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