Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli

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Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli

  • Research Fellow
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Omar Al-Ubaydli is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. His primary research fields are experimental economics, political economy, and the economics of science.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

An Experimental Study of Asymmetric Reciprocity

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli | Nov 2009
When deviating from best responses, do people have a stronger propensity to increase or decrease other people’s payoffs? The authors find that negative intentions are more likely to induce payoff decreases than positive intentions are to induce payoff increases.
Journal Article

Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli | Oct 07, 2008
The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by applying principles from the field of economics.

MEDIA CLIPPINGS

The Progress Report

Publish and be wrong

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli | Oct 21, 2008
Economist, The

Publish and be wrong

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli | Oct 09, 2008
The October 9, 2008 issue of The Economist cited research co-authored by Mercatus's Omar Al-Ubaydli in the piece, "Publish and be wrong." The article is available here with subscription. Read the study, "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science," here.…
Lab Notes (Newsweek)

Don't Believe What You Read, Redux

Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli | Oct 06, 2008
In a story Oct. 6, 2008 in Newsweek, Omar Al-Ubaydli was quoted in a story on his study on scientific publishing. Read the whole story here.   In 2005, John P. A. Ioannidis of Greece's University of Ioannina School of Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston shook up the world of science with…