Professor Cason is the inaugural Robert and Susan Gadomski chair in economics, and a Distinguished Professor (Purdue University’s highest academic recognition). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of industrial organization, experimental and behavioral economics, and environmental economics. His research areas include experimental markets, environmental regulation, and antitrust.

Professor Cason has published research in many leading journals, including Science, the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a former Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, a past editor of the journal Experimental Economics, and has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Games and Economic Behavior.

Professor Cason was President of the Economic Science Association (2009-2011), which is the international society of experimental economists. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1998, he was an associate professor (1997-98) and assistant professor (1991-97) at the University of Southern California.