Below you may find selected research articles from Economics faculty in the Argyros College of Business and Economics.

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Submissions from 2014

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Game-Theoretic Foundations of Monetary Equilibrium, Gabriele Camera and Alessandro Gioffré

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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments, Emmanuel Dechenaux, Dan Kovenock, and Roman M. Sheremeta

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Bonds, Not Bailouts, For Too Big to Fail Banks, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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How Portable is Level-0 Behavior? A Test of Level-k Theory in Games with Non-Neutral Frames, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, David Rojo Arjona, and Robert Sugden

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Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Directed Search Models, Jaehong Kim and Gabriele Camera

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation, Bettina Klose and Dan Kovenock

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The All-Pay Auction with Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities, Bettina Klose and Dan Kovenock

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Cost Share Adjustment Processes for Cooperative Group Decisions about Shared Goods: A Design Approach, Edna T. Loehman, Richard Kiser, and Stephen Rassenti

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Differential Responding by Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and Humans (Homo sapiens) to Variable Outcomes in the Assurance Game, Audrey E. Parrish, Sarah F. Brosnan, Bart J. Wilson, and Michael J. Beran

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Centralized Institutions and Cascades, Jared Rubin

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Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test Of the Role Of Printing In the Reformation, Jared Rubin

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Fair and Impartial Spectators in Experimental Economic Behavior, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson

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Horizontal Product Differentiation in Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations, Charles J. Thomas and Bart J. Wilson

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Historical Health Conditions in Major US Cities: The HUE Data Set, Carlos Villareal, Brian Bettenhausen, Eric Hanss, and Jonathan Hersh

Submissions from 2013

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Cooperation Through Unproductive Costs, Jason A. Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Michael D. Makowsky, and Jared Rubin

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Endogenous Group Formation Via Unproductive Costs, Jason A. Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Michael D. Makowsky, and Jared Rubin

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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment Among Students and Clerical Workers, Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera, and Marco Casari

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Comparative Approaches to Studying Strategy: Towards an Evolutionary Account of Primate Decision Making, Sarah F. Brosnan, Michael J. Beran, Audrey E. Parrish, Sara A. Price, and Bart J. Wilson

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Binding Promises and Cooperation Among Strangers, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, and Maria Bigoni

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Experimental Markets with Frictions, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, and Maria Bigoni

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Money and Trust Among Strangers, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, and Maria Bigoni

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Buyer's Equilibrium with Capacity Constraints and Restricted Mobility: A Recursive Approach, Gabriele Camera and Jaehong Kim

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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games, Subhasish M. Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock, and Roman M. Sheremeta

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Downside of Big-Brother Monitoring, Brice Corgnet, Brian Gunia, and Roberto Hérnan-Gonzalez

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Do Market Incentives Crowd Out Charitable Giving?, Cary Deck and Erik O. Kimbrough

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Human Economic Choice As Costly Information Processing, John Dickhaut, Vernon L. Smith, Baohua Xin, and Aldo Rustichini

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Review of A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II by Janice Traflet, Lynne Doti

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Balance Sheet Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Go West Young Man: Self-Selection and Endogenous Property Rights, Taylor Jaworski and Bart J. Wilson

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An Agent-Based Model Of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution, Michael D. Makowsky and Jared Rubin

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The Great Recession and the Property Bubble, Vernon L. Smith

Submissions from 2012

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Weakest-Link Attacker-Defender Games With Multiple Attack Technologies, Daniel G. Arce, Dan Kovenock, and Brian Roberson

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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers, Michael R. Baye, Dan Kovenock, and Casper G. de Vries

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The Herodotus Paradox, Michael R. Baye, Dan Kovenock, and Casper G. de Vries

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Resource Adequacy: Should Regulators Worry?, Hernan D. Bejarano, Lance Clifner, Carl Johnston, Stephen J. Rassenti, and Vernon L. Smith

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Age Effects and Heuristics In Decision Making, Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor

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Cooperative Strategies in Anonymous Economies: An Experiment, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, and Maria Bigoni

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Political Legitimacy and Technology Adoption, Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, and Jared Rubin

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The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire, Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, and Jared Rubin

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability In a Multigroup Asset Flow Model, Mark DeSantis, David Swigon, and Gunduz Caginalp

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Managing a Duopolistic Water Market With Confirmed Proposals. An Experiment, Aurora García-Gallego, Nikolaos Georgantzís, Roberto Hérnan-Gonzalez, and Praveen Kujal

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ObamaCare’s Flawed Economic Foundations, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Vernon L. Smith

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The Lifeboat Problem, Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

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Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games with Application to the Economics of Alliances, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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Strategic Defense and Attack for Series and Parallel Reliability Systems: Comment, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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Underwater Recession, Vernon L. Smith, Joy A. Buchanan, and Steven D. Gjerstad

Submissions from 2011

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Banking in a Matching Model of Money and Capital, Valerie R. Bencivenga and Gabriele Camera

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The Welfare Cost of Inflation in OECD Countries, P. Boel and Gabriele Camera

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US Fiscal Stimulus Disproportionately Increased Imports and Trade Deficit; Expect the Reverse with Austerity, Joy A. Buchanan, Steven D. Gjerstad, and Vernon L. Smith

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Reading, Writing, and Religion: Institutions and Human Capital Formation, Latika Chaudhary and Jared Rubin

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Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity of Ronald Coase, Thomas W. Hazlett, David P. Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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Sweet Diversity: Colonial Goods and the Welfare Gains from Trade after 1492, Jonathan Hersh and Hans-Joachim Voth

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Non-Partisan ‘Get-Out-the-Vote’ Efforts and Policy Outcomes, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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Accommodation or Deterrence in the Face of Commercial Piracy: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protections, Yuanzhu Lu and Sougata Poddar

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Are Capitalists Happier?, Ronald D. Rotunda, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Institutions, Religion, and the Rise of Europe Vis-à-Vis the Middle East: A Long-Run Reversal of Fortunes, Jared Rubin

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Institutions, the Rise of Commerce and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam and Christianity, Jared Rubin

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Review of Deirdre McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World, Jared Rubin

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Disequilibrium in the Housing Market, Vernon L. Smith

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Insolvency, Policy, and Economic Stress, Vernon L. Smith

Submissions from 2010

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Multi-player Bargaining with Endogenous Capacity, Gabriele Camera and Cemil Selcuk

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Team Formation and Self‐serving Biases, Brice Corgnet

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Mon Equipe et Moi, Brice Corgnet, Angela Sutan, and Róbert F. Vesztag

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Bolla Immobiliare una Costante Nelle Grandi Crisi, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Why We’re in for a Long, Hard Economic Slog, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Did I Do That? Group Positioning and Asymmetry in Attributional Bias, Brian Gunia and Brice Corgnet

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Discovering Economics in the Classroom with Experimental Economics and the Scottish Enlightenment, Taylor Jaworski, S. Christian Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Asymmetric Conflicts with Endogenous Dimensionality, Dan Kovenock, Michael J. Mauboussin, and Brian Roberson

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Product Innovation and Stability of Collusion, Sougata Poddar and Bibhas Saha

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Bills of Exchange, Interest Bans, and Impersonal Exchange in Islam and Christianity, Jared Rubin

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Housing, Depressions and Credit Collapses, Vernon L. Smith

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Please, No More Government Spending!, Vernon L. Smith

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What Ben Bernanke May Be Thinking, Vernon L. Smith

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An Experimental Analysis Of the Demand For Payday Loans, Bart J. Wilson, David W. Findlay, James W. Meehan Jr., Charissa P. Wellford, and Karl Schurter

Submissions from 2009

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A Correspondence-Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Optimization, C. D. Aliprantis and Gabriele Camera

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Monetary Equilibrium and the Differentiability of the Value Function, C. D. Aliprantis, Gabriele Camera, and F. Ruscitti

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Public Spending on Education and the Incentives for Student Achievement, William Blankenau and Gabriele Camera

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Financial Sophistication and the Distribution of the Welfare Cost of Inflation, P. Boel and Gabriele Camera

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Cooperation Among Strangers Under the Shadow of the Future, Gabriele Camera and M. Casari

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Price Dispersion with Directed Search, Gabriele Camera and Cemil Selcuk

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Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process, Sean Crockett, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Review of Frances Dinkelspiel's Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, Lynne Doti

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From Bubble to Depression?: Why the Housing Crash Ruined the Financial System but the Dot-com Crash Did Not, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith

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Competition for FDI with Vintage Investment and Agglomeration Advantages, Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

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The Alliance Formation Puzzle and Capacity Constraints, Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

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Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity, Jared Rubin

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Justice and Fairness In the Dictator Game, Karl Schurter and Bart J. Wilson

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Governing the Commons, Vernon L. Smith

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The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform, Vernon L. Smith

Submissions from 2008

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Interior Optima and the Inada Conditions, C. D. Aliprantis, Gabriele Camera, and F. Ruscitti

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Another Example of a Credit System that Coexists with Money, Gabriele Camera and Yiting Li

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How Many Scanned Books on the Web?, Paul A. David and Jared Rubin

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Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of US Copyright Legislation, Paul A. David and Jared Rubin

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Strategic Buyers, Horizontal Mergers and Synergies: An Experimental Investigation, Douglas D. Davis and Bart J. Wilson

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Experimental Gasoline Markets, Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson

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Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves, Thomas W. Hazlett and Vernon L. Smith

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Thar She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?, Reshmaan N. Hussam, David P. Porter, and Vernon L. Smith

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Economics Works! Experiments in High School Classrooms, Stephen L. Jackstadt, Paul Johnson, and Bart J. Wilson

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Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-Distance Trade, Erik O. Kimbrough, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Electoral poaching and party identification, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson