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Fields of Specialization

Applied Microeconomics:

  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Information Economics
  • Electronic Commerce

Publications

Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription,” with Julian Jamison, Alexander S. Karlan, and Dean S. Karlan. Economic Inquiry, forthcoming. (PDF of earlier version.)

Remain Silent & Ye Shall Suffer: Seller Exploitation Of Reticent Buyers In An Experimental Reputation System,” with Tapan Khopkar. Experimental Economics, forthcoming.

“User cost, usage and library purchasing of electronically-accessed journals,” with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason. In Wendy Pradt Lougee and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, eds., Economics and usage of digital libraries: byting the bullet. University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office, 2008.

“When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting” with Yan Chen. The American Economic Review, 94(5), December 2004, pages 1505–1503. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. In Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rogríquez-Aguilar & William E. Walsh, eds., Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V: Designing Mechanisms and Systems. Springer Verlag, 2004. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing What to Learn,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. Computational Intelligence, 18(4), 2002, pages 566–582. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Evidence from the Field,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Juan F. Riveros. In Ingo Vogelsand & Benjamin M. Compaine, eds., The Internet Upheaval. MIT Press, 2000. (PDF of earlier version.)

“System Design, User Costs, and Electronic Usage of Journals,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. In Wendy Lougee and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, eds., Title Forthcoming. MIT Press, forthcoming. (PDF of earlier version.)

Papers Under Review

“A Shared Sense of Responsibility: The Effect of Buyout Options on Effort Contributions to Reduce Carbon Emissions,” with Jared C. Carbone.

“Revealed Preferences: Altruism and Relative Consumption,” with Rahul Deb and Matthew J. Kotchen.

Learning to Play Nash from the Best.” (Revise and resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior.)

I’ll cross that bridge if I get to it: Focusing on the Near (Certain) Future,” with Lina Walker. (Previously circulated as “Behavioral Biases in Annuity Choice: An Experiment”).

“Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring.”

“Endogenous Differentiation of Information Goods under Uncertainty,” with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason.

Working Papers

Endogenous Differentiation of Information Goods under Uncertainty,” with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason.

Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring.”

Works in Progress

“Deferred Payout Annuities and Behavioral Biases,” with George MacKenzie and Lina Walker.

“Herd Behavior and Group Identity: An Experiment,” with Christopher Warren. “Market Experience and Loss Aversion: Another Experiment,” with Elizabeth Kapnick.

“Imitation to Dominance? Learning from Others and Selection of Pareto-Ranked Equilibria”

“Aspirations versus Conformity in Learning from Others”

“Learning to Play Nash from Random Others,” with Christopher Geissler.

“Décor as a Signal of Restaurant Quality?,” with Andrew Pocius.