Current Research – Published Work
Over the past several years I have engaged in a variety of research projects. Below is a partial list of published and unpublished work:
Personality and Choice
Personality and Choice in Risky and Ambiguous Environments: An Experimental Study (New Ocotber 2011)
Level-k Theory
Beliefs and Endogenous Cognitive Levels: An Experimental Study with Marina Agronov (Caltech, CESS), Elizabeth Potamites (Mathematica), and Chloe Tergiman (UBC, CESS), February 2011. (Under Revision)
Reciprocity
Intrinsic and Instrumental Reciprocity: An Experimental Study withLuis Cabral (IESE Business School) and Erkut Ozbay (Maryland), February 2011. (Under Revision)
Tournaments
Workaholics and Drop Outs in Organizations with Wieland Mueller (Tilburg), Journal of the European Economic Association 8(4), June 2010.
Search
Real Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market with Christopher Flinn (NYU) and Meta Brown (NY Fed), American Economic Review, 2011
Decision Making
Paying for Confidence: An Experimental Study of the Demand for Non-Instrumental Information” with Kfir Eliaz (Brown), Games and Economic Behavior, 2010.
Present-Bias, Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, and Fixed Costs with Jess Benhabib (NYU) and Albero Bisin (NYU, CESS), Games and Economic Behavior, 2010.
Imitation and Luck: An Experimental Study on Social Sampling with Theo Offerman (Amsterdam), Games and Economic Behavior, 2008.
Auctions
Understanding Overbidding: Using the Neural Circuitry of reward to Design Economic Auctions with Mauricio R. Delgado (Rutgers), Erkut Y. Ozbay (Maryland), and Elizabeth A. Phelps (NYU), Science, 2008.
Creating Competition Out of Thin Air: An Experimental Study of Right-to-Choose Auctions with Kfir Eliaz (NYU) and Theo Offerman (Amsterdam), Games and Economic Behavior, 2008.
Bank Runs
On The Severity of Bank Runs with Tanju Yorulmazer (NY Fed), Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2009.
Advice and Social learning
An Experimental Test of Advice and Social Learning with Boğaçhan Çelen (Columbia) and Shachar Kariv (Berkeley), Management Science, September 2010.
Talking Ourselves to Efficiency: Coordination in Inter-Generational Minimum Effort Games with Private, Almost Common and Common knowledge of Advice with Ananish Chaudhuri (Auckland) and Barry Sopher (Rutgers), The Economic Journal, January 2009.
Methodology
What’s So Informative About Choice? with Andrew Caplin (NYU, CESS), The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics, 2009.
On The Relationship of Economic Theory and Experiments, August 2009.
Learning
Convergence: An Experimental Study with Kyle Hyndman (Southern Methodist) and Erkut Y. Ozbay (Maryland), forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association, January 2010.
Belief Formation: An Experiment With Outside Observers with Kyle Hyndman (Southern Methodist), Erkut Y. Ozbay (Maryland), and Wold Ehrblatt (Symphony IRI Group), December 2010.
Markets
Other People’s Money: An Experimental Study of the Impact of the Competition for Funds with Marina Agranov (Caltech, CESS) and Alberto Bisin (NYU, CESS), November 2010. (Under Revision)
Language
Coarse Communication and Focal Points: An Experimental Study with Marina Agranov (Caltech, CESS), November 2010. (Under Revision)
An Experimental Study of Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Announcement Game with Marina Agranov (Caltech, CESS), July 2010. (Under Revision)
Current Work – In Progress
In addition to this work that has appeared in print, there is a set of projects that are currently under revisions.
Reciprocity
Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments with Jeffrey Carpenter (Middlebury) and Shachar Kariv (Berkeley), December 2010.
On Blame-freeness and Reciprocity: An Experimental Study with Mariana Blanco (Universidad del Rosario) and Boğaçhan Çelen (Columbia), April 2011.