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# Title Authors Date
1293 An empirical Bayes approach to estimating ordinal treatment effects Alvarez, R. Michael; Bailey, Delia; Katz, Jonathan H. Jul 2008
1292 A citizen candidate model with private information and unique equilibrium Grober, Jens; Palfrey, Thomas Jun 2008
1291 Network architecture, salience and coordination Choi, Syngjoo; Gale, Douglas; Kariv, Shachar; Palfrey, Thomas Jun 2008
1290 A statistical model of abstention under compulsory voting Katz, Gabriel Jun 2008
1288 Policy-based abstention in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election Katz, Gabriel Dec 2007
1287 A Bayesian multinomial probit analysis of voter choice in Chile’s 2005 presidential election (Revised April 2008) Alvarez, R. Michael; Katz, Gabriel Dec 2007
1286 Choice and individual welfare Chambers, Christopher P.; Hayashi, Takashi Mar 2008
1285 Ideology and competence in alternative electoral systems Iaryczower, Matias; Mattozzi, Andrea Jul 2008
1284 The impact of minority representation on policy outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. States Ueda, Michiko Mar 2008
1283 The impact of race and ideology on voting: Does race still matter? Ueda, Michiko Mar 2008
1282 Volunteering and image concerns Linardi, Sera; McConnell, Margaret A. Mar 2008
1281 You won’t harm me if you fool me Echenique, Federico; Shmaya, Eran Dec 2007
1280 Information aggregation in standing and ad hoc committees (formerly: Information aggregation and equilibrium selection in committees) Ali, S. Nageeb; Goeree, Jacob K.; Kartik, Navin; Palfrey, Thomas R.
1279 No Trade Carrillo, Juan D.; Palfrey, Thomas R. Sep 2007
1278 A test for monotone comparative statics Echenique, Federico; Komunjer, Ivana Sep 2007
1277 The “Reasonable Man” and other legal standards Miller, Alan D. Sep 2007
1276 Principles of continuous price determination in an experimental environment with flows of random arrivals and departures Alton, Michael R.; Plott, Charles R. Sep 2007
1275 Strategic voting in sequential committees Iaryczower, Matias Aug 2007
1274 The control of game form recognition in experiments: Understanding dominant strategy failures in a simple two person “Guessing” game Chou, Eileen; McConnell, Margaret; Nagel, Rosemarie; Plott, Charles R. Aug 2007
1273 The dynamics of distributive politics Battaglini, Marco; Palfrey, Thomas R. Jul 2007
1272 A measure of bizarreness Chambers, Christopher P.; Miller, Alan D. Jul 2007
1271 On eliciting beliefs in strategic games Palfrey, Thomas R.; Wang, Stephanie W.
1270 On behavioral complementarity and its implications Chambers, Christopher P.; Echenique, Federico; Shmaya, Eran Jul 2007
1269 Sequential entry in many-to-one matching markets Boyle, Elette; Echenique, Federico Jun 2007
1268 Design improved parimutuel-type information aggregation mechanisms: Inaccuracies & the long-shot bias as disequilibrium phenomena Axelrod, Boris S.; Kulick, Benjamin J.; Plott, Charles R.; Roust, Kevin A. Mar 2007
1267 The effect of voter identification laws on turnout Alvarez, R. Michael; Bailey, Delia; Katz, Jonathan Oct 2007
1266 Auctioning off the agenda: Bargaining in legislatures with endogenous scheduling Copic, Jernej; Katz, Jonathan Mar 2007
1265 Supermodular Bayesian implementation: Learning and incentive design Mathevet, Laurent Mar 2007
1264 Diffusion of Behavior and Equilibrium Properties in Network Games Jackson, Matthew O.; Yariv, Leeat Oct 2006
1263 The Swing Voter’s Curse in the laboratory Battaglini, Marco; Morton, Rebecca; Palfrey, Thomas R. Dec 2006
1262 Efficiency, equity, and timing of voting mechanisms Battaglini, Marco; Morton, Rebecca; Palfrey, Thomas R. Dec 2006
1261 Minorities and storable votes Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R.; Riezman, Raymond Dec 2006
1260 Heterogeneous quantal response equilibrium and cognitive hierarchies Camerer, Colin F.; Palfrey, Thomas R.; Rogers, Brian W. Dec 2006
1259 The compromise game: Two-sided adverse selection in the laboratory Carrillo, Juan D.; Palfrey, Thomas R. Dec 2006
1258 Political reputations and campaign promises Aragones, Enriqueta; Palfrey, Thomas R.; Postlewaite, Andrew Dec 2006
1257 Voting blocs, coalitions and parties Eguia, Jon X. Nov 2006
1256 Attack politics: Who goes negative and why? Mattes, Kyle Oct 2006
1255 Contestable leaderships: Party discipline and vote buying in legislatures Iaryczower, Matias Aug 2006
1254 Interim efficient mechanism design with interdependent valuations Kucuksenel, Serkan Aug 2006
1253 Sequencing strategies in large, competitive, ascending price automobile auctions: An experimental examination Grether, David M.; Plott, Charles R. Jun 2006
1252 What matchings can be stable? The refutability of matching theory Echenique, Federico Apr 2006
1251 Diffusion on social networks (Published in Economie Publique, No. 15 2005/1, pp. 3-16.) Jackson, Matthew O.; Yariv, Leeat Mar 2006
1250 Nomination processes and policy outcomes (Published in Quarterly Journal of Political Science, V. 2, #1 (2007) pp. 67-94.) Jackson, Matthew O.; Mathevet, Laurent; Mattes, Kyle Mar 2006
1249 Separation of decision in group identification Miller, Alan D. Mar 2006
1248 Supermodularizability Chambers, Christopher P.; Echenique, Federico Feb 2006
1247 Political bias and war (Forthcoming in American Economic Review.) Jackson, Matthew O.; Morelli, Massimo Jan 2006
1246 A simple axiomatization of quantiles on the domain of distribution functions Chambers, Christopher P. Jan 2006
1245 The design and testing of information aggregation mechanisms: A Two-stage parimutuel IAM Roust, Kevin A.; Plott, Charles R. Dec 2005
1244 Testing Models w/ multiple equilibria by quantile methods Echenique, Federico; Komunjer, Ivana Dec 2005
1243 A contraction principle for finite global games Mathevet, Laurent Mar 2006
1242 Like father, like son: Social networks, human capital investment, and social mobility Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. Nov 2005
1241 Non-Existence of Equilibrium in Vickrey, Second-Price, and English Auctions Jackson, Matthew O. Nov 2005
1240 Congestion at locks on inland waterways: An experimental Testbed of a policy of tradable priority permits for lock access Cook, Joseph; Plott, Charles R. Nov 2005
1239 Divergence, closed cycles and convergence in scarf environments: Experiments in the dynamics of general equilibrium systems Hirota, Masayoshi; Hsu, Ming; Plott, Chrales R.; Rogers, Brian W. Oct 2005
1238 Bayesian consistent prior selection Chambers, Christopher P.; Hayashi, Takashi Sep 2005
1237 The economics of social networks (Published in Advances in Economics & Econometrics, Theory & Applications: Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, ed. by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson. Cambridge University Press, 2006, Chap. 1, Vol. 1, pg. 1-56.) Jackson, Matthew O. Aug 2005
1236 Iterative elimination of weakly dominated strategies in binary voting agendas with sequential voting Hummel, Patrick Aug 2005
1235 Finite perfect information extensive games with generic payoffs Hummel, Patrick Aug 2005
1234 An explanation of inefficient redistribution: Transfers insure cohesive groups (Forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Political Science) Echenique, Federico; Eguia, Jon X. Aug 2005
1233 Citizen candidates under uncertainty Eguia, Jon X. Aug 2005
1232 Trade rules for uncleared markets Kibris, Ozgur; Kucuksenel, Serkan Aug 2005
1231 Proper scoring rules for general decision models Chambers, Christopher P. Aug 2005
1230 Asymmetries in exchange behavior incorrectly interpreted as evidence of prospect theory Plott, Charles; Zeiler, Kathryn Jul 2005
1229 Policy uncertainty, electoral securities and redistribution Mattozzi, Andrea. Jun 2005
1228 Objective subjective probabilities Border, Kim C.; Ghirardato, Paolo; Segal, Uzi Jun 2005
1227 The Kariba case study Scudder, Thayer Jun 2005
1226 A Solution to Matching with Preferences over Colleagues (Published in Games and Economic Behavior 59 (2007) 46-71.) Echenique, Federico; Yenmez, Mehmet B. Jun 2005
1225 Consumers networks and search equilibria Galeotti, Andrea Jun 2005
1224 Strategic analysis in complex networks with local externalities Galeotti, Andrea; Vega-Redondo, Fernando Jun 2005
1223 Tacit collusion in auctions and conditions for its facilitation and prevention: Equilibrium selection in laboratory experimental markets Li, Jin; Plott, Charles R. Nov 2005
1222 Quantiles and medians Chambers, Christopher P. Apr 2005
1219 Regular Quantal Response Equilibrium Goeree, Jacob; Holt, Charles; Palfrey, Thomas Mar 2005
1218 An axiomatic theory of political representation Chambers, Christoper P. Mar 2005
1217 Consistent Representative Democracy Chambers, Christopher P. Mar 2005
1216 Search in the formation of large networks: How random are socially generated networks? Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian W. Mar 2005
1215 Vote buying Jackson, Matthew O.; Dekel, Eddie; Wolinsky, Asher Mar 2005
1214 The economics of small worlds Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian W. Mar 2005
1213 Networks in labor markets: Wage & employment dynamics & inequality (Published: Published in Journal of Economic Theory, V. 132, #1 (2007), pp. 27-46.) Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. Mar 2005
1212 Social Games: Matching and the play of finitely repeated games Jackson, Matthew O.; Watts, Alison Mar 2005
1208 United We Vote Eguia, Jon X. Dec 2004
1207 Can we insure against political uncertainty? Evidence from the U.S. Stock Market Mattozzi, Andrea Oct 2004
1206 Membership in Citizen Groups Barbieri, Stefano; Mattozzi, Andrea Oct 2004
1205 Random Coefficient models for time-series-cross-section data Nathaniel Beck, Jonathan N. Katz Sep 2004
1204 On the Microstructure of Price Determination and Information Aggregation with Sequential and Asymmetric Information Arrival in an Experimental Asset Market Barner, Martin; Feri, Francesco; Plott, Charles Aug 2004
1203 Regular quantal response equilibrium (Experimental Economics 8:347-367 (2005)) Goeree, Jacob K.; Holt, Charles A.; Palfrey, Thomas R. Jun 2004
1202 Forced information disclosure and the fallacy of transparency in markets Cason, Timothy N.; Plott, Charles R. Jun 2004
1201 This working paper was never issued
1200 Criminal Investigation Enforcement Activities and Taxpayer Noncompliance Dubin, Jeffrey A. May 2004
1199 Counting Combinatoral Choice Rules (Published: Published in Games and Economic Behavior 58 (2007) 231-245.) Echenique, Federico Apr 2004
1198 A Model of Elections with Spatial and Distributive Preferences Hsu, Ming Mar 2004
1197 Self-correcting Information Cascades Goeree, Jacob; Palfrey, Thomas; Rogers, Brian; McKelvey, Richard Apr 2004
1196 On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union (Published: Published in Journal of Political Economy, V. 114, #2, (2006), pp. 317-339.) Barbera, Salvador; Matthew O. Jackson Apr 2004
1195 The Banks Set & the Uncovered Set in Budget Allocation Problems (Published: Published in Social Choice & Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks, ed. by David Austen-Smith & John Duggan, Springer Verlag: Heidelberg, 2005.) Dutta, Bhaskar; Matthew O. Jackson; Le Breton, Michel May 2004
1194 The Formation of Networks with Transfers among Players (Published: Published in Journal of Economic Theory, V. 133, #1, 2007, pp. 83-110.) Bloch, Francis; Jackson, Matthew Apr 2004
1193 Group Play in Games and the Role of Consent in Network Formation (Published: Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory.) Charness, Gary; Jackson, Matthew O. May 2004
1192 Existence of Equilibrium in Single and Double Private Value Auctions (Forthcoming: Econometrica) Jackson, Matthew O.; Jeroen Swinkels Mar 2004
1191 On the informational inefficiency of discriminatory price auctions (Published in Journal of Economic Theory, V. 132, #1, (2007) pp. 507-517) Jackson, Matthew O.; Kremer, Ilan Jan 2004
1190 The Relevance of a Choice of Auction Format in a Competitive Environment (Published: Published in Review of Economic Studies, V. 73, #4, 2006, ppg. 941-960) Jackson, Matther O.; Ilan Kremer Jan 2004
1189 Mental Processes & Strategic Equilibration: An fMRI Study of Selling Strategy in Second Price Auctions Grether, David; Plott, Charles; Rowe, Daniel; Sereno, Martin; Allman, John Jun 2004
1188 Production, trade, prices, exchange rates and equilibration in large experimental economies Noussair, Charles; Plott, Charles; Riezman, Raymond Nov 2003
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