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
Selected
recent publications and working papers
Spatial Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of
Candidate Ideology and Private Information. (with
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.
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.
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
The Paradox of Voter Participation: A Laboratory Study (with D. Levine) ) 2006 American Political Science Review,
forthcoming.
Political Reputations and
Campaign Promises (with
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.