Research

Center for Behavioral Economics, Experiments and Public Policy faculty affiliates conduct applied research in the emerging field of behavioral economics.

Examples of applied research include experimental interventions to improve students’ academic performance; quantifying the effect of school spending on cognitive skills; comparisons of market and non-market mechanisms to achieve specific social goals such as pollution reduction and promotion of research and development; and evaluating the effectiveness of health, education and environmental improvement programs implemented in developing and advanced economies.

Recent Publications Working Papers

Evan Calford and Timothy Cason (2024), "Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision." American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, vol. 16, pp. 236-266. Download Paper
David Gill and Yaroslav Rosokha (2024), "Beliefs, learning, and personality in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. 16(3), pp. 259-283. Download Paper
Özgür Kibris, Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Elchin Suleymanov (2024), "A Random Reference Model." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(1): pp. 155-209. Download Paper
David Gill and Victoria Prowse, (2024). “The creativity premium: Exploring the link between childhood creativity and life outcomes.” Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 2(3): pp. 495-526. Download Paper
Marcos Cardozo, Yaroslav Rosokha, and Cathy Zhang (2024), "On the Emergence of International Currencies: An Experimental Approach." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming. Download Paper
Christopher Brown and Timothy Cason (2024), "Local Inequality and Own Rank Preferences." Experimental Economics, forthcoming. Download Paper
Yaroslav Rosokha and Chen Wei, (2024) "Cooperation in Queuing Systems." Management Science, forthcoming. Download Paper
Timothy Cason, Alex Tabarrok and Robertas Zubrickas, (2024)"Signaling Quality: How Refund Bonuses can Overcome Information Asymmetries in Crowdfunding." Management Science, forthcoming. Download Paper
Yaroslav Rosokha, Xinxin Lyu, Denis Tverskoi, and Sergey Gavrilets (2024), "Evolution of cooperation in the indefinitely repeated collective action with a contest for power." Economic Theory. Download Paper.
Timothy Cason, Tridib Sharma and Radovan Vadovic (2024), "Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naïve Play in Hawk-Dove Games." Economic Theory, forthcoming. Download Paper
Christopher Brown (2024), "Team Production in Endogenous Networks." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 217, 560-580. Download Paper
J. Lucas Reddinger, Gary Charness, and David Levine (2024), "Vaccination as personal public-good provision." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 224 (August) 481--499. Download Paper
J.G. Nuño-Ledesma, S.Y. Wu, and J.V. Balagtas (2024), "Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Nonlinear Pricing Approach." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 106, pp. 967–981. Download Paper
Zhaoyang Liu, Simanti Banerjee, Timothy Cason, Nick Hanley, Qi Liu, Jintao Xu and Andreas Kontoleon (2024), "Spatially Coordinated Conservation Auctions: A Framed Field Experiment Focusing on Farmland Wildlife Conservation in China." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 106, pp. 1354-1379. Download Paper
Md. Reya Shad Azim, Timothy Cason and Mustafa Abdalla (2024), "A Quantal Response Analysis of Human Decision-Making in Interdependent Security Games Modeled by Attack Graphs," IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 56159-56178.
Julian Romero and Yaroslav Rosokha (2023), "Mixed Strategies in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma." Econometrica, 91(6), pp. 2295-2331. Download Paper
Paul Ferraro, Todd Cherry, Jason Shogren, Christian Vossler, Timothy Cason, et al. (2023), "Create a Culture of Experiments in Environmental Programs." Science, vol. 381, pp. 735–7. Download Paper
David Gill and Victoria Prowse (2023), "Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking." Economic Journal, vol. 133 (650), pp. 761–86. Download Paper
Janet Hua Jiang, Daniela Puzzello, and Cathy Zhang (2023), "Inflation, Output, and Welfare in the Laboratory." European Economic Review, February; 152:104351. Download Paper
Elchin Suleymanov (2024). "Branching-Independent Random Utility Model." Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 220, 105880. Download Paper
Matthew Kovach (2023), "Ambiguity and Partial Bayesian Updating." Economic Theory, vol. 78, pp. 155-180. Download Paper
Charles Plott, Timothy Cason, Ben Gillen, Hsing Lee, and Travis Maron (2023), "General Equilibrium Methodology Applied to the Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Large, Multi-Market and Multi-Unit Policy Constrained Auctions." Economic Theory, vol. 75, pp. 641–93. Download Paper
Özgür Kıbrıs, Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Elchin Suleymanov (2023), "A theory of reference point formation." Economic Theory, vol. 75., pp. 137–166. Download Paper
Junya Zhou (2023), "Costly verification and commitment in persuasion." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 212, pp. 1100–1142. Download Paper
Matthew Kovach and Elchin Suleymanov (2023), "Reference dependence and random attention." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 215, pp. 421-441. Download Paper
Evan Calford and Gregory DeAngelo (2023), "Ambiguity and Enforcement." Experimental Economics, vol. 26, pp. 304–338. Download Paper
Timothy Cason, John Stranlund and Frans de Vries (2023), "Investment Incentives in Tradable Emissions Markets with Price Floors." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 10, pp. 283–314. Download Paper
Stanton Hudja and Daniel Woods (2023), "Exploration versus exploitation: A laboratory test of the single-agent exponential bandit model." Economic Inquiry. Download Paper
Karthik Kannan, Vandith Pamuru, and Yaroslav Rosokha (2023), "Analyzing Frictions in Generalized Second-Price Auction Markets." Information Systems Research, 34(4), pp.1437-1454. Download Paper
Gary Charness, Michael Cooper, and J. Lucas Reddinger (2023), "Non-financial motivation in the workplace." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing. 134--140.

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