Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Crime and the Legal System, Experimental IO
Curriculum Vita on request
Journal Articles:
"Arrest Avoidance: Law Enforcement and Price of Cocaine," 2009. Journal of Law and Economics, 52(1): 19-40.
"Tacit Collusion in Price-Setting Duopoly Markets: Experimental Evidence," (with Lisa R. Anderson and Charles A. Holt), 2010. Southern Economic Journal, 76(3): 577-591.
"Varying the Intensity of Competition in a Multiple Prize Rent Seeking Experiment," (with Lisa R. Anderson), 2010. Public Choice, 143(1): 237-254.
"Substance Abuse Treatment and Motor Vehicle Fatalities," (with Brian McManus), 2010. Southern Economic Journal, 76(4): 1032-1048.
"Judicial Dicrestion and Sentencing Behavior: Did the Feeney Amendment Reign in District Judges?" (with Monica Hartmann), 2010. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 7(2): 355-378.
"Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model" (with Lisa Anderson, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass, and Jack Soper), 2010. Perspectives on Economics Education Research, 6(1): 48-71.
"Persuasive and Informative Advertising: A Classroom Experiment" (with Jason P. Hulbert), 2011. Journal of Economic Education, 42(1): 51-59.
"Religious Participation and Risky Behaviors among Adolescents" (with Jennifer Mellor), 2011. Health Economics, 20(10): 1226-1240.
"Risk Aversion and Tacit Collusion in a Bertrand Duopoly Experiment" (with Lisa R. Anderson and Jason P. Hulbert), 2012. Review of Industrial Organization, 40(1): 37-50.
"Competition and Crowding-Out in the Market for Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment," (with Brian McManus and Andrew Cohen), 2013. International Economic Review, 54(1): 159-184.
"Accuracy of Information Maintained by U.S. Credit-Bureaus: Frequency of Errors and Effects on Consumers’ Credit Scores" (with L. Douglas Smith, Michael Staten, Thomas Eyssell, Maureen Karig, and Andrea Golden), 2013. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 47(3): 588-601.
"Economics at the FTC: Physician Acquisitions, Standard Essential Patents, and Accuracy of Credit Reporting" (with Julie A. Carlson, Leemore S. Dafny, Pauline M. Ippolito, and Brett W. Wendling), 2013. Review of Industrial Organization, 43(4): 303-326
"Determinants of Tacit Collusion in a Cournot Duopoly Experiment" (with Lisa R. Anderson and Jason P. Hulbert), 2015. Southern Economic Journal, 81(3): 633-652.
"Penalty Structures and Deterrence in a Two Stage Model: Experimental Evidence" (with Lisa R. Anderson, Gregory DeAngelo, Winand Emons, and Hannes Lang), 2017. Economic Inquiry, 55(4): 1833-1867.
"Behavioral Factors in Equity Allocation Decisions: A Large-Scale Experimental Study with Context" (with Lisa R. Anderson and Jason P. Hulbert), 2018. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 19(3): 334-348.
"A Rent Seeking Experiment with Leakage from the Contest Success Function" (with Lisa R. Anderson), 2020. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 87.
"An experimental Study of Strategic Voting and Accuracy of Verdicts with Sequential and Simultaneous Voting," with Lisa R. Anderson, Charles A. Holt, and Katri K. Sieberg, Games, 2022.
"Pay Every Subject or Pay Only Some?" (with Lisa R. Anderson and Patrick McAlvanah), 2023. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Official Reports:
"Report to Congress under Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003" (with Loren Smith and Peter Vander Nat), December 2012. Available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/02/130211factareport.pdf.
"Report to Congress under Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003" January 2015. Available at https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/section-319-fair-accurate-credit-transactions-act-2003-sixth-interim-final-report-federal-trade/150121factareport.pdf
Book Chapter:
"Factors that Facilitate Nash Behavior in Oligopoly Markets: A Survey of Recent Experimental Findings" (with Lisa R. Anderson and Jason P. Hulbert),in Progress in Economics Research, Volume 21, Thomas L. Wouters, ed. New York: Nova Publishers, 2011
“A Large-Scale Experimental Study of Risk Tolerance” (with Lisa R. Anderson and Jason P. Hulbert)
"Individual and Pair Behavior in a VCM Experiment" (with Lisa R. Anderson)
Data for “Sequential Voting and Strategy – An Experimental Test” (with Lisa R. Anderson, Charles Holt, and Katri Sieberg):
Lagged Variables (Stata .dta file)
Sequential Data (Excel file)
Simultaneous Jury Level (Stata .dta file)
Simultaneous Individual Level (Stata .dta file)
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