Vai-Lam Mui

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Research Interests

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Behavioral Economics

Economics of Organizations and Institutions

Experimental Economics

Political Economy

Publications (most papers can be downloaded through journal websites by clicking the links below)

Articles

• • "Economic Growth and Generalized Depreciation," joint with Steven M. Goldman and Tosio Kato, Journal of Development Economics, 34 (1991): 397-400, November 1990.

  • "The Economics of Envy," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 26: 311-336 (lead article), May, 1995.

  • "A Laboratory Study of Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game," joint with Timothy N. Cason, Economic Journal, 107: 1465-1483, September, 1997.

  • "Social Influence in the Sequential Dictator Game," joint with Timothy N. Cason, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42: 248-265, June/September, 1998.

  • "Contracting in the Shadow of a Corrupt Court," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 155: 249-283 (lead article), June, 1999.

  • "Information, Civil Liberties, and the Political Economy of Witch-hunts," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15: 503-525, July 1999.

  • "Fairness and Sharing in Innovation Games: A Laboratory Investigation," joint with Timothy N. Cason, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 48: 243-264, July, 2002.

  • "Testing Political Economy Models of Reform in the Laboratory," joint with Timothy N. Cason, American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 93: 208-212, May, 2003.

  • "Uncertainty and Resistance to Reform in Laboratory Participation Games," joint with Timothy N. Cason, European Journal of Political Economy, 21: 708-737, 2005.

  • "Rules of Engagement, Credibility and the Political Economy of Organizational Dissent," joint with Nicholas Argyres, Strategic Organization, 5: 107-154 (lead article), May, 2007.

  • "Communication and Coordination in the Laboratory Collective Resistance Game," joint with Timothy N. Cason, Experimental Economics, 10: 251-267, 2007.

  • "Using Turn Taking to Mitigate Coordination and Conflict Problems in the Repeated Battle of the Sexes Game," joint with Sau-Him Paul Lau, Theory and Decision, 65: 153-183, 2008.

  • "Using Turn Taking to Achieve Intertemporal Cooperation and Symmetry in Infinitely Repeated 2x2 Games," joint with Sau-Him Paul Lau, Theory and Decision, 72: 167-188, 2012. Supplementary Appendix.

  • "Learning, Teaching, and Turn Taking in the Repeated Assignment Game," joint with Timothy N. Cason and Sau-Him Paul Lau, Economic Theory, 54: 335-357, 2013. Instructions.

  • "Coordinating Resistance through Communication and Repeated Interaction," joint with Timothy N. Cason, The Economic Journal, 124: F226-F256, 2014. Technical Appendices.

  • "Rich Communication, Social Motivations, and Coordinated Resistance against Divide-and Conquer: A Laboratory Investigation," joint with Timothy N. Cason, European Journal of Political Economy, 37: 146-159, 2015. Appendices.

  • "Individual versus Group Play in the Repeated Coordinated Resistance Game," joint with Timothy N. Cason, Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2: 94–106, 2015 (JEPS is the new official journal of the Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association). Appendices.

  • "The Prince-or Better No Prince? The Strategic Value of Appointing a Successor," joint with Kai A. Konrad, Journal of Conflict Resolution , 61: 2158-2182, 2017 , Online Appendix.

  • "Individual versus Group Choices of Repeated Game Strategies: A Strategy Method Approach,” joint with Timothy N. Cason, Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 128-145, 2019.

  • "Prior Interaction, Identity, and Cooperation in the Inter-Group Prisoner’s Dilemma," joint with Timothy N. Cason and Sau-Him Paul Lau, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization .

Book Reviews

• • Review of Social Norms, edited by Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, Journal of Economic Literature, 40: 927-928, September, 2002.