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Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process, Economic Journal, forthcoming,
    with Sean Crockett and Vernon L. Smith.

Language Games of Reciprocity. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
   
forthcoming.

Fixed Revenue Auctions, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming, with Cary A. Deck.

Incremental Approaches to Establishing Trust, Experimental  Economics, forthcoming,
    with Robert Kurzban and Mary Rigdon.

Experimental Gasoline Markets, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
   
forthcoming, with Cary A. Deck.

“Economics Works! Experiments in High School Classrooms, Journal of Private
     Enterprise
, forthcoming, with Stephen L. Jackstadt and Paul Johnson.

Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange
    in Long-distance Trade, American Economic Review, 98(3), June, 2008, with Erik O.
    Kimbrough and Vernon L. Smith.  An appendix summarizing each economy is
    available here.

An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles, Journal of Economic Behavior   
    and Organization
, 66(3), June, 2008, with Benjamin Powell.

Strategic Buyers, Horizontal Mergers and Synergies: An Experimental Investigation,
   
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26(3), May, 2008, with Douglas D.
    Davis
.

Second Chance Offers vs. Sequential Auctions: Theory and Behavior, Economic
    Theory
, 34(1), January, 2008,
with Timothy C. Salmon.

An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Automated Mitigation Procedures on
     Investment and Prices in Wholesale Electricity Markets,
 Journal of Regulatory
     Economics
, 31(3), June, 2007,
with Lynne Kiesling.

Building a Market: From Personal to Impersonal Exchange, in Moral Markets: The
     Critical Role of Values in the Economy
, P. Zak (ed.), Princeton U Press, 2008, with
     Erik Kimbrough and Vernon L. Smith.

Experimental Economics and Antitrust: What Can We Learn from Laboratory Markets?
   
Antitrust, 21(2), Spring, 2007. (Invited by the editors.) Unabridged, unpublished
     version.

“Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe, Journal of Institutional
     and Theoretical Economics
, 163, March, 2007, with Anil Caliskan, David Porter,
     Stephen Rassenti, and Vernon L. Smith.

“Raising Revenues for Charity: Auctions versus Lotteries, in Research in Experimental
    Economics
, Vol. 11, D.D. Davis and R. M. Isaac (Eds.), JAI (Elsevier Science):
    2006, with Douglas D. Davis, Laura Razzolini, and Robert Reilly. 

“Equilibrium Price Dispersion, Mergers and Synergies: An Experimental Investigation of
    Differentiated Product Competition, International Journal of the Economics of
    Business
, 13(2), July, 2006,
with Douglas D. Davis.

Tracking Customer Search to Price Discriminate, Economic Inquiry, 44(2), April, 2006,
   
with Cary A. Deck.

Verifiable Offers and the Relationship Between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations,
  
Economic Journal, 115, October, 2005,
with Charles J. Thomas.
  
This is an electronic version of an article published in Royal Economic Society. Complete citation
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“Teaching E-commerce through the Use of Real-time Interactive Laboratory
    Experiments,
International Journal of Information and Operations Management
    Education
, 1(1), 2005, with Roumen Vragov.

A
uction Markets for Evaluations,

   
Southern Economic Journal, 72(1), July, 2005, with Cary A. Deck.

Market Power and Price Movements over the Business Cycle,
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 53(2), June, 2005, with Stanley Reynolds.
   
(Lead Article.)

Differentiated Product Competition and the Antitrust Logit Model,
   
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 57(1), May, 2005, with Douglas D.
    Davis.

Full Serve, No Choice, New York Times, Op-Ed, October 3, 2004, with Thomas Firey.

How Applicable is the Dominant Firm Model of Price Leadership?
    Experimental  Economics, 7(3), October, 2004, with Stephen J. Rassenti.

Economics at the Pump, Regulation, 27(1), Spring 2004, with Cary A. Deck.

“Cost Structures and Nash Play in Repeated Cournot Games,
   
Experimental  Economics, 6(2), October, 2003, with Douglas D. Davis and Robert J.
    Reilly.

Automated Pricing Rules in Electronic Posted Offer Markets,
   
Economic Inquiry, 41(2), April, 2003,
with Cary A. Deck.

Discriminatory Price Auctions in Electricity Markets,
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 23(2), March, 2003, with Stephen J. Rassenti and
    Vernon L. Smith. (Lead Article.)

Controlling Market Power and Price Spikes in Electricity Networks: Demand-Side  
    Bidding,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(5), March 4, 2003,
    with Stephen J. Rassenti and Vernon L. Smith. (Cover article.)

“Bidding Strategies in Single-unit Auctions, in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science,
    L. Nadel (ed.), Macmillan Publishers (Nature Publishing Group): 2003.

The Effectiveness of Low Price Matching in Mitigating the Competitive Pressure of Low
    Friction Electronic Markets,
Electronic Commerce Research, 2(4), November, 2002,
    with
Cary A. Deck.

Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium Predictions as a Means of Organizing Behavior in
    Posted-Offer Market Experiments,
in Handbook of Experimental Economics Results,
    Elsevier Science, forthcoming, C. Plott and V. L. Smith (Eds.), with
Douglas D. Davis.

“Experimental Methods and Antitrust Policy,
    in Research in Experimental Economics: Experiments Investigating Market Power,
    Vol. 9, R. M. Isaac and C. Holt (Eds.), JAI (Elsevier Science): 2002, with Douglas D.
     Davis
.

A Comparison of Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations,
   The RAND Journal of Economics, 33(1), Spring, 2002, with Charles J. Thomas.

Collusion in Procurement Auctions: An Experimental Examination,
    Economic Inquiry, 40(2), April, 2002, with
Douglas D. Davis.

Using Experiments to Inform the Privatization/Deregulation Movement in Electricity,
    The Cato Journal, 21(3),
Winter, 2002, with Stephen J. Rassenti and Vernon L. Smith.

Turning Off the Lights,
    Regulation, 24(3), Fall, 2001, with Stephen J. Rassenti and Vernon L. Smith.

Incremental Commitment and Reciprocity in a Real Time Public Goods Game,
   
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(12), December 2001, with Robert O.
    Kurzban, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon L. Smith.

Interactions of Automated Pricing Algorithms: An Experimental Investigation,
    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2000 (EC-00),
    October, 2000, with Cary A. Deck. 17% acceptance rate.

Firm-Specific Cost Savings and Market Power,
    Economic Theory, 16(3), November, 2000, with
Douglas D. Davis.
 

Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition, Demand Uncertainty, and Asymmetric Outcomes,
    Journal of Economic Theory, 92(1), May, 2000, with Stanley S. Reynolds. 

Structural Features that Contribute to Market Power in Electric Power Networks,
    Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, 2000,
    with Stephen J. Rassenti and Vernon L. Smith. Received Best Paper Nomination.  

What Collusion? Unilateral Market Power as a Catalyst for Countercyclical Markups,
    Experimental  Economics, 1(2), September, 1998.

Menu Costs and Nominal Price Friction: An Experimental Examination,
   
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
35(3), April 1998. 

 

Web Publication

Design Comparisons for Procurement Systems,
    SIGecom Exchanges, 1.1, Summer 2000, with Charles J. Thomas.

 

 

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