Thomas R. Palfrey
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences

California Institute of Technology


E-mail: trp@hss.caltech.edu
Office: 301A Baxter Hall
Phone: (626) 395-4088
Fax: (626) 432-1726


CV


 

 Selected recent publications and working papers

 

Spatial Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information. (with E. Aragones), in Social Choice and Strategic Behavior: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Scot Banks.  D. Austen-Smith and J. Duggan eds. Springer: Berlin. 2005.

 

Regular Quantal Response Equilibrium (with J. Goeree and C. Holt,” Experimental Economics, 2005, 8(4), 347-67

 

Social Learning with Private and Common Values, (with J. Goeree and B. Rogers) Caltech SSWP # 1187. Economic Theory. 2006.

 

An Experimental Study of Storable Votes, (with A. Casella and A. Gelman) Games and Economic Behavior. 2006.

 

Laboratory Experiments in Political Economy. in Handbook of Political Economy.  B. Weingast and D. Wittman eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 2006.

 

McKelvey and Quantal Response Equilibrium. in A Positive Change in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey’s Most Influential Writings.  J. Aldrich, J. Alt, and A. Lupia eds. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor. Forthcoming 2006.

 

A General Characterization of Interim Efficient Mechanisms for Independent Linear Environments, (with J. Ledyard) Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming 2006.

 

An Equilibrium Model of Federalism with Externalities, (with J. Crémer) Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming 2006.

 

The Selection Effect in Auctions with Endogenous Entry: An Experimental Study, (with S. Pevnitskaya) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming 2006.

 

The Paradox of Voter Participation: A Laboratory Study (with D. Levine) ) 2006 American Political Science Review, forthcoming.

 

Political Reputations and Campaign Promises (with E. Aragones and A. Postlewaite), 2006, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.

 

The Swing Voter’s Curse in the Laboratory (with M. Battaglini and R. Morton), Working Paper, November 2005 (new version Dec. 2006)

 

Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium (with C. Camerer and B. Rogers), Working Paper, May 2006

 

Minorities and Storable Votes (with A. Casella and R. Riezman), Working Paper, September 2005

 

Efficiency, Equity, and Timing in Voting Mechanisms (with M. Battaglini and R. Morton), 2006 American Political Science Review, forthcoming.

 

Self-Correcting Information Cascades, (with J. Goeree, B. Rogers, and R. McKelvey) 2006. Caltech SSWP # 1197, forthcoming Review of Economic Studies.

 

The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory, (with J. Carrillo) Working Paper, December 2006.