"Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status", with Ed Hopkins, American Economic Review, September 2004, 94 (4), pp. 1085-1107, (abstract).

"Inequality and Growth in the Presence of Competition for Status", with Ed Hopkins, Economics Letters, 2006, 93, pp. 291–296, (abstract)

"Cross and Double Cross: Comparative Statics in First Price and All Pay Auctions", with Ed Hopkins, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2007, Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 19, (abstract)

"The Optimal Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits: A Relative Performance Approach", with Ian Mackenzie and Nick Hanley, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2008, 39 (3), pp. 265-282, (abstract)

"Using contests to allocate pollution rights" (2009), with Ian Mackenzie and Nick Hanley, Energy Policy, 37, pp. 2798–2806, (abstract)

"Status, Affluence, and Inequality: Rank-Based Comparisons in Games of Status" (2009), with Ed Hopkins, Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), pp. 552-568, (abstract)

"Does Competition Affect Giving?" (2010), with John Duffy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 74 (1-2), pp. 82-103, (abstract)

"Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments Versusthe Inequality of Rewards" (2010), with Ed Hopkins, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2 (3), pp. 106-37, (abstract)

"Information Choice in a Social Learning Experiment" (2019), with John Duffy, Ed Hopkins, and Mingye Ma, Games and Economic Behavior, 118, pp. 295-315, (abstract)

"Lone Wolf or Herd Animal? Information Choice and Learning from Others" (2021), with John Duffy, and Ed Hopkins, European Economic Review, 134C, Article 103690, (abstract) (Earlier version)

"Facing the Grim Truth: Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Against Robot Opponents"  (2023), with John Duffy and Ed Hopkins

"Competitive Bidding, Predation, and Expropriation: A Unified Model" (2025) [Earlier version: "Expropriation Auctions: Predation Contests and Wallet Games"  (2020)]

"Level-k in Ring Games: Iterative Reasoning and Incentives on AMT" (in progress), with Yaoyao Xu

"Rationality, Inattention and Heterogeneity in Experimental Data" (in progress), with John Duffy and Ed Hopkins

"Anarchy, Property, and Power" (in progress)

"Anarchy, Morals, and Status" (in progress)

"Nature's Measuring Tape: A Cognitive Basis for Adaptive Utility"  (2013) (Earlier and less developed versions: "A Cognitive Basis for Context-Dependent Utility" (2011)  and  "A Cognitive Basis for Cardinal Utility" [2004])

"Local Status and Prospect Theory" (2000), with Rick Harbaugh