Publications

• Can rank feedback avoid demoralization? A randomized controlled trial [with Dobrescu, Chen & Foster] Forthcoming Labour Economics [Downloadable]

• The power of knowing a woman is in charge: Lessons from a randomized experiment (2023) Management Science  [with Dobrescu & Shanker] [Downloadable]

• Relative performance feedback in education: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial (2021) Economic Journal 131:640 [with Dobrescu, Faravelli & Megalokonomou] [Downloadable]

• Consulting collusive experts (2020) Games and Economic Behavior 122: 290-317 [with Mookherjee & Tsumagari] [Downloadable]

• Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age (2020) Journal of the Economics of Ageing 17 [with Christelis & Dobrescu] [Downloadable]

• Financing smallholder agriculture: An experiment with agent-intermediated microloans in India (2017) Journal of Development Economics 127: 306-337 [with Maitra, Mitra, Mookherjee & Visaria] [Downloadable]

• A theory of interactions between microfinance and informal lenders (2016) Journal of Development Economics 121: 191–200 [with Mookherjee] [Downloadable]

• Legalize, tax, and deter: Optimal enforcement policies for corruptible officials (2016) Journal of Development Economics 118: 207–215 [with Burlando]  [Downloadable] [Additional Proofs]

• Collusion and the organisation of the firm (2015) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 7(3) [with Burlando] [Downloadable]

• What makes a critic tick? Connected authors and the determinants of book reviews (2013) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 96: 85-103 [with Dobrescu & Luca] [Downloadable] 

• Why aren't developed countries saving? (2012) European Economic Review 56: 1261-1275 [with Dobrescu & Kotlikoff] [Downloadable] 

Other work

• Social impact bonds: Theory and evidence (2016) Research in Experimental Economics 19 [with Wong, Ortmann, and Zhang] [Downloadable]

• Learning economics concepts through game-play: An experiment (2015) International Journal of Educational Research 69: 23-37 [with Dobrescu & Greiner] [Downloadable]

• Staying home or dining out? Social interactions and old-age consumption profiles, in Happiness and Relational Goods Conference Proceedings, University Ca' Foscari Venice (2010) [with Motta & Gui]

Working papers

• Cultural context in standardized tests [Dobrescu, Holden, Piccoli, Roberts & Walker] [Downloadable]

• (Step Up 3A) The role of verifiability in the education production function [with Dobrescu & Kazmierczak]

• Serious games: Seriously good at preparing students for clinical practice? A randomized control trial [with Dobrescu, Ooi, Coffey et al] 

• Fun in education [with Dobrescu, Holden & Wong] [Downloadable]

• Collusion, power and governance design [with Mookherjee & Tsumagari]

• Budget constrained consumers and pricing [with Ghosh] [Downloadable]

• Can self-reporting reduce corruption in law enforcement? [with Burlando] [Downloadable]

• Collusion and selective supervision [Downloadable]

Work in progress

• Step Up 2A) The role of fun in the education production function: A randomized controlled trial [with Dobrescu, French, Holden, Lim, Shanker & Walker]

• (Step Up 4A) Gender and leadership [with Dobrescu & Feld]

• (Step Up 5A) Wisdom of the crowds: Does it work in higher education? [with Dobrescu]

• The less is more: Willingness vs. ability to save [with Bateman, Motta, Newell, Shanker & Thorp]

• Prohibition, legalization and corruption [with Burlando]

• Ex-ante and ex-post corruption [Downloadable]

Chapters in books

• The predictive power of Big Data in education (forthcoming) in Mendolia, O'Brien, Yerokhin and Paloyo (eds): Critical Perspectives on Economics of Education and Education Policy. Routledge [with Dobrescu & Scriven]

• The impact of childhood health and cognition on portfolio choice (2011) in First Results Book SHARELIFE, Mannheim Research Institute for Economics of Aging [with Christelis and Dobrescu]

• Functionings, Capacities and Social Interactions (2006) in Economic Theory and Interpersonal Relationships, Il Mulino

Textbooks

• The Economic and Legal Principles of Business Decision Making, 1st ed., ebook (retrievable via www.unsw.edu.au) [with Dobrescu, French, Manwaring & Taylor]

• Principles of Economics (2016) 4th ed., eBook (retrievable via www.playconomics.com) [with Dobrescu & McWhinnie]

• Playconomics: Principles of Microeconomics (2015) 4th ed., eBook (retrievable via www.playconomics.com) [with Dobrescu, Faravelli & McWhinnie]