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 at hss dot caltech dot edu
Office: 301A Baxter Hall
Phone: (626) 395-4088
Fax: (626) 432-1726
Selected
recent publications and working papers
A General
Characterization of Interim Efficient Mechanisms for Independent Linear
Environments, (with J. Ledyard) Journal of Economic Theory, March 2007,
133(1): 441-66.
The Paradox of Voter
Participation: A Laboratory Study (with D. Levine) American Political
Science Review, 2007, 101(February), 143-58.
Political Reputations
and Campaign Promises (with
Self-Correcting
Information Cascades, (with J. Goeree, B. Rogers, and R. McKelvey) Review of
Economic Studies, July 2007, 74(3): 733-62.
Efficiency, Equity,
and Timing in Voting Mechanisms (with M. Battaglini and R. Morton) American
Political Science Review, 2007, 101(August):
409-424.
Information Aggregation and Strategic Abstention in Large
Laboratory Elections (with M. Battaglini and R.
Morton). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. 2008.
98(2):194-200. This version corrects the
published version, which had typos in Table 2.
Information
Aggregation In Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
(with N. Ali, J. Goeree, and
Spatial Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of
Candidate Ideology and Private Information. (with
The Swing Voter’s Curse in the Laboratory (with M. Battaglini and R.
Morton), forthcoming Review of Economic
Studies.
Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium (with B. Rogers and C.
Camerer), forthcoming Journal of Economic
Theory.
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) 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: September 2008
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.
A Citizen Candidate Model with Private Information and Unique Equilibrium (with J. Grosser) Working Paper, California Institute of Technology. Current Version: June 2008.