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Working Papers

2024

1. Limits on Regret as a Tool for Incentive Design
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2021) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association (2025) (2025)

2021

3. The Experimenters' Dilemma: Inferential Preferences over Populations
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (23)
4. Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match
   Working Papers, Princeton University. Economics Department. View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies. (2020) View citations (1)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (1)
   Papers, arXiv.org (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match, American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2020

5. Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (36)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (36)

2018

6. Experimenting with the Transition Rule in Dynamic Games
   Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Experimenting with the transition rule in dynamic games, Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society (2019) View citations (10) (2019)
7. Goals, Constraints, and Public Assignment: A Field Study of the UEFA Champions League
   Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
8. Quantity Versus Quality: Experimenting with the Margins for Social Information
   Working Papers, Carleton College, Department of Economics

2017

9. The Times They are A-Changin'; But are we Changin' with 'em? Experiments on Dynamic Adverse Selection
   Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

2016

10. Regret in One-Shot and Recurrent Decisions: A Cautionary Tale
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)

2015

11. Dynamic Incentives and Markov Perfection: Putting the 'Conditional' in Conditional Cooperation
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (3)
12. Quality vs. Quantity in Information Transmission: Theory and Experimental Evidence
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (3)
13. The Effect of Incentives on Real Effort: Evidence from the Slider Task
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (4)

2009

14. A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities
    Working Papers, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2012) View citations (25) (2012)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23, (2), 784-814
   See also Working Paper Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games, University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series (2024) (2024)

2024

2. Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 38, (4), 131-54

2023

3. Goals, Constraints, and Transparently Fair Assignments: A Field Study of Randomization Design in the UEFA Champions League
   Management Science, 2023, 69, (6), 3474-3491 View citations (4)

2022

4. Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility
   American Economic Review, 2022, 112, (9), 2851-83 View citations (54)
5. Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match
   American Economic Review: Insights, 2022, 4, (2), 223-38 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match, Working Papers (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2021

6. The Times They Are A-Changing: Experimenting with Dynamic Adverse Selection
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13, (4), 1-22 View citations (6)

2020

7. Experimenting with incentives for information transmission: Quantity versus quality
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, (C), 314-331
8. Information Transmission under the Shadow of the Future: An Experiment
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020, 12, (4), 75-98 View citations (9)

2019

9. Experimenting with the transition rule in dynamic games
   Quantitative Economics, 2019, 10, (4), 1825-1849 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Experimenting with the Transition Rule in Dynamic Games, Working Paper (2018) View citations (2) (2018)

2017

10. A Proposal to Organize and Promote Replications
    American Economic Review, 2017, 107, (5), 41-45 View citations (31)
11. Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics
    American Economic Review, 2017, 107, (5), 27-31 View citations (41)
12. At-will relationships: How an option to walk away affects cooperation and efficiency
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2017, 102, (C), 487-507 View citations (24)

2016

13. Clearinghouses for two‐sided matching: An experimental study
    Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, (2), 449-482 View citations (52)
14. Communication with multiple senders: An experiment
    Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, (1), 1-36 View citations (46)
15. The slider task: an example of restricted inference on incentive effects
    Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2016, 2, (1), 1-12 View citations (73)

2012

16. A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities
    American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (5), 1773-1804 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities, Working Papers (2009) View citations (5) (2009)