INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENTS - In the paper, “Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games,” forthcoming at Games and Economic Behavior, we provide evidence that communication can sometimes reduce efficiency in coordination games, which is in sharp contrast with many previous experiments, where communication always enhances efficiency and often leads to socially optimal outcomes.
- We are almost done with the survey paper "A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments," where we review more than 200 experimental papers on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments. Let me know if you want to receive a preliminary version of the paper.
- This is the first experiment on contests, "Overdissipation and Convergence in Rent-Seeking Experiments: Cost Structure and Prize Allocation Rules," where we find a treatment in which almost all subjects' behavior is very close to Nash.
- I definitely did not expect for gender and religiosity to have stronger than treatment effects: “Endowment Origin, Demographic Effects and Individual Preferences in Contests.”
- I gave seminars at UCSD on April 11th, UT Dallas on April 2nd, and TCU on March 30th.
- We have finished a new paper, “Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study,” on the simultaneous and sequential (non-constant-sum) Colonel Blotto games. The results are very different from what we have found in the previously published papers on constant-sum Colonel Blotto games.
- The following paper provides a unified framework to compare three canonical contests: “Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experiment.”
- The paper studying “Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Games” is forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
- The paper studying conflict resolution through side-payments, “Side-Payments and the Costs of Conflict,” is forthcoming in the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
- We have finished the paper which tests the barebones canonical tournament model of Lazear and Rosen (1981): “Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure.”
- In “(Bad) Luck or (Lack of) Effort?: Comparing Social Sharing Norms between US and Europe” we compare the determinants of giving between Spanish and the US subjects, and study the role of luck and effort in individual giving. The paper was recently quoted by Nada es Gratis.
- The paper, “Trust, Reciprocity and Rules,” studying the efficacy of rules using the trust game was recently quoted by http://www.newswise.com/.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS - “Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games,” with Tim Cason and Jingjing Zhang, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.
- “Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Games,” with Anya Savikhin, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
- “Side-Payments and the Costs of Conflict,” with Erik Kimbrough, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
- “An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games,”
with Subhasish Chowdhury and Dan Kovenock, Economic Theory, forthcoming.
- “Fight or Flight? Defending Against Sequential Attacks in the Game of Siege,” with Cary Deck, Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming.
- “Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games,” with Tim
Cason and Anya Savikhin, European Economic Review,
2012, 56, 233-245.
- “Multiple Equilibria in Tullock Contests,” with Subhasish Chowdhury, Economics Letters, 2011, 112, 216-219.
- “Endowment Effects in Contests,” with Curtis R. Price, Economics Letters, 2011, 111,217–219.
- “A Generalized Tullock Contest,” with Subhasish Chowdhury, Public Choice, 2011, 147, 413–420.
- “Contest Design: An Experimental Investigation,” Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49, 573–590.
- “Expenditures and Information Disclosure in Two-Stage Political Contests,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2010, 54, 771–798.
- “Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study,” with Tim Cason and Will Masters, Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94, 604–611.
- “Can Groups Solve the Problem of Over-Bidding in Contests?” with Jingjing Zhang, Social Choice and Welfare, 2010, 35, 175–97.
- “Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 68, 731–747.
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