Research
My main research area is Applied Game Theory, which studies how individuals
make decisions in situations of strategic interdependence. I am currently
working on two broad areas. The first one focuses on the theoretical and
empirical analysis of individual behavior in high-stakes natural
experiments. Along with my co-authors, we have identified a variety of
television game shows where strategic behavior is relevant. My
second broad area of interest is the study of auctions and competitive
bidding. On September 20, 1999, I was a guest on Odyssey, a public
radio program produced by
Below you will find links to the majority of my research papers.
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What Determines a Nice Auction Page?
- with Gabriella a. Bucci.
(PDF)
Group Diversity and Salience: A Natural Experiment from a Television Game Show.
- with Gabriella Bucci. Journal of Socio-Economics 39, 2010, pp. 306-315.
(PDF)
On the Competitive Structure in Professional Boxing.
Handbook
on the Economics of Sport. Edwar Elgar,
edited by Wladimir Andreff
and Stefan Szymanski, 2006.
(E-mail me for a copy).
Jump Bidding Strategies in Internet Auctions.
- with Robert F. Easley. Management Science 50, 2004, pp. 1407-1419.
(PDF)
Assessing Individual Risk-Attitudes Using Field Data from Lottery Games.
- with Connel Fullenkamp and Robert Battalio. The Review of Economics and Statistics 85,
2003, pp. 218-225.
(PDF)
To Spin or Not to Spin? Natural and Laboratory Experiments from "The Price is Right."
- with Timothy
Cason. The Economic Journal 112, 2002, pp. 170-195.
(PDF)
Analyzing Sequential Game Equilibrium: A Natural Experiment from "The Price is Right," with Jeff Bacidore, Robert Battalio, and Todd Milburn
(Abstract)
The Economics
of Professional Boxing Contracts
- Journal of Sports Economics I, 2000, pp.363-384.
(PDF)
Multiple Unit Auctions
with Strategic Price-Quantity Decisions
- Economic Theory 13, 1999, pp. 247-260.
(PDF)
Some Evidence on
Strategic Quantity Reduction in Multiple Unit Auctions
- Economics Letters 55,1997, pp. 209-213.
(PDF)
On
Strategic Quantity Bidding in Multiple Unit Auctions
- Journal of Industrial Economics XLV, 1997, pp. 207-217.
(PDF)
Strategic Trading in
a Two-Sided Foreign Exchange Auction
- with Linda S. Goldberg, Journal of International Economics 42, 1997,
pp. 299-326.
(PDF)
Immigrant-Native
Wage Differentials and Immigration Reform
- with Gabriella A. Bucci, Review of Development Economics 1, 1997 pp.
305-323.
- also appearing in The Economics of Immigration,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996.
On Financing
the Internal Enforcement of Illegal Immigration Policies
- with Gabriella A. Bucci, Journal of
Population Economics 9, 1996, pp. 65-81.
Optimal Decisions in Foreign Exchange Bidding Markets, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 16, 1995, pp. 1-6.
"Explaining Order Imbalances in Russia's Tâtonnement Foreign Exchange Auction," with Linda S. Goldberg, in International Trade Issues of the Russian Federation, edited by János Gács and Merton J. Peck, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxemburg, 1995.
Revenue-Equivalence and Bidding Behavior in a Multi-Unit Auction Market: An Empirical Analysis,
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXV, 1993, pp. 302-314.
(PDF)
"Foreign Exchange Auctions," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, Macmillan Press Reference Books, 1992.
"Auction Rings," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, Macmillan Press Reference Books, 1992.
Please e-mail me if you would like hard copies of any of these
papers