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Working Papers:

  • “Cooperation through Coordination in Two Stages,” (with Todd Kaplan and Ze'ev Shtudiner) second revise-and-resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018.[download]

  • “Tat will tell: Tattoos and time preferences,” (with Anne Wilson) 2018.[download]

  • “Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence,” (with Ya'akov Bayer, Ze'ev Shtudiner and Ro'i Zultan) 2018.[download]

  • "Time preferences of older people with mild cognitive impairment,” (with Ya'akov Bayer, Ro’i Zultan and Tzvi Dwolatzky) 2018.[download]

Publications in Refereed Journals:

Professor

Department of Economics

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Canada

Email: bruffle@wlu.ca

Website at WLU

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Selective Media Coverage

Have a tattoo? Odds are you're more impulsive and short-sighted, CBC Radio

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful, The Economist

Discrimination in Hiring, Der Spiegel

Resume Tip: Leave Your Photo Off, Pretty Woman, Huffington Post

Dusting off God, Chronicle of Higher Education

Explaining Religion, The Economist

Honesty and Intelligence, Washington Post

Gifts about giving of time and money, Woolwich Observer

    • “Clever Enough to Tell the Truth,” (with Yossef Tobol) Experimental Economics, 20:1, 2017, 130–155. [download]

    • "First-Mover Advantage in Two-Sided Competitions: An Experimental Comparison of Role Assignment Rules,” (with Oscar Volij) International Journal of Game Theory, 45:4, 2016, 933–970. [download]

    • “The Impact of Including, Adding and Subtracting a Tax on Demand,” (with Naomi Feldman) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7:1, 2015, 95–118. [download]

    • “Are Good-Looking People more Employable?” (with Ze'ev Shtudiner) Management Science, 61:8, 2015, 1760–1776.[download]

    • “Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the temporal separation between decisions and payoffs,” (with Yossef Tobol) European Economic Review, 65, 2015, 126-135.[download]

    • “When do large buyers pay less? Experimental evidence,” Journal of Industrial Economics, 61:1, 2013, 108-137.[download]

    • “Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment,” (with Tomer Blumkin and Yosef Ganun) European Economic Review, 56, 2012, 1200-1219. [download]

    • “Which Way to Cooperate?” (with Todd Kaplan) Economic Journal, 2012, 122, 1042-1068.[download]

    • “In search of welfare-improving gifts,” (with Todd Kaplan) European Economic Review, 53, 2009, 445-460.[download]

    • “Do Buyer-Size Discounts Depend on the Curvature of the Surplus Function? Experimental Tests of Bargaining Models,” (with Hans-Theo Normann and Christopher Snyder) RAND Journal of Economics, 38:3, 2007, 747-767.[download]

  • “Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation,”(with Richard Sosis) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Contributions), 2007, Article 18.[download]

    • “99: Are Retailers Best Responding to Rational Consumers? Experimental Evidence,” (with Ze'ev Shtudiner) Managerial and Decision Economics, 27:6, 2006, 459–475. [download]

    • “Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents,”(with Richard Sosis) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60:2, 2006, 147–163. [download]

  • “Tax and Subsidy Incidence Equivalence Theories: Experimental Evidence from Competitive Markets,” Journal of Public Economics, 89:8, 2005, 1519–1542.[download]

  • “Reply: Religious Ritual and Cooperation,” (with Richard Sosis) Current Anthropology, 45:4, 2004, 529–530. [download]

  • “The Self-Serving Bias and Beliefs about Rationality,”(with Todd Kaplan) Economic Inquiry, 42:2, 2004, 237–246. [download]

  • “Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim,” (with Richard Sosis) Current Anthropology, 44:5, 2004, 713–722. [download]

  • “Competitive Equilibrium and Classroom Pit Markets,” Journal of Economic Education, 34:2, 2003, 123–137. [download]

  • “Reasonable Reasons for Waiting,”(with Orit Tykocinski) Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 16, 2003, 1–11. [download]

  • “Some Factors Affecting Demand Withholding in Posted-Offer Markets,” Economic Theory, 16:3, 2000, 529–544. [download]

  • “The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment,”(with Orit Tykocinski) American Economic Review, 90:1, 2000, 319–324. [download]

  • “Gift Giving with Emotions,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39:4, 1999, 399–420. [download]

  • “More is Better, But Fair is Fair: Tipping in Dictator and Ultimatum Games,” Games and Economic Behavior, 23, 1998, 247–265. [download]

  • “Self-Serving Bias [Comment],”(with Todd Kaplan) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12:2, 1998, 243–244. [download]