Publications

Cartwright, A & Cartwright, E. and Edun, E. S. (2023). Cascading information on best practice: Cyber security risk management in UK micro and small businesses and the role of IT companies. Computers and Security. [paper]

Cartwright, E. and Xue, L., 2023. Truth-telling with a smartphone: The effect of communication media in strategic interactions. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, 2, p.1120697.  [paper]

Mott, G., Turner, S., Nurse, J.R., MacColl, J., Sullivan, J., Cartwright, A. and Cartwright, E. (2023). Between a rock and a hard (ening) place: Cyber insurance in the ransomware era. Computers & Security, 128, p.103162. [paper]

Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., MacColl, J., Mott, G., Turner, S., Sullivan, J. and Nurse, J.R., (2023). How cyber insurance influences the ransomware payment decision: theory and evidence. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 48(2), pp.300-331. [link]

Cartwright, A. & Cartwright, E. (2023). The Economics of ransomware attacks on integrated supply chain networks. Digital Threats: Research and Practice. [paper

Bhudia, A., Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., Hernandez-Castro, J., & Hurley-Smith, D. (2023). Identifying Incentives for Extortion in Proof of Stake Consensus Protocols. In The International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (pp. 109-118). Springer, Cham. [paper]

Cartwright, E., and Thompson, A. (2022). Using Dictator Game Experiments to Learn About Charitable Giving. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, (available online). [link]

Cartwright, E. and Cartwright, A. (2022) ‘Behavioural public policy’, in Greve, B. (Ed.) Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States, De Gruyter. [link]

Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., Xue, L., and Hernandez-Castro, J. (2022) ‘An investigation of individual willingness to pay ransomware’, Journal of Financial Crime, (available online). [link]

Bhudia, A., Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., Hernandez-Castro, J., & Hurley-Smith, D. (2022). Extortion of a Staking Pool in a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. [link]

Cartwright, E. and Z. Mirza (2021) 'Charitable giving when donors are constrained to give a minimum amount', Oxford Economic Papers. [link]

Cartwright, E. and M. Wooders (2020) 'Own experience bias in evaluating the efforts of others,' Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 173: 164-178. [link, data]

Cartwright, E., L. Xue and C. Brown (2020) 'Are people willing to tell Pareto white lies? A review and new experimental evidence', Games 12. [paper]

Hernandez-Castro, J., E. Cartwright and A. Cartwright (2020) 'An economic analysis of ransomware and its economic consequences', Royal Society Open Science 7: 190023. [paper, data]

Cartwright, E., L. Xue and A. Stepanova (2019) 'Impulse balance and framing effects in threshold public good games', Journal of Public Economic Theory 21: 903-922. [paper, data]

Cartwright, E. (2019) 'A survey of belief-based guilt aversion in trust and dictator games' Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 167: 430-444. [link]

Cartwright, E., J. Hernandez Castro and A. Cartwright (2019) To pay or not: game theoretic models of ransomware. Journal of Cybersecurity. [paper]

Cartwright, A., E. Cartwright and L. Xue (2019) 'Investing in prevention or paying for recovery - attitudes to cyber risk', GameSec2019, LNCS 11836. [link, data]

Cartwright, E. and A. Ramalingam (2019) 'Framing effects in public good games: Choices or externalities', Economics Letters 179: 42-45. [link, data]

Cartwright, E. (2019) 'Guilt aversion and reciprocity in the performance enhancing drug game', Journal of Sports Economics, 20: 335-355. [link]

Cartwright, A. and E. Cartwright (2019) 'Ransomware and reputation', Games (MDPI), 10: 26. [paper]

Cartwright, E. (2018) 'The optimal strategy in the minimum effort game', Games (MDPI), 9: 42. [link]

Cartwright, E. and T. Singh (2018) 'Observation and contagion effects in cooperation: An experimental investigation', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 74, 151-160. [paper, link, data]

Cartwright, E. and A. Stepanova (2017) 'Efficiency in a forced contribution threshold public good game', International Journal of Game Theory, 46: 1163-1191. [paper, data]

Cartwright, E. (2016) 'A comment on framing effects in linear public good games', Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2: 73-84. [paper]

Alberti, F. and E. Cartwright (2016) 'Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods', Public Choice, 166: 205-233. [link]

Cartwright, E. and A. Stepanova (2015) 'The consequences of a refund in threshold public good games', Economics Letters 134: 29-33. [link]

Cartwright, E. and F. Alberti (2015) 'Does the endowment of contributors make a difference in threshold public good games', Finanz Archiv 71: 216-239. [link]

Cartwright, E. (2015) 'Strategic delay and information cascades', Journal of Economics 114: 63-74. [link]

Cartwright E. (2014) 'Imitation and coordination in small world networks', Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management 21: 71-90. [link]

Cartwright, E., and M. Wooders (2014) 'Correlated equilibrium, conformity and stereotyping in social groups', Journal of Public Economic Theory 16: 743-766.

Cartwright, E. and M. L.C.Menezes (2014) 'Cheating to win: Dishonesty and the intensity of competition', Economics Letters 122: 55-58.

Cartwright, E. and D. Lovett (2014) 'Conditional cooperation and the marginal per-capita return in public good games', Games 5: 234-256. [ data]

Cartwright, E. and T. Singh (2013) 'Social capital, the culture of trust, and economic development', in Christiansen, B. and M. Basilgan (Eds.) Economic Behavior, Game Theory, and Technology in Emerging Markets, IGI Global. [info]

Cartwright, E. and A. Patel (2013) 'How category reporting can improve fundraising', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 87: 73-90.

Cartwright, E., J. Gillet and M. van Vugt (2013) 'Leadership by example in a weak-link game' Economic Inquiry 51: 2028-2043.

Cartwright, E. and A. Stepanova (2012) 'What do Students Learn from a Classroom Experiment: Not much, Unless they Write a Report on it', Journal of Economic Education 43: 48-57.

Patel, A. and E. Cartwright (2012) 'Naïve beliefs and the multiplicity of social norms', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 168: 280-289.

Gillet, J., E. Cartwright and M. van Vugt (2011) 'Selfish or servant leadership: Evolutionary predictions on leadership personalities in coordination games', Personality and Individual Differences, 51: 231-236.

Cartwright, E. and A. Patel (2010) 'Public goods, social norms, and naive beliefs', Journal of Public Economic Theory 12: 199-223.

Cartwright, E. and A. Patel (2010) 'Imitation and the incentive to contribute early in a sequential public good game', Journal of Public Economic Theory 12: 691-708.

Cartwright, E. (2009) 'Social norms: Does it matter whether agents are rational or boundedly rational?' Journal of Socio-Economics 38: 403-410.

Cartwright, E. and M. Wooders (2009) 'On equilibrium in pure strategies in games with many players', International Journal of Game Theory 38: 137-153. 

Cartwright, E. and M. Wooders (2009) 'On purification of equilibrium in Bayesian games and expost Nash equilibrium', International Journal of Game Theory 38: 127-136.

Cartwright, E. (2009) 'Conformity and out of equilibrium beliefs', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70: 164-185. 

Cartwright, E. (2007) 'Imitation, Coordination and the Emergence of Nash Equilibrium Play', International Journal of Game Theory, 36: 119-136.

Cartwright, E. (2007) 'Contagion and the Emergence of Convention in Small Worlds', International Game Theory Review 9: 689-704.

Wooders, M, E. Cartwright and R. Selten (2006) 'Behavioural Conformity in Games with Many Players', Games and Economic Behavior 57: 347-360.

Cartwright, E., J. Conley and M. Wooders (2006) 'The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies', in The Tiebout Model at 50: Essays in Public Economics in honor of Wallace Oates, W. A. Fischel (Ed).

Cartwright, E. (2004) 'The Stability of Conventions: Random and Lattice Matching Networks Compared', Economics Letters 85: 47-51.

Cartwright, E. and M. Wooders (2001) 'On the Theory of Equalising Differences; Increasing Abundances of Workers May Increase Their Earnings', Economics Bulletin 4: 1-10. [pdf]