Working Papers

Editor: Martin Dufwenberg

2008

08-01 Other-Regarding Preferences in General
Equilibrium, Martin Dufwenberg; Paul Heidhues; Georg Kirchsteiger; Frank Riedel; Joel Sobel

08-02 Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score, Jinyong Hahn; Keisuke Hirano; Dean Karlan

08-03 Lagged Beliefs and Reference-Dependent Utility, Alec Smith

2007

07-01 Guilt in Games. Pierpaolo Battigalli; Martin Dufwenberg

07-02 Classical Market Outcomes with Non-Classical Preferences. Georg Kirchsteiger; Martin Dufwenberg

07-03 Separating Reputation, Social Influence, and Identification Effects in a Dictator Game. Maros Servatka

07-04 Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico. Manuela Angelucci

07-05 Peter Bohm: Father of Field Experiments. Martin Dufwenberg; Glenn W. Harrison

07-06 Measuring the Price Impact of Retailers' Locations and Brands. Jedidiah Brewer; Joseph Cullen; Tim Davies

07-07 Interpreting Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes; Audrey Light

07-08 Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes; Arturo Gonzalez; Todd C. Neumann

07-09 BOOK REVIEW: Behavioral Economics and Its Applications (P. Diamond & H. Vartiainen, Eds.). Martin Dufwenberg

07-10 The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression. Leah Platt Boustan; Price V. Fishback; Shawn E. Kantor

07-11 What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Professionals Do Not Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments. Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; and David H. Reiley

07-11 Supplementary Appendix

07-12 Discrete Implementation of the Groves-Ledyard Mechanism. J. Todd Swarthout; Mark Walker

07-13 Measuring the Benefits to Sniping on eBay: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Sean Gray; David H. Reiley

07-14 Checking Out Temptation: A Natural Experiment with Purchases at the Grocery Register. Daniel Houser; David H. Reiley; Michael B. Urbancic

07-15 Field Experiments in Economics [New Palgrave]. David H. Reiley; John A. List

07-16 Big Driving out Small: ‘Hypermarts’ and the Retail Gasoline Industry. Jedidiah Brewer

07-17 Broken Promises: An Experiment. Gary Charness; Martin Dufwenberg

07-18 Entry Threat and Entry Deterrence: the Timing of Broadband Rollout. Mo Xiao; Peter F. Orazem  

07-19 An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price Under Private and Common Values. Quazi Shahriar; John Wooders

2006

06-01 Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: the Case of Progresa and Consumption. Manuela Angelucci; Giacomo De Giorgi

06-02 Contestability and the Significance of the Entrant's Home Market. Utteeyo Dasgupta

06-03 Asymptotics for Statistical Treatment Rules. Keisuke Hirano; Jack R. Porter

06-04 Mixed Strategy Equilibrium [New Palgrave]. Mark Walker; John Wooders

06-05 Psychological Games [New Palgrave]. Martin Dufwenberg

06-06 Decision Theory in Econometrics [New Palgrave]. Keisuke Hirano

06-07 Economics and Property Law [New Palgrave]. Dean Lueck

06-08 Measuring the Sorting and Incentive Effects of Tournament Prizes. Tim Davies; Adrian Stoian

06-09 Irrational Gloominess in the Laboratory. Tim Davies

06-10 Estimating ATT Effects with Non-experimental Data and Low Compliance. Manuela Angelucci; Orazio Attanasio

06-11 The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Strategic Choice. Martin Dufwenberg; Simon Gachter; Hennig-Schmidt

06-12 Capacity Preemption in a Duopoly Market under Uncertainty. Jianjun Wu

06-13 Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues. Manuela Angelucci; Orazio Attanasio

06-14 Online Auctions. Axel Ockenfels; David Reiley; Abdolkarim Sadrieh

06-15 Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958. Joseph Cullen; Price Fishback

06-16 The New Deal (1933-1939). Price Fishback

06-17 Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression. Ryan S. Johnson; Shawn Kantor; Price Fishback

2005

05-01 On Advertising and Price Competition. Ninghua Du.

05-02 Do Price-Matching Guarantees Facilitate Tacit Collusion? An Experimental Study. Subhasish Dugar.

05-03 Behavior in Combined Mechanisms: Auctions with a Pre-Negotiation Stage-An sExperimental Investigation. Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel; Sabine Kröger.

05-04 Bubbles and Experience: An Experiment. Martin Dufwenberg; Tobias Lindqvist; Evan Moore.

05-05 Dynamic Psychological Games. Pierpaolo Battigalli; Martin Dufwenberg.

Revised Version, September 2005

05-06 Field Experiments on the Effects of Reserve Prices in Auctions: More Magic on the Internet. David H. Reiley

05-07 Demand Reduction in Multi-unit Auctions with Varying Numbers of Bidders: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment. Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans; John A. List; David Reiley

05-08 Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions From U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data. Lester D. Taylor

05-09 An Additive Double-Logarithmic Consumer Demand System. Lester D. Taylor

05-10 Chinatown: Transaction Costs in Water Rights Exchanges -- The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles. Gary D. Libecap

05-11 Stripped-down Poker: A classroom Game with Signaling and Bluffing. David H. Reiley; Michael B. Urbancic; Mark Walker

05-12 U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration. Manuela Angelucci

05-13 The War for the Fare: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance. Ryan M. Johnson; David H. Reiley; Juan Carlos Munoz

05-14 Price Discrimination and Resale: A Classroom Experiment. Atin Basuchoudhary; Christopher Metcalf; Kai Pommerenke; David H. Reiley; Christian Rojas; Marzena J. Rostek; James Stodder

05-15 Monopoly Quality Degradation and Regulation in Cable Television. Gregory S. Crawford; Matthew Shum

05-16 Aid Programs' Unintended Effects: The Case of Progresa and Migration. Manuela Angelucci

2004

04-01 Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Zeynep K. Hansen; Gary D. Libecap.

04-02 Gender & Coordination. Martin Dufwenberg; Uri Gneezy.

04-03 Market Dynamics in Edgeworth Exchange. Steven Gjerstad.

04-04 Price Competition: The Role of Gender and Education. Martin Dufwenberg; Uri Gneezy; Aldo Rustichini

04-05 Blowing the Whistle. Jose Apesteguia; Martin Dufwenberg; Reinhard Selten

04-06 Price Competition between International Airlines Alliances. Volodymyr Bilotkach

04-07 Asymmetric Regulation and Airport Dominance in International Aviation: Evidence from the London-New York Market. Volodymyr Bilotkach

04-08 Gender Composition in Teams. Martin Dufwenberg; Astri Muren

Revised Version, August 2005

04-09 The Psychological Game of Trust. Martin Dufwenberg; Werner Guth

04-10 Supply Function Equilibria with Pivotal Electricity Suppliers. Talat Genc; Stanley S. Reynolds

04-11 The Discriminatory Incentives to Bundle in the Cable Television Industry. Gregory S. Crawford

Revised Version, June, 2005.

04-12 Coordination of Purchasing and Bidding Activities Across Markets. Daniel D. Zeng; James C. Cox; Moshe Dror

04-13 When Does an Incentive for Free Riding Promote Rational Bidding? James C. Cox; Stephen C. Hayne

04-14 On Representative Social Capital. Charles Bellemare; Sabine Kroger

04-15 A Tractable Model of Reciprocity and Fairness. James C. Cox; Daniel Friedman; Steven Gjerstad

04-16 Learning But Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanics. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes; Arturo Gonzalaz; Todd Neumann

04-17 Risk Aversion, Beliefs, and Prediction Market Equilibrium. Steven Gjerstad

04-18 Price Floors and Competition. Martin Dufwenberg; Uri Gneezy; Jacob K. Goeree; Rosemarie Nagel

Revised Version, August 2006

04-19 Second-Mover Advantage and Price Leadership in Bertrand Duopoly. Rabah Amiry; Anna Stepanova

04-20 On Taxation Pass-Through for a Monopoly Firm. Rabah Amir; Isabelle Maret; Michael Troge

04-21 Ordinal versus Cardinal Complementarity: The Case of Cournot Oligopoly. Rabah Amir

04-22 Demand Reduction in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment: Reply. Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans; John A. List; David H. Reiley

04-23 Price and Income Elasticities Estimated From BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data. Lester D. Taylor

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2003

03-01 Auctions with a Buy Price. Stanley Reynolds; John Wooders.

03-02 Can General Appeal Win in the Marriage Market? Ramya Sundaram.

03-03 The Impact of Pace in Double Auction Bargaining. Steven Gjerstad.

03-04 The Edgeworth Exchange Formulation of Bargaining Models and Market Experiments. Steven D. Gjerstad; Jason M. Shachat.

03-05 Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes; Audrey Light.

03-06 Bounded Rationality in Laboratory Bargaining with Asymmetric Information. Timothy N. Cason; Stanley S. Reynolds.

03-07 Promises & Partnership. Gary Charness; Martin Dufwenberg.

Revised Version, May 2006

03-08 Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996-1999. Lester D. Taylor.

03-09 Bidding Asymmetries in Multi-Unit Auctions: Implications of Bid Function Equilibria in the British Spot Market for Electricity. Gregory S. Crawford; Joseph Crespo; Helen Tauchen.

3-10 Local Residential Sorting and Public Goods Provision: A Classroom Demonstration, Keith Brouhle; Jay Corrigan, Rachel Croson; Martin Famham; Selhan Garip; :uba Habodaszova; Laurie Johnson; Martin Johnson; David Reiley

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2002

02-02 Barking Up the Right Tree: Are Small Groups Rational Agents? James C. Cox; Stephen C. Hayne.

02-03 When are Women More Generous than Men? James C. Cox; Cary A. Deck.

02-04 A Tractable Model of Reciprocity and Fairness. James C. Cox; Daniel Friedman.

02-05 The Impact of Trembling on Behavior in the Trust Game. James C. Cox; Cary A. Deck.

02-06 Specialization in the Marriage Market: When is it Valuable? Ramya Sundaram.

02-07 Stable Matching in a Marriage Market When Preferences are Heterogeneous. Ramya Sundaram.

02-08 Hide and Seek in Arizona. Robert W. Rosenthal; Jason Shachat; Mark Walker.

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2001

01-02 "The Efficiency of Centralized and Decentralized Markets for Lemons". Diego Moreno; John Wooders.

Revised Version, September 2001.

01-03 "Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: Coherence for Small- and Large-Stakes Gambles". James C. Cox; Vjollca Sadiraj.

01-04 "On the Economics of Reciprocity". James C. Cox.

01-05 Competition For vs On the Rails: A Laboratory Experiment. James C. Cox; Theo Offerman; Mark A. Olson; Arthur J.H.C. Schram.

01-06 Trust, Fear, Reciprocity, and Altruism. James C. Cox; Klarita Sadiraj; Vjollca Sadiraj.

01-07 Strategic Interaction in Iterated Zero-Sum Games. Giorgio Coricelli.

01-08 Behavior in a Dynamic Decision Problem: Evidence from the Laboratory. Daniel Houser, Michael Keane and Kevin McCabe.

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2000

00-01 "Reputation in Internet Auctions: Theory and Evidence from eBay". Daniel Houser; John Wooders.

00-02 "How Centrally Planned was China's Great Leap Forward Demographic Disaster?" Daniel Houser; Barbara Sands.

00-03 "Policy Research Needs Phenomenological Theories of Local Justice". Edward E. Zajac.

00-04 "Rain Follows the Plow:" The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925. Gary D. Libecap; Zeynep Kocabiik Hansen.

00-05 "Public Choice Issues in International Collective Action: Global Warming Regulation". Joseph R. Bial; Daniel Houser; Gary D. Libecap.

00-06 "The Importance of Firm Cost Heterogeneity in Policy Design and Support: Differential Reaction to the Supreme Court's Rejection of New Deal Agricultural and Industrial Policies". Barbara Alexander; Gary D. Libecap.

00-07 "Contracting for Property Rights". Gary D. Libecap; National Bureau of Economic Research.

00-08 "Information Distortion and Competitive Remedies in Government Transfer Programs: The Case of Ethanol". Ronald N. Johnson; Gary D. Libecap.

00-09 "Regulatory Remedies to the Common Pool: The Limits to Oil Field Unitization". Gary D. Libecap; James L. Smith.

00-10 "Unobserved Heterogeneity and Equilibrium: An Experimental Study of Bayesian and Adpative Learning in Normal Form Games". Jason Shachat; Mark Walker.

00-11 "Trust and Reciprocity: Implications of Game Triads and Social Contexts". James C. Cox.

00-12 "Equilibrium Play in Matches: Binary Markov Games". Mark Walker; John Wooders.

00-13 "Bayesian Analysis of a Dynamic Stochastic Model of Labor Suply and Saving". Daniel Houser.

00-14 "How Do Behavioral Assumptions Affect Structural Inference? Evidence From a Laboratory Experiment". Daniel Houser; Joachim Winter.

00-15 "Individual Differences in Cooperation in a Circular Public Goods Game". Daniel Houser; Robert Kurzban.

00-17 "Implications of Game Triads for Observations of Trust and Reciprocity". James C. Cox.

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