Fields: Experiments, game theory, mechanism design, and micro theory.


Refereed Publications
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"The Trouble With Overconfidence"
(with Don Moore)
Psychological Review, forthcoming.
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"Group Reputations, Stereotypes, and Cooperation in a Repeated Labor Market"
American Economic Review, 97(5): 1751-1773. December 2007.
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"Contracting Inside an Organization: An Experimental Study"
(with John Ledyard, Charles Noussair, Harley Thronson*, Peter Ulrich*, and Julio Varsi* [*NASA])
Experimental Economics, 10(2): 143-167. June 2007.
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"Learning Dynamics for Mechanism Design:
       An Experimental Comparison of Public Goods Mechanisms
"
Journal of Economic Theory, 129(1): 114-149. July 2006.
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"Bidding Behavior in the Price is Right Game: An Experimental Study"
(with Charles Noussair)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 54(2): 231-247. June 2004.
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I was interviewed by CBC Radio (Canada) in May, 2007 about this paper. You can listen to the broadcast.



Non-Refereed Publications & Commentaries
"Comment on 'Thirteen Reasons Why the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves
       Process is Not Practial' by Michael Rothkopf
" (Invited)
Operations Research 55 (March-April 2007) Online Forum Commentary



Working Papers
"Bayesian Overconfidence"
(with Don Moore)
Under review
-Winner of the 2007 Roman Weil prize, Tepper School of Business, CMU.
-Selected as a 'Best Paper' for the 2007 Academy of Management (AoM) annual meeting.
  A short version appeared in the conference proceedings.
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"Updating Toward the Signal"
(with Christopher Chambers)
Under review
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"On the Robustness of 'Good News and Bad News' "
(with Christopher Chambers)
Under review

"Public Goods, Bounded Attention Spans and Equilibrium in the Internet Economy"
(with John Conley)
Under review

"Prediction Market Alternatives for Complex Environments"
(with John Ledyard, Sera Linardi, and Richard Lowery)
Under review
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"Equilibrium Participation in Public Goods Allocations"
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Work in Progress
"Supermodular Nash Implementation of the Lindahl Correspondence"
(with Laurent Mathevet)

"Belief Learning in an Unstable Infinite Game"
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"Alternative Specifications of Multiplicative Risk Premia"
(with Brian Rogers)



Other Documents
Graduate Econometrics Review Book
(Incomplete set of notes on econometrics)