Distinguished Professor of Economics
Gadomski Chair of Economics
Director of Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory (VSEEL)
Ph.D., Economics, University of California (Berkeley)
B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Indiana University (Bloomington)
Professor Cason's teaching and research interests are in the areas of industrial organization, experimental economics, and environmental economics. His current research areas include experimental markets, environmental regulation, and antitrust.
He has published research in many leading journals, including Science, the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a former Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, a past editor of the journal Experimental Economics, and has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Games and Economic Behavior.
He was President of the Economic Science Association (2009-2011), which is the international society of experimental economists. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1998, he was an associate professor (1997-98) and assistant professor (1991-97) at the University of Southern California. He has done public utility, regulatory and antitrust consulting.
Countries across the globe now use emissions-trading systems as a policy to cost-effectively reduce pollution. But what incentives do these tradable-permit markets offer companies to invest in advanced pollution-abatement technology? Purdue University’s Tim Cason, the Gadomski Chair of Economics at the Krannert School of Management, is addressing that question through experimental economics.
Video by Tim Cason for the Purdue Research Center in Economics
The Daniels School of Business’ new Center for Behavioral Economics, Experiments and Public Policy (BEEP) recently hosted Nobel Laureate and former Purdue faculty member Vernon Smith at the center’s first workshop, which was aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and early career researchers.
Full story: Economics workshop and conference welcomes home Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith
cason@purdue.edu
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Behavioral Economics, Environment, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Public Economics
