Thomas R. Palfrey
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science
Division of the 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

 

Political Reputations and Campaign Promises (with E. Aragones and A. Postlewaite), 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. Current version April 2008.

 

Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium (with C. Camerer and B. Rogers), Working Paper. September 2005. Current version January 2008.

 

The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory, (with J. Carrillo) forthcoming AEJ Micro.

 

Minorities and Storable Votes (with A. Casella and R. Riezman) Social Science Working Paper # 1261, California Institute of Technology, current version March 2008. Forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

 

Network Architecture, Salience, and Coordination (with S. Choi, D. Gale, and S. Kariv) Social Science Working Paper # 1291, California Institute of Technology, June 2008.

 

No Trade (with J. Carrillo) Social Science Working Paper # 1279, California Institute of Technology. Current Version: October 2007

 

External Model Validation by Parameter Recovery: An Application to Voter Turnout Models (with A. Merlo) September 2007

 

The Dynamics of Distributive Politics (with M. Battaglini) Social Science Working Paper # 1273, California Institute of Technology. July 2007.

 

On Eliciting Beliefs in Strategic Games (with S. Wang) Social Science Working Paper # 1271, California Institute of Technology. Current Version: June 2008.

 

A Citizen Candidate Model with Private Information and Unique Equilibrium (with J. Grosser) Working Paper, California Institute of Technology. Current Version: June 2008.