My research activity is split between interests in environmental and resource economics and applications of experimental economics. Within the former category, a good part of my recent work has focused on common property reource problems, and largely involves applications from differential game theory. Within the latter category, much of my work has involved applications to Industrial Organization. A particular emphasis of this work is on careful use of econometric techniques to study interesting laboratory phenomenon.
Recent publications include:
“Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?” (with John List), Journal of Econometrics 2007 forthcoming
“Supporting Cooperation in a Non-Cooperative Discrete-Time Common Property Resource” (with Stephen Polasky, Nori Tarui and Greg Ellis), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2007 forthcoming.
“Cooperation in the Commons” (with Stephen Polasky, Nori Tarui and Greg Ellis), Economic Theory 2006 29(1), 71-88.
“An Economic Model of Eco-Labeling,” Environmental Modelling and Assessment 2006 11(2), 131-143.
“What motivates membership in non-renewable resource cartels?: The case of OPEC” (with Stephen Polasky), Resource and Energy Economics November 2005 27(4), 321-342.
“Passenger Leaks and the Fate of Small Community Air Service” (with Owen R. Phillips, Lawrence R. Weatherford and Mitch Kunce, Economic Inquiry, October 2005 v43(4), pp. 785-794.
“Environmental Catastrophes and Non-Expected Utility Maximization: An Experimental Evaluation” (with Jason Shogren, Chad Settle and John List), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, September 2005 v 31(2), pp. 187-215.
“Betting on Extinction:
Endangered Species and Speculation” (with Erwin Bulte and Richard D. Horan),
Land Economics, 2003, pp.
460-471.
“Strategic Preemption in a Common-Property Resource: A Continuous Time Approach” (with Stephen Polasky), Environmental and Resource Economics 2002, pp. 255-278.
“Observing Trigger Strategies in Two-Person Non-Cooperative Games” (with Owen R. Phillips), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 2002, 685-716.
“Dynamic Learning in a Two-Person Experimental Game” (with Owen R. Phillips), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, September 2001, pp. 1305-1344.
“Non-renewable Resources with Switching Costs,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management July 2001, pp. 65-81.