Working Papers
The faculty and students at the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science are working on a wide range of research areas. Some of their recent research and current working Papers are listed below and are available in PDF format. Please contact the authors directly or Beth Pickett for further information.
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2008 Working Papers
Motives for Giving: A Reanalysis of Two Classic Public Goods Experiments (May, 2008)
[paper]Face Value (July, 2008)
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2007 Working Papers
Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurricane Katrina (Forthcoming Southern Economic Journal October 2007)
[abstract] [paper]Explaining the Relationship between Actions and Beliefs: Projection vs. Reaction
[abstract] [paper]Trust and Gender: An Examination of Behavior, Biases, and Beliefs in the Investment Game
[abstract] [paper]Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock
[abstract] [paper]Do Pre-Acquisition Alliances Help in Post-Acquisition Coordination: An Experimental Approach
[abstract] [paper]Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases
[abstract] [paper]Step-Return versus Net Reward in the Voluntary Provision of a Threshold Public Good: An Adversarial Collaboration
[abstract] [paper]Field Experiments in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Influence on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
[abstract] [paper]Excludability and Contribution: A Laboratory Study in Team Production
[abstract] [paper]An Experimental Analysis of Conditional Cooperation
[abstract] [paper]Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Relationship between Norms, Social Information and Subsequent Charitable Giving
[abstract] [paper]Investment Decisions and Emissions Reductions: Results from Experiments in Emissions Trading
[abstract] [paper]The Impact of Information from Similar or Different Advisors on Judgment
[abstract] [paper]The Impact of Downward Social Information on Contribution Decisions
[abstract] [paper]Decision Making in Strategic Alliances: An Experimental Investigation
[abstract] [paper]Groups Work for Women: Gender and Group Identity in the Provision of Public Goods
[abstract] [paper]Punitiveness as an Explanation of the WTA-WTP Discrepancy in Contingent Valuation: Theory and Evidence
[abstract] [paper]The Use of Strategic Ignorance in Dictator Games when Payoffs are Not-Transparent
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