenshot Capture

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Social exchange theory

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025-06-03 · 12 citations

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• The Generous Identity and the Moderating Effect of Prominence on Identity Verification for Emotional Outcomes

  Handbooks of sociology and social research · 2025-01-01

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• A Note on Rivalry in the Market for Hate

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• The Downstream Consequences of Race-Related Managerial Job Insecurity: Insights From College Basketball Coaching

  Social Currents · 2024-03-03 · 1 citations

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  We examine how in men’s college basketball coaching, race-related managerial job insecurity trickles down to negatively affect the careers of the subordinates who work for them. Using panel data from a randomly selected group of assistant basketball coaches working under the most prestigious and endowed governing body of collegiate sports in the United States—the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (DI)—we find that, in men’s college basketball coaching, subordinate White coaches are less likely to be involuntarily dismissed than their non-White, predominantly Black, counterparts because non-White subordinates disproportionately work for racially minoritized, predominantly Black, head coaches who themselves face greater job insecurity. We also find involuntary dismissal correlates with whether assistant coaches leave the ranks of NCAA DI men’s college basketball coaching and explains the significant interaction between race and a teams’ performance relative to their respective conferences. These findings illustrate how race-related managerial job insecurity trickles down to negatively affect the job opportunities of their subordinates and, because of homophily, perpetuates racial disadvantage.

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• The Effects of Vertical Integration on Tablet Computer Prices

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• Give and (Not) take: How transparency of refusals and acceptances in reciprocal exchange affects inequality

  Social Science Research · 2024-12-18 · 1 citations

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• Thanks, but No Thanks: How Information About the Refusal (and Acceptance) of Offers Affects How People Distribute Benefits in a Reciprocal Exchange Network

  2024-11-21

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  Abstract Purpose We investigate how information about the refusal and acceptance of offered resources affects the distribution of benefits to self and others in reciprocal exchanges. We distinguish contexts that allow individuals to know whether offered benefits were accepted or refused from contexts that do not. In the process, we also examine how the perceived probability of possible refusal and the actual experience of refusal affect the distribution of benefits. Methodology We conducted a controlled laboratory experiment. Findings Results show people give more when the context allows them to discern whether offers were accepted or refused, but having information about the structure of the network, which may increase the perceived probability of overt rejection, erases this effect. Results also show that in contrast to contexts that inform individuals about the acceptance or refusal of offers, the actual experience of being refused depresses giving. Limitations and implications This study examines giving behaviors in one specific network arrangement, leaving unanswered whether the findings reported here hold for larger, more complex networks. Future work should also examine how gender may affect giving behaviors in these contexts, with a particular focus on how it might affect responses to experiencing refusal. Originality Refusal in reciprocity has been undertheorized and methodologically excluded from exchange studies. We acknowledge that offering a resource does not mean one will accept it and investigate how uncertainty about whether an offered resource will be accepted or refused affects how people distribute resources. We also consider and experimentally test how the perceived probability and the actual experience of being overtly refused affect the distribution of resources.

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Frequent coauthors

• Maureen G. Maguire

  Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

  21 shared

• Daniel Martín

  20 shared

• Juan E. Grunwald

  19 shared

• Ebenezer Daniel

  University of Pennsylvania

  17 shared

• Glenn J. Jaffe

  14 shared

• Ellen Peskin

  Wills Eye Hospital

  12 shared

• Emily Y. Chew

  National Eye Institute

  12 shared

• Cynthia A. Toth

  Duke University

  10 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Curtin University of Technology

  2000

• Other

  University of Western Australia

• Other

  Curtin University of Technology