SELECTED WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
Listening to the opinions of others: attention costs and asymmetric attention patterns (with Fabrizio Adriani).
Learning from others? Rigidity, open mindedness and the role of coordination (with Fabrizio Adriani and David Rojo Arjona).
Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? Evidence from the lab (with Abigail Barr and Anna Hochleitner).
Penalties, rewards and prosocial behavior: measuring net social esteem (with Angela Jiang-Wang and Daniele Nosenzo).
Updating the social norm: the case of hate crime after the Brexit referendum (with Facundo Albornoz, Jake Bradley, Jesus Rodriguez and Devesh Rustagi). New draft coming soon. Watch my video interview on this paper here and an animation summary of the paper's main result here.
Strategic behavior with tight loose and polarized norms (with Eugen Dimant, Michele Gelfand and Anna Hochleitner) Management Science, May 30 (2024).
Law and norms: empirical evidence (with Tom Lane and Daniele Nosenzo). American Economic Review, 113 (2023).
It’s not a lie if you believe the norm does not apply: conditional norm-following with strategic beliefs (with Cristina Bicchieri and Eugen Dimant). Games and Economic Behavior, 138 (2023).
Gender effects in the battle of the sexes: a tale of two countries (with Fabrizio Adriani and Monika Pompeo). Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 197 (2022).
Optimal similarity judgements in intertemporal choice (and beyond) (with Fabrizio Adriani). Journal of Economic Theory 190 (2020).
A theory of esteem based peer pressure (with Fabrizio Adriani). Games and Economic Behavior, 115 (2019).
The signaling value of punishing norm-breakers and rewarding norm-followers (with Fabrizio Adriani) Games 9 (4) (2018) (special issue on Social Norms and Games).
Teaching by example and induced beliefs in a model of cultural transmission (with Fabrizio Adriani and Jesse Matheson). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145 (2018).
Signaling about norms: socialization under strategic uncertainty (with Fabrizio Adriani). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120 (2018).
The costs and benefits of coordinating with a different group (with Paul Grout and Sebastien Mitraille). Journal of Economic Theory 160 (2015).
Trust, trustworthiness and the consensus effect: an evolutionary approach (with Fabrizio Adriani). European Economic Review 77 (2015).
How do financial intermediaries create value in security issues? (with Luca Deidda and Fabrizio Adriani). Review of Finance 18(5) (2014).
The role of agent's outside options in principal-agent relationships (with Imran Rasul). Games and Economic Behavior 68(2) (2010).
Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory (with Fabrizio Adriani). Journal of Public Economics 93(11/12) (2009).
Market segmentation with nonlinear pricing. Journal of Industrial Economics 59(1) (2011).
[An earlier version of this paper was awarded the Young Economist Essay Prize at the Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, EARIE.]
Centralized or decentralized information: which is better for providing incentives? Economic Inquiry 48(2) (2010).
Governance reform in legal service markets (with Ian Jewitt and Paul Grout). Economic Journal 117(519) (2007).
Simple money-based tests for choosing between private and public delivery: a discussion of the issues (with Paul Grout). Review of Industrial Organization 29(1) (2006).
Predicting Cartels (with Paul Grout). OFT Research Paper 773 (2005).
The quest for cartels (with Paul Grout). In W.D. Collins (eds.), Issues in Competition Law and Policy American Bar Association Publishing (2008).
Structural approaches to cartel detection (with Paul Grout). In C.-D. Ehlermann and I. Atanasiu (eds.) European Competition Annual 2006: Enforcement of Prohibition of Cartels, Hart Publishing, Oxford/Portland.
Understanding the Behavioral Drivers of Organisational Decision Making (with S. Wilson and J. Buzzeo), Cabinet Office (2016).
Securing the Goalposts on Vaccine Hesitancy
Jointly with Andy Brownback (U. of Arkansas), Guillermo Cruces (U. Nottingham), Seung-Keung Martinez (U. of Nottingham) and Monika Pompeo (NYU Abu Dhabi), I was awarded a BA grant on the theme of COVID-19 Recovery: building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK.
As part of this project, we developed a number of short informative videos on vaccine technology, which you can watch by clicking on the links below.
An economic theory of the glass ceiling (with In-Uck Park and Paul Grout).