Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Game Theory
Industrial Organization
Public Economics
Labor Economics
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"The Impact of Taxes and Wasteful Government Spending on Giving," with Neslihan Uler, Experimental Economics, forthcoming. (Media: Wall Street Journal) (Video: SPI Conference)
“Theories of Conflict and War,” with Erik Kimbrough, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
“War and Conflict in Economics: Theories, Applications, and Recent Trends,” with Erik Kimbrough and Kevin Laughren, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
“Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experiment,” with Tim Cason and Will Masters, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 175, 314-327.
“The Tug-of-War in the Laboratory,” with Cary Deck, European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 1-12.
“Adding Tournament to Tournament: Combining Between-Team and Within-Team Incentives,” with Michael Majerczyk and Yu Tian, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 1-11.
“The Attack and Defense Games,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019, 42, 41-43.
“New Hampshire Effect: Behavior in Sequential and Simultaneous Multi-Battle Contests,” with Shakun Mago, Experimental Economics, 2019, 22, 325-349.
“The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks,” with Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson, Public Choice, 2019, 179, 175-194.
“Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption,” with David Clingingsmith, Experimental Economics, 2018, 21, 877-904. (Media: The National)
"Behavior in Group Contests: A Review of Experimental Research," Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32, 683-704.
"Trust, Reciprocity and Rules," with Tom Rietz, Eric Schniter and Tim Shields, Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56, 1526-1542.
“Loss Aversion and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff,” with Jared Rubin and Anya Samek, Experimental Economics, 2018, 21, 292-315.
“Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study,” with Shakun Mago, Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84, 407-425.
“Economics and Psychology of Contests,” with Changxia Ke and Lionel Page, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 83-85.
“Asymmetric and Endogenous Within-Group Communication in Competitive Coordination Games,” with Tim Cason and Jingjing Zhang, Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 946-972.
“A Study of the Triggers of Conflict and Emotional Reactions,” with Mike Caldara, Mike McBride and Matt McCarter, Games, 2017, 8(21), 1-12.
“Deception and Reception: The Behavior of Information Providers and Users,” with Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 137, 445-456.
“Selective Recognition: How to Recognize Donors to Increase Charitable Giving,” with Anya Samek, Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55, 1489-1496. (Media: The Chronicle of Philanthropy) (Video: SPI Conference)
“The Pros and Cons of Workplace Tournaments,” IZA World of Labor, 2016, 302, 1-10.
“Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks,” with Jared Rubin, Management Science, 2016, 62, 985-999.
“The Paradox of Misaligned Profiling: Theory and Experimental Evidence,” with Charlie Holt, Andrew Kydd and Laura Razzolini, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2016, 60, 482-500.
“Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests,” with Shakun Mago and Anya Samek, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2016, 60, 459-481.
“When Identifying Contributors is Costly: An Experiment on Public Goods,” with Anya Samek, Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82, 801-808.
“The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning,” with Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen and David Ong, Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 226-229. (Media: Phys.org and Psych Central)
“A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests,All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments,” with Emmanuel Dechenaux and Dan Kovenock, Experimental Economics, 2015, 18, 609-669.
“Conflicted Emotions Following Trust-Based Interaction,” with Eric Schniter and Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 51, 48-65.
“Endowment Origin, Demographic Effects and Individual Preferences in Contests,” with Curtis Price, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24, 597-619.
“Strategically Equivalent Contests,” with Subhasish Chowdhury, Theory and Decision, 2015, 78, 587-601.
“Commitment Problems in Conflict Resolution,” with Jared Rubin, Erik Kimbrough and Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 33-45.
“Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas,” with Matt McCarter and Anya Samak, Group and Organization Management, 2014, 39, 744-771.
“Predictable and Predictive Emotions: Explaining Cheap Signals and Trust Re-Extension,” with Eric Schniter, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014, 8, 1-18.
“Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods,” with Anya Samek, Experimental Economics, 2014, 17, 673-690.
“Why Can’t We Be Friends? Entitlements and the Costs of Conflict,” with Erik Kimbrough, Journal of Peace Research, 2014, 51, 487-500.
“Overbidding and Overspreading in Rent-Seeking Experiments: Cost Structure and Prize Allocation Rules,” with Subhasish Chowdhury and Ted Turocy, Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 224-238.
“Three-Player Trust Game with Insider Communication,” with Jingjing Zhang, Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52, 576-591.
“When Parity Promotes Peace: Resolving Conflict Between Asymmetric Agents,” with Erik Kimbrough and Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 96-108.
“Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Sender-Receiver Games,” with Tim Shields, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 268-277.
“Transparency, Efficiency and the Distribution of Economic Welfare in Pass-Through Investment Trust Games,” with Tom Rietz, Tim Shields and Vernon Smith, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 257-267.
“Building and Rebuilding Trust with Promises and Apologies,” with Eric Schniter and Daniel Sznycer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 242-256.
“Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence," with David Schmidt, Robert Shupp and James Walker, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 257-267.
“Top Guns May Not Fire: Best-Shot Group Contests with Group-Specific Public Good Prizes,” with Subhasish Chowdhury and Dongryul Lee, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 94-103.
“Overbidding and Heterogeneous Behavior in Contest Experiments,” Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27, 491-514. (Video: IFREE seminar)
“Best-of-Three Contest Experiments: Strategic Versus Psychological Momentum,” with Shakun Mago and Andrew Yates, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013, 31, 287-296.
“Side-Payments and the Costs of Conflict,” with Erik Kimbrough, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013, 31, 278-286.
“An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games,” with Subhasish Chowdhury and Dan Kovenock, Economic Theory, 2013, 52, 833-861.
“Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Games,” with Anya Savikhin, Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51, 1311-1323.
“You Can’t Put Old Wine in New Bottles: The Effect of Newcomers on Coordination in Groups,” with Matt McCarter, PLOS ONE, 2013, 8, 1-9. (Media coverage: Science Daily)
“Fight or Flight? Defending Against Sequential Attacks in the Game of Siege,” with Cary Deck, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012, 56, 1069-1088.
“Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games,” with Tim Cason and Jingjing Zhang, Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 76, 26-43.
“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.
“Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 68, 731-747.
“Can Groups Solve the Problem of Over-Bidding in Contests?” with Jingjing Zhang, Social Choice and Welfare, 2010, 35, 175-197.
INVITED PUBLICATIONS & BOOK CHAPTERS
“Experimental Research on Contests,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, Eds., 2019, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-8.
“When Income Depends on Performance and Luck: The Effects of Culture and Information on Giving,” with Pedro Rey-Biel and Neslihan Uler, Research in Experimental Economics, Gunnthorsdottir, A., Norton, D., Caprar, D.V., Eds., forthcoming. (Media: Nada es Gratis)
“The Impact of the Reformation on the Economic Development of Western Europe,” with Vernon Smith, The Reformation: European Success and a Chance for Ukraine, Sheremeta, R.M., Romanenko, O., Eds., 2017, Kiev: Summit, pp. 13-33.
“Behavioral Dimensions of Contests,” Companion to Political Economy of Rent Seeking, Congleton, R.D., Hillman, A.L., Eds., 2015, London: Edward Elgar, pp. 150-164.
“Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups,” Korean Economic Review, 2011, 27, 5-32.
“Essays on Experimental Investigation of Lottery Contests,” ETD Collection for Purdue University, 2009, 1-197.
“Designing the Optimal Housing Market in Ivano-Frankivsk,” with Mykola Danylyuk, Problems of Regional Economic Development, Tkachyk, I.G., ed., 2007, Ivano-Frankivsk: Precarpathian Press, pp. 197-207.
BOOKS
“The Reformation: European Success and a Chance for Ukraine,” with Olga Romanenko, Kiev: Summit, 2017.
WORKING PAPERS
Most of my working papers can be found at: