David J. Cooper

Research

Links to Recent Published Papers:

• “Ambiguity in Performance Pay: A Real Effort Experiment,” (with David Johnson), forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

• “Managerial Leadership, Truth-Telling, and Efficient Coordination” (with Jordi Brandts), The Economic Journal, 135, 670 pp. 1942-1979.  (online appendix)

• “Effective Leadership Across Economic Contexts,” (with Giovanna D’Adda and Roberto Weber, 8/24), The Leadership Quarterly, 35, 4, 101788.

• “The Types They Are a-Changin': An Experimental Study of Persistence of Types in Level-k Models” (with Enrique Fatas, Antonio Morales, and Shi Qi, 11/24), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16, 4, pp. 40 – 76.  (online appendices)

• “Using Team Discussions to Understand Behavior in Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games,” (with John Kagel) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15, 4, pp. 114 - 145.  (online appendix)

Working Papers:

• “A Practical Guide to LLM-Based Analysis of Communication in Experiments,” (with Andrzej Baranski and Jeong Kyu Lee), Working Paper, University of Iowa, June 2026.

• "Unprompted Changes in Indefinitely Repeated PD Games," (with John Kagel, Shi Qi, and Calvin McElvain), Department of Economics, University of Iowa, January 2026.

• “Learning and Contagion in Teams,” (with John Kagel), Department of Economics, Florida State University, August 2018.

Surveys:

• “Leadership and Delegation of Authority,” (with John Hamman) in Marie Claire Villeval and Klaus Zimmerman (eds.), The Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, forthcoming, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

• “Do Entrepreneurs Exhibit Different Preferences than Non-entrepreneurs? A Behavioral Economics Perspective,” (with Krista Saral) in Marie Claire Villeval and Klaus Zimmerman (eds.), The Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, forthcoming, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

• “Recent Advances in Experimental Coordination Games,” (with Roberto Weber) in M. Capra, R. Croson, M. Rigdon, and T. Rosenblatt (eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Game Theory, forthcoming Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

• “Communication in Experiments,” (with Jordi Brandts and Christina Rott) in Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, (2019) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

• “Other Regarding Preferences: A Survey of Experimental Results,” (with John Kagel) in J. Kagel and A. Roth (eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol. 2, (2016) Princeton: Princeton University Press.