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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2009 Working Papers
09-01Towards an Improved Methodology in Analyzing Corruption: Insights from Citizen Responses to Corrupt Practices across Countries
[abstract] [paper]09-02Cooperation and Status in Organizations
[paper]09-03Competition as a Team Incentive: Comparing Within- and Between-Team Competition
[paper]09-04Blaming the Messenger: Notes on the Current State of Experimental Economics (forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
[paper]09-05Motives for Giving: A Reanalysis of Two Classic Public Goods Experiments (forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal)
[paper]09-06One Bad Apple: Uncertainty and Heterogeneity in Public Good Provision
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2008 Working Papers
08-01The Gender Gap: Using the Lab as a Window on the Market (published in Frontiers in the Economics of Gender, edited by Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina. Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy, 2008, pp. 223-242.)
[paper]08-02Face Value
(July, 2008)
[paper]08-03Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field
[paper]08-04Social Norms of Sharing in High School: Teen Student Giving in the Dictator Game
(September, 2009)
[paper]08-05Risk Aversion in High School Students: Games and Surveys
08-06Eliciting Risk Preferences: When is Simple Better?
(December, 2008)
[paper]08-07Encouraging Giving: Subsidies in the Field
[paper]08-08Giving to Government: Voluntary Taxation in the Lab
[paper]08-09”I” Give, but “We” Give More: The Impact of Identity and the Mere Social Information Effect on Donation Behavior
[paper]08-10Gender Differences in Preferences
(forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature)
[paper]08-11Public Goods Experiments
(forthcoming in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition.
Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume, eds. Palgrave Macmillan)
[paper]08-12Behavioral and Brain Measures of Risk Taking
(forthcoming in Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape, Wolfe and Owens (eds.) Baylor University Press)
[paper]08-13Special Issue Introduction
(published in Manufacturing Service and Operations Management in 2008)
[paper]08-14Gendered Giving: The Influence of Social Norms on the Donation Behavior of Men and Women
[paper]08-15How to Manage and Overconfident Newsvendor
[paper] [appendix]08-16The Science of Experimental Economics
[paper]08-17Bodies of Knowledge for Behavioral Operations Management
[paper]08-18The Moderating Effect of Goal Specificity on Escalation of Commitment in Entrepreneurial Firm Exit
[paper]08-19Showing versus Telling: The Impact of Different Types of Information on the Weight of Advice
[paper]08-20Somebody’s Watching: The Impact of Being Observed on Cooperation in a Field Setting
[paper] [appendix]08-21Limits of Social Influence on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Field Experiments
[paper]08-22Poker Superstars: Skill or Luck?
(published in CHANCE Magazine Volume 21, Number 4 December, 2008 )
[paper]08-23Review of: Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field Edited by Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer 2007, MIT Press
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2007 Working Papers
07-01Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurricane Katrina (forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal October 2007)
[abstract] [paper]07-02Explaining the Relationship between Actions and Beliefs: Projection vs. Reaction
[abstract] [paper]07-03Trust and Gender: An Examination of Behavior, Biases, and Beliefs in the Investment Game (published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization in 2008)
[abstract] [paper]07-04Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock
[abstract] [paper]07-05Do Pre-Acquisition Alliances Help in Post-Acquisition Coordination: An Experimental Approach
[abstract] [paper]07-06Social Preferences and Moral Biases
(forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
[abstract] [paper]07-07Step-Return versus Net Reward in the Voluntary Provision of a Threshold Public Good: An Adversarial Collaboration (published in Public Choice in 2008)
[abstract] [paper]07-08Field Experiments in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Influence on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods (forthcoming in Economic Journal)
[abstract] [paper]07-09Excludability and Contribution: A Laboratory Study in Team Production
[abstract] [paper]07-10An Experimental Analysis of Conditional Cooperation
[abstract] [paper]07-11Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Relationship between Norms, Social Information and Subsequent Charitable Giving (forthcomig in Nonprofit Management and Leadership)
[abstract] [paper]07-12Investment Decisions and Emissions Reductions: Results from Experiments in Emissions Trading
[abstract] [paper]07-13The Impact of Information from Similar or Different Advisors on Judgment
(forthcoming in Organziational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
[abstract] [paper]07-14The Impact of Downward Social Information on Contribution Decisions
(published in Experimental Economics in 2008)
[abstract] [paper]07-15Decision Making in Strategic Alliances: An Experimental Investigation
(forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal)
[abstract] [paper]07-16Groups Work for Women: Gender and Group Identity in the Provision of Public Goods (published in The Negotiation Journal in 2008)
[abstract] [paper]07-17Punitiveness as an Explanation of the WTA-WTP Discrepancy in Contingent Valuation: Theory and Evidence
[abstract] [paper]07-18The Use of Strategic Ignorance in Dictator Games when Payoffs are Not-Transparent
[paper]07-19Economic Games for Social Scientists (published in Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, edited by Murray Webster & Jane Sell, pp.497-515. Oxford,UK:Elsevier,2007)
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2006 Working Papers
06-01Are There Benefits from Engaging in an Alliance with a Firm Prior to its Acquisition?
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2003 Working Papers
03-01Analysis of Public Goods Experiments Using Dynamic Panel Regression Models
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