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Working Papers

2009

1. Common Fate, Game Harmony and Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
   ISLA Working Papers, ISLA, Centre for research on Latin American Studies and Transition Economies, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy
2. Spurious complexity and common standards in markets for consumer goods
   Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek
   Also in Working Papers, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia (2007)
3. The reasoning-based expected utility procedure
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

2008

4. Common reasoning in games
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham
5. Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

2007

6. Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

2006

7. The Nature of Salience Revisited: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham View citations

2005

8. Common reasoning in games: a resolution of the paradoxes of ‘common knowledge of rationality’
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham
9. Explaining preference reversal with third-generation prospect theory
   Discussion Papers, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

2002

10. Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets?
    Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002, Royal Economic Society
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2003)

1998

11. A Microeconometric Test of Alternative Stochastic Theories of Risky Choice
    University of East Anglia - Economics Research Centre, Economics Research Centre, University of East Anglia, School of Economics and Social Studies
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2002)
12. A Theory of General Equilibrium with Reference-Dependent Preferences
    University of East Anglia - Economics Research Centre, Economics Research Centre, University of East Anglia, School of Economics and Social Studies View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. Market simulation and the provision of public goods: A non-paternalistic response to anomalies in environmental evaluation
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009, 57, (1), 87-103

2008

2. Third-generation prospect theory
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 36, (3), 203-223
3. Why incoherent preferences do not justify paternalism
   Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (3), 226-248 View citations

2007

4. Can ranking techniques elicit robust values?
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2007, 34, (1), 49-66 View citations
5. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests. Edited by HERBERT GINTIS, SAMUEL BOWLES, ROBERT BOYD and ERNST FEHR
   Economica, 2007, 74, (294), 371-372
6. The road not taken: how psychology was removed from economics, and how it might be brought back
   Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (516), 146-173 View citations
7. The value of opportunities over time when preferences are unstable
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2007, 29, (4), 665-682 View citations

2006

8. Finding the key: The riddle of focal points
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2006, 27, (5), 609-621 View citations
9. What We Desire, What We Have Reason to Desire, Whatever We Might Desire: Mill and Sen on the Value of Opportunity
   Utilitas, 2006, 18, (01), 33-51

2005

10. Anomalies and Stated Preference Techniques: A Framework for a Discussion of Coping Strategies
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 32, (1), 1-12 View citations
11. Coping with Preference Anomalies in Cost–Benefit Analysis: A Market-Simulation Approach
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 32, (1), 129-160
12. Experienced Utility as a Standard of Policy Evaluation
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 32, (1), 161-181 View citations
13. Experiment, theory, world: A symposium on the role of experiments in economics
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2005, 12, (2), 177-184
14. Experiments as exhibits and experiments as tests
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2005, 12, (2), 291-302 View citations
15. Testing competing models of loss aversion: an adversarial collaboration
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (8), 1561-1580 View citations
16. Why rationality is not a consequence of Hume's theory of choice
    European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2005, 12, (1), 113-118 View citations

2004

17. Living with unfairness: The limits of equal opportunity in a market economy
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 22, (1), 211-236
18. Sugden's Comment on Lomasky
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, 63, (1), 207-211
19. The Opportunity Criterion: Consumer Sovereignty Without the Assumption of Coherent Preferences
    American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (4), 1014-1033 View citations

2003

20. Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets?
    Economic Journal, 2003, 113, (486), C153-C166 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)
21. On the theory of reference-dependent preferences
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003, 50, (4), 407-428 View citations
22. Reference-dependent subjective expected utility
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2003, 111, (2), 172-191 View citations

2002

23. A Microeconometric Test of Alternative Stochastic Theories of Risky Choice
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2002, 24, (2), 103-30 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1998)

2001

24. Discovered preferences and the experimental evidence of violations of expected utility theory
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001, 8, (3), 385-414 View citations
25. Dynamic Decision-Making under Uncertainty: An Experimental Investigation of Choices between Accumulator Gambles
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2001, 22, (2), 103-28 View citations
26. Ken Binmore's Evolutionary Social Theory [Review Article]
    Economic Journal, 2001, 111, (469), F213-43
27. On Money Pumps
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2001, 37, (1), 121-160 View citations
28. Positive confirmation bias in the acquisition of information
    Theory and Decision, 2001, 50, (1), 59-99
29. The evolutionary turn in game theory
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001, 8, (1), 113-130 View citations

2000

30. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2000, 7, (1), 1-31 View citations
31. Estimating Four Hicksian Welfare Measures for a Public Good: A Contingent Valuation Investigation
    Land Economics, 2000, 76, (3), 355-373 View citations
32. Martin Hollis: philosopher of social science
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2000, 7, (3), 427-445

1998

33. Difficulties in the Theory of Rational Choice [Review Article]
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 1998, 5, (1), 157-63
34. Dynamic Choice and the Common Ratio Effect: An Experimental Investigation
    Economic Journal, 1998, 108, (450), 1362-80 View citations
35. On the Validity of the Random Lottery Incentive System
    Experimental Economics, 1998, 1, (2), 115-131 View citations
36. Testing Alternative Explanations of Cyclical Choices
    Economica, 1998, 65, (259), 347-61 View citations
37. Testing Different Stochastic Specifications of Risky Choice
    Economica, 1998, 65, (260), 581-98 View citations
38. The Selection of Preferences through Imitation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, (4), 761-71 View citations

1996

39. Paul Anand, Foundations of Rational Choice Under Risk, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. xi + 161
    Utilitas, 1996, 8, (02), 254-256

1995

40. A Theory of Focal Points
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (430), 533-50 View citations
41. Incorporating a stochastic element into decision theories
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (3-4), 641-648 View citations
42. The coexistence of conventions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1995, 28, (2), 241-256 View citations

1994

43. Rationally Justifiable Play and the Theory of Non-cooperative Games
    Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (425), 798-803 View citations
44. The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (3), 658-73 View citations

1993

45. An Axiomatic Foundation for Regret Theory
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1993, 60, (1), 159-180 View citations
46. Max Black, Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990, pp. ix + 201
    Utilitas, 1993, 5, (01), 124-126
47. Testing for Juxtaposition and Event-Splitting Effects
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1993, 6, (3), 235-54 View citations
48. Welfare, Resources, and Capabilities: A Review [Inequality Reexamined]
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1993, 31, (4), 1947-62

1992

49. Are Preferences Monotonic? Testing Some Predictions of Regret Theory
    Economica, 1992, 59, (233), 17-33 View citations

1991

50. Does the Random-Lottery Incentive System Elicit True Preferences? An Experimental Investigation
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (4), 971-78 View citations
51. Observing Violations of Transitivity by Experimental Methods
    Econometrica, 1991, 59, (2), 425-39 View citations
52. Rational Choice: A Survey of Contributions from Economics and Philosophy
    Economic Journal, 1991, 101, (407), 751-85 View citations

1990

53. Michael Slote, Beyond Optimizing, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. xi + 192
    Utilitas, 1990, 2, (02), 336-338
54. The cement of society: A study of social order: Jon Elster, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989), pp. viii + 311, $44.50 (cloth), $15.95 (paper)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1990, 14, (3), 439-441

1989

55. Preference Reversal: Information-Processing Effect or Rational Non-transitive Choice?
    Economic Journal, 1989, 99, (395), 140-51 View citations
56. Probability and Juxtaposition Effects: An Experimental Investigation of the Common Ratio Effect
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1989, 2, (2), 159-78 View citations
57. Spontaneous Order
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989, 3, (4), 85-97 View citations

1987

58. Some implications of a more general form of regret theory
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1987, 41, (2), 270-287 View citations
59. Testing for Regret and Disappointment in Choice under Uncertainty
    Economic Journal, 1987, 97, (388a), 118-29 View citations

1986

60. Disappointment and Dynamic Consistency in Choice under Uncertainty
    Review of Economic Studies, 1986, 53, (2), 271-82 View citations
61. New Developments in the Theory of Choice under Uncertainty
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1986, 38, (1), 1-24 View citations

1985

62. Consistent conjectures and voluntary contributions to public goods: why the conventional theory does not work
    Journal of Public Economics, 1985, 27, (1), 117-124 View citations
63. Why Be Consistent? A Critical Analysis of Consistency Requirements in Choice Theory
    Economica, 1985, 52, (206), 167-83 View citations

1984

64. Reciprocity: The Supply of Public Goods through Voluntary Contributions
    Economic Journal, 1984, 94, (376), 772-87 View citations
65. Regret Theory and Information: A Reply
    Economic Journal, 1984, 94, (375), 649-50

1983

66. A Rationale for Preference Reversal
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (3), 428-32 View citations
67. Evaluating choice: A reply
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1983, 3, (1), 85-87
68. On the Economics of Philanthropy: Reply
    Economic Journal, 1983, 93, (371), 639
69. Regret theory and measurable utility
    Economics Letters, 1983, 12, (1), 19-21 View citations

1982

70. Evaluating choice
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1982, 2, (1), 47-65 View citations
71. On the Economics of Philanthropy
    Economic Journal, 1982, 92, (366), 341-50 View citations
72. Regret Theory: An Alternative Theory of Rational Choice under Uncertainty
    Economic Journal, 1982, 92, (368), 805-24 View citations

1980

73. An application of search theory to the analysis of regional labour markets
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1980, 10, (1), 43-51 View citations

1979

74. A Contractual Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics
    Economica, 1979, 46, (182), 111-23
75. On Measuring the Social Opportunity Cost of Permanent and Temporary Employment: Comment
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1979, 12, (4), 744-48
76. The Measurement of Consumers' Surplus in Practical Cost-Benefit Analysis
    Applied Economics, 1979, 11, (2), 139-46

1977

77. Choices Involving Risk: A Comment
    Economic Journal, 1977, 87, (347), 565-68

1972

78. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Withdrawal of Railway Services
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1972, 24, (1), 23-32

Chapters

2006

1. Human nature and sociality in economics
   Elsevier View citations