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Hi,  I'm James Fisher and I doodle in economics in my free time -- mostly in experiments and some theory.  I can be reached via email at jamescdfisher@gmail.com and I'm happy to chat about economics.  Hope you enjoy!

Publications:

• Designing Randomized Response Surveys to Support Honest Answers to Stigmatizing Questions (with Timothy Flannery).  Review of Economic Designs, 2023

• Existence of Stable Allocations in Matching Markets with Infinite Contracts: A Topological Approach, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 91 (2020), pp. 136-140

• Efficient Random Assignment with Cardinal and Ordinal Preferences (Online Appendix), Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 3 (2018), pp. 51-96

• Interacting Information Cascades: On the Movement of Conventions Between Groups, (with John Wooders) Economic Theory, 63 (2017), pp. 211-231

• Matching with Aggregate Externalities, (with Isa Hafalir) Mathematical Social Sciences, 81 (2016), pp. 1-7

Packages:

• Seemingly Unrelated  Count Regressions in Stata, (with Abbie Zhang and Joseph Terza).  2022. 

Working Papers:

• Interacting Cascades: An Experiment on Between-Group Information Spillovers, with John Wooders (slides, data and code 25+MB)

• Fuzzy Reciprocity

• Competition for an Imperfectly Informed Consumer, with Asaf Plan (online appendix)

• Matching with Continuous Bidirectional Investment

• Three-Sided Matching with Trilateral Investment

• Rivalry and Professional Network Formation: The Struggle for Access (Online Appendix)