Thomas R. Palfrey
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science
Division of the Humanities and Social
Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Director, Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) at Caltech
Co-Director, California Social Science Experimental Laboratory (CASSEL) at UCLA
E-mail: trp at hss.caltech.edu
Office: 301A Baxter Hall
Phone: (626) 395-4088
Fax: (626) 432-1726
Selected
recent publications
Experiments
in Political Economy , in The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol. II (Kagel and Roth, eds.), forthcoming.
Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: An Anti-Median Voter Theorem (with J. Grosser) American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. Appendix
Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment (with M. Battaglini and S. Nunnari), American Political Science Review, 2012. Appendix
Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes (with A. Casella and A. Llorente-Saguer), Journal of Political Economy, 2012.
Speculative Overpricing in Asset Markets with Information Flows (with S. Wang) Econometrica, 2012.
The
Dynamics of Distributive Politics (with M. Battaglini)
Economic Theory, 2012.
Information Gatekeepers: Theory and Experimental Evidence (with I. Brocas and J. Carrillo) Economic Theory, 2012.
No Trade (with J. Carrillo), Games and Economic Behavior, 2011.
Network Architecture, Salience, and Coordination (with S. Choi, D. Gale, and S. Kariv). Games and Economic Behavior, 2011. Appendix
The Swing Voter’s Curse in the Laboratory (with M. Battaglini and R. Morton), Review of Economic Studies, 2010.
Selected recent working papers
Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders (with A. Casella and S. Turban) Social Science Working Paper #1359, California Institute of Technology, Current Version, January 2013
Turnout and Power Sharing (with H. Herrera and M. Morelli). Social Science Working Paper #1357, California Institute of Technology, Current Version July 2013
External Validation of Voter Turnout Models by Concealed Parameter Recovery (with A. Merlo) Social Science Working Paper #1370, California Institute of Technology, Current Version February 2013.
Symmetric play in repeated allocation games (with C. Kuzmics and B. Rogers), Social Science Working Paper #1363, California Institute of Technology, Current Version January 2013.
The Dynamic Free Riding with Irreversible Investments. [formerly titled The Free Rider Problem: A Dynamic Analysis] (with M. Battaglini and S. Nunnari), Social Science Working Paper #1355, California Institute of Technology, Current Version February 2013.
The Dynamic Free Rider Problem: A Laboratory Study (with M. Battaglini and S. Nunnari), Social Science Working Paper #1371, California Institute of Technology, Current Version January 2013 (under revision).
Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution (with M. Agranov), Working Paper, California Institute of Technology, Current Version March 2013 (under revision).