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


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 Selected working papers and recent publications

 

Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders (with A. Casella and S. Turban) Social Science Working Paper #1359, California Institute of Technology, January 2012

 

Turnout and Power Sharing  (with H. Herrera and M. Morelli). Social Science Working Paper #1357, California Institute of Technology, January 2012

 

The Free Rider Problem: A Dynamic Analysis (with M. Battaglini and S. Nunnari), Social Science Working Paper #1355, California Institute of Technology, July 2011.

 

Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment (with M. Battaglini and S. Nunnari), Social Science Working Paper #1352, California Institute of Technology, August 2011.

 

Quantal Response and Non-equilibrium Beliefs Explain Overbidding in Maximum-Value Auctions (with C. Camerer and S. Nunnari), Social Science Working Paper #1349, California Institute of Technology January 2011, under revision.

 

Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: An Anti-Median Voter Theorem (with J. Grosser) Social Science Working Paper #1343, California Institute of Technology, March 2011.

 

Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes (with A. Casella and A. Llorente-Saguer), Social Science Working Paper #1331, California Institute of Technology, May 2011.

 

Speculative Overpricing in Asset Markets with Information Flows (with S. Wang) Social Science Working Paper #1309, California Institute of Technology, Revised January 2012.

 

The Dynamics of Distributive Politics (with M. Battaglini) Economic Theory, in press.

 

Network Architecture, Salience, and Coordination (with S. Choi, D. Gale, and S. Kariv) Games and Economic Behavior, September 2011, 73(1): 76-90..

 

No Trade (with J. Carrillo) Games and Economic Behavior, January 2011, 71(1): 66-87.

 

The Swing Voter’s Curse in the Laboratory (with M. Battaglini and R. Morton), Review of Economic Studies, January 2010, 77(1): 61-89.

 

Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium (with C. Camerer and B. Rogers), Journal of Economic Theory. July 2009, 144(4): 1440-67.

 

The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory, (with J. Carrillo) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. February 2009 1(1): 151-81