David J. Cooper

Research

Links to Recent Published Papers:

• “Managerial Leadership, Truth-Telling, and Efficient Coordination” (with Jordi Brandts), forthcoming The Economic Journal.  (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)

• “Why Join a Team,” (with Krista Saral and Marie Claire Villeval), Management Science, 67, 11, pp. 6980 - 6997.

• “Managing Social Credibility: An Experiment on Leadership and Coordination” (with John Hamman and Roberto Weber, 10/20), The Economic Journal, 130, pp. 2105 - 2133.

Working Papers:

• "Ambiguity in Performance Pay: A Real Effort Experiment," (with David Johnson), Department of Economics, University of Iowa, April 2025.

• “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.