Most recent update: April 2007
Date of birth: 6 May 1969
Citizenship: USA
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. (Economics), August 1997
Virginia Tech, B.S. (Mathematics), 1991
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“Efficiency in the trust game: an experimental study of precommitment” (with Juergen Bracht), forthcoming, International Journal of Game Theory. Sample instructions from one of our treatments can be found here. Other sets of instructions are available upon request. (This paper used to be called “Efficiency in the trust game: an experimental study of preplay contracting”.) |
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“Words, deeds, and lies: strategic behavior in games with multiple signals” (with John Duffy), The Review of Economic Studies 73 (2006), pp. 669-688. |
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“Slow learning in the market for lemons: a note on reinforcement learning and the winner's curse,” in Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence, Shu-Heng Chen, Lakhmi Jain, and Chung-Ching Tai, eds., Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp. 149-160. |
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| “Critical values for the robust rank-order test,” Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation 34 (2005), pp. 525-547. | |||
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“An experimental study of statistical discrimination by employers” (with Chris Papageorgiou), Southern Economic Journal 70 (2004), pp. 837-849. |
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“Nonparametric tests of differences in medians: comparison of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney and robust rank-order tests,” Experimental Economics 6 (2003), pp. 273-297. |
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“Relative versus absolute speed of adjustment in strategic environments: responder behavior in ultimatum games” (with David Cooper, Alvin Roth, and Rami Zwick), Experimental Economics 6 (2003), pp. 181-207. |
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“Too cool for school? Signalling and countersignalling” (with Rick Harbaugh and Ted To), RAND Journal of Economics 33 (2002), pp. 630-649. (For more, see our write-up in The Economist.) |
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“Do actions speak louder than words? An experimental comparison of observation and cheap talk” (with John Duffy), Games and Economic Behavior 39 (2002), pp. 1-27. |
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“Mergers, welfare, and concentration: results from a model of Stackelberg-Cournot oligopoly,” Atlantic Economic Journal 29 (2001), pp. 378-392. |
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“Reinforcement-based vs. beliefs-based learning in experimental asymmetric-information games,” Econometrica 68 (2000), pp. 605-641. |
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“Equilibrium and reinforcement learning in private-information games: an experimental study,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control23 (1999), pp. 1605-1632. |
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“Does observation of others affect learning in strategic environments? An experimental study” (with John Duffy), International Journal of Game Theory 28 (1999), pp. 131-152. |
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“Slow learning in the market for lemons: a note on reinforcement learning and the winner’s curse,” Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, 2003, pp. 1023-1026. |
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“John Nash’s contributions to economics,” (in Greek) in Game Theory: A Festschrift in Honor of John Nash, Constantina Kottaridi and Gregorios Siourounis, eds., Athens: Eurasia Publications, 2002, pp. 103-108. |
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“An experimental study of information mechanisms in the trust game: effects of observation and cheap talk” (with Juergen Bracht). (Updated April 2007.) |
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“Payoff levels, loss avoidance, and equilibrium selection in the Stag Hunt: an experimental study” (with Atsushi Iwasaki and Sobei H. Oda).” (Updated January 2007.) |
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“Experimental evidence of a sunk-cost paradox: a study of pricing behavior in Bertrand-Edgeworth duopoly” (with Steve Buchheit). (Updated April 2007. This paper used to be called “Sunk costs and firms’ pricing decisions in an experimental Bertrand-Edgeworth duopoly.) |
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“The effect of matching mechanism on learning in repeated 2x2 games” (with Atsushi Iwasaki and Sobei H. Oda). |
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“Reinforcement-based learning vs. Bayesian learning: a comparison” (with David Cooper). |
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“Thinking like a game theorist: comment” (with Nathaniel T. Wilcox). |
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“A test of learning models in repeated 2x2 games: information, matching mechanisms, and loss avoidance” (with Atsushi Iwasaki and Sobei H. Oda). |
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“Information cascades with endogenous signal precision.” |
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