Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory
• Applied Game Theory
• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Economics and Psychology of Relative Comparisons

Publications

• "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)
• "A Permit Allocation Contest for a Tradable Pollution Permit Market" (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)
• "Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments Versus the Inequality of Rewards" (2010), with Ed Hopkins, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming.
• "Does Competition Affect Giving?" (2010), with John Duffy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.

Working Papers/Work in Progress

• "A Cognitive Basis for Cardinal Utility" (2004)
• "Local Status and Prospect Theory" (2000), with Rick Harbaugh

CV

Updated February 8, 2010