August 2023
VITA
R.
MARK ISAAC
PERSONAL
Date and Place
of Birth:
Addresses:
(850)224-1557
Department of
Economics (Office)
Bellamy Bldg.
(850)644-7081
EDUCATION
B.S.F.S., International Economics,
M.S., Social Science, California Institute
of Technology, June 1978.
Ph.D., Social Science, California
Institute of Technology, June 1981.
DISSERTATION
Title:
Essays on the Role of Information in Natural
Resource Exploration and
Development.
Date of Completion: July 1980.
Primary Advisor: Roger G. Noll
EXPERIENCE
John and Hallie Quinn Eminent Scholar and
Professor of Economics, Florida State University, July 2001 – present.
Chair, Economics Department, Florida State
University, 2012-2018.
Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona,
2022 - present
Head, Economics Department,
Professor of Economics ,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Economist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, July
1979-September 1979.
Consultant, Polinomics
Research Laboratories, June 1979-July 1979.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Division of
Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, September
1978-March 1979; October1979-June 1980.
Economist,
Graduate Research Assistant, Environmental
Quality Laboratory,
Research Assistant - Legislative Assistant
to U.S. Senator Dewey F. Bartlett, June 1973-July 1976 (employed part-time
during academic year).
BROAD
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Applied Microeconomic Theory
Regulation,
Industrial Organization, Market Behavior and Performance, Market Design, Energy Policy
Public Goods Provision and Valuation
Auction markets
Political Science
Public Policy
Committee Behavior
Experimental Methods in Economics and
Political Science
Economics and Theology
EDITORIAL
BOARDS, REVIEW BOARDS, and PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Co-editor, Special issue of Public Finance Review
Co-Editor,
Special Issue in Honor of Elinor Ostrom, Experimental
Economics
Member
of the Board of Editors, American
Economic Review, 1993 -1999.
Member of the Editorial Council, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,1994-1997.
Member of the Editorial Board, Experimental Economics, 1998 – present.
Member of the National Science Foundation
panel for the Economics Program, 2005-2007.
Treasurer, Economic Science Association,
1985 – 2012.
Member, Executive Board, Southern Economic
Association, 2002 – 2004.
Member, Nominating Committee, Southern
Economic Association, 2010.
Currently
Series Editor of Research in Experimental
Economics (Volume 22 in process). Volume Editor or Co-editor of Volume 4
(1991), Volume 5 (1993), Volume 6 (1996), Volume 7 (1999), Volume 8 (2001),
Volume 9 (2002), Volume 11 (2006), Volume 13 (2010), Volume 14 (2011), and
Volume 21 (2022).
INVITED
CONFERENCE and SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 2007- present
2019 Charles
Plott Symposium, Caltech
2013 Department
of Economics, North Carolina State University
2013 Social
Dilemmas Workshop, Cal Tech, 2013
2010 Social
Dilemmas Workshop, Rice University, 2010.
Conference in honor of Nobel Laureate Vernon
L. Smith’s 80th Birthday, University of Arizona, 2008.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS 2007- present
2008 Social
Dilemmas Workshop, 2008
Association of
Private Enterprise Education, 2008
Southern
Economic Association, 2008
Association of
Private Enterprise Education, 2009
Economic Science
Association World Meetings, 2009
Southern
Economic Association, 2009
Allied Social
Science Association Meetings, 2010
Association of
Private Enterprise Education, 2010
Economic Science
Association World Meetings, 2010
Southern
Economic Association, 2010
Association of
Private Enterprise Education, 2011
Economic Science
Association World Meetings, 2011
Allied Social
Science Association, 2012
Association for
the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture 2012
Southern
Economic Association, 2012
Association for
the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, 2013
Southern
Economic Association, 2013
North American
Meetings Economic Science Association 2014
Southern
Economic Association 2014
Public Choice
Society 2016
Public Choice
Society 2017
Charles Plott
Symposium (Cal Tech) 2019
Southeastern
Experimental Economics Retreat 2019
RESEARCH
Traditional Books (Not
including edited volumes)
The Allocation of Scarce Resources:
Experimental Economics and the Problem of Allocating Airport Slots,
co-authored with David Grether and Charles Plott. (Boulder, Co.: Westview
Press, 1989).
Risky Curves: On The Empirical
Failure of Expected Utility, co-authored
with Daniel Friedman, Duncan James, and Shyam Sunder (London: Routledge, 2014).
Paperback version issued 2017.
Current Research in Progress
N.B.: The
Florida State XS/FS experimental laboratory was closed from April – December in
2020 and for much of 2021.
Luke Boosey, R. Mark Isaac, and Abhijit Ramalingam, “Limiting the
Leader: Fairness Concerns and Opportunism in Team Production,” All sessions
completed. Paper is completed and in submission stage,
Sean
Collins, R. Mark Isaac, Duncan James, and Anastasia Semykina,
“Estimated Elicited Risk Preferences in the Presence of Bankruptcy
Constraints.” All sessions completed.
R. Mark Isaac, Carl Kitchens, and Thomas Frye, research on institutions
and land acquisition flipping models. Sessions in progress.
R. Mark Isaac, R. Vijay Krishna, and Rivin Perinchery, work on Bayesian
decision making in an extended Monty Hall problem. Sessions in progress.
Article Appearing in Refereed Monograph
Series 2004-present
R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, “Just
the Facts Ma’am: A Case Study of the Reversal of Corruption in the Los Angeles
Police Department,” (Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2013)
Articles Appearing in Refereed Journals 2004-present
Luke Boosey, R. Mark Isaac, and Abhijit
Ramalingam, “Limiting the Leader: Fairness Concerns and Opportunism in Team
Production,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 218: 209-244, 2024.
Philip Solimine and R. Mark Isaac, “Reputation and Market Structure In
Experimental Platforms,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205:528.-559,
2023.
Luke Boosey, R. Mark Isaac, Douglas Norton,
and Joseph Stinn, “Cooperation, Contributor Types, and Control Questions,” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental
Economics 85, 2020.
R. Mark Isaac,
Douglas A. Norton, and Svetlana Pevnitskaya, “A New Experimental Mechanism To
Investigate Polarized Demands For Public Goods: The Effects Of Censoring,” Experimental Economics 22: 585-609,
2019.
Paul E. Chambers, E. Glenn Dutcher,
and R. Mark Isaac, “Improving Public Good Provisions through Aid: An Experimental
Analysis of Aid Structures with Heterogeneous Agents,” Ecological Economics 146: 435-446, 2018.
Luke Boosey
and R. Mark Isaac, “Asymmetric
Network Monitoring and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments,” Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization 132A: 26-41, 2016.
R.
Mark Isaac, Carl Kitchens, and Javier E. Portillo, “Can Buyer ‘Mobility’ Reduce
Failures in Land Assembly?” Journal of
Urban Economics 95: 16-30, 2016.
R. Mark Isaac,
John P. Lightle, and Douglas A. Norton, “The Pay-What-You-Want Business Model:
Warm Glow Revenues and Endogenous Price Discrimination.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 57: 215-223, 2015.
R. Mark Isaac and
Douglas A. Norton, “The Parable of the Great Banquet: Insight from Laboratory
Experiments,” Faith and Economics No.
63, Spring 2014.
Sean M. Collins and R. Mark Isaac, “Holdout:
Existence, Information, and Contingent Contracting,” Journal of Law and Economics 55:793-814, 2012..
R.
Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, “The Role of Trust, Endogenous Institutions,
and the Possibility of Grace in Public Goods Provision,” Public Choice 156: 253-284, 2013..
Douglas A. Norton and R. Mark Isaac,
“Experts With a Conflict of Interest: A Source of Ambiguity?” Experimental Economics 15:260-277, 2012.
R. Mark Isaac, Svetlana Pevnitskaya, and
Kurt Schnier, “Individual behavior and Bidding Heterogeneity In Sealed Bid
Auctions When The Number of Bidders is Unknown,” Economic Inquiry 50:516-533, 2012.
T.K.
Ahn, R. Mark Isaac, and Timothy C. Salmon, “Rent Seeking in Groups,” International Journal of Industrial
Organization 29:116-125, 2011.
R. Mark Isaac, Svetlana Pevnitskaya, and
Timothy C. Salmon, “Do Preferences for Charitable Giving Help Auctioneers?” Experimental Economics 13: 14-44, 2010.
T.K. Ahn, R. Mark Isaac, and Timothy C.
Salmon, "Coming
and Going: Experiments on Endogenous Group Sizes for Excludable Public
Goods," Journal of Public Economics 93: 336-351, 2009.
T.K. Ahn, R. Mark Isaac, and Timothy C. Salmon, “Endogenous
Group Formation,” Journal of Public
Economic Theory 10: 171-194,
2008
R. Mark Isaac, Timothy C.
Salmon, and Arthur Zillante, “A Theory of Jump Bidding in
Ascending Auctions,” (with Tim Salmon and Arthur Zillante). Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization 62:
144-164, 2007.
Timothy C. Salmon and Arthur Zillante, “An
Experimental Test of Alternative Models of Bidding in Ascending Auctions,” International
Journal of Game Theory:
33:287-313, 2005.
R. Mark Isaac and Kurt
Schnier, “Silent Auctions in the Field and in the
Laboratory,” Economic Inquiry
43: 715-733, 2005.
Articles
in Scholarly Volumes 2004 – Present
R. Mark Isaac and James M. Walker, “A Thank You to
James Andreoni,” In Gary Charness and Mark A. Pingle, eds., The Art of Experimental
Economics: Top 20 Papers Reviewed. (Routledge, 2022). N.B. R. Mark
Isaac and James M. Walker, "Group Size Hypotheses of
Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Examination,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 103: 179-199 (1988) was chosen as
one of the top twenty papers in experimental economics to be reviewed in this
volume. James Andreoni was chosen as the reviewer, and the authors were
provided the opportunity to comment on the review.
R. Mark Isaac, review of “Rational Expectations and the Aggregation of Diverse Information in
Laboratory Securities Markets” by Charles R. Plott and Shyam Sunder. In Gary Charness and Mark A. Pingle, eds., The Art of Experimental
Economics: Top 20 Papers Reviewed.(Routledge, 2022).
Blake Dunkle, R. Mark Isaac, and Phil Solimine, “Lemons
Revisited: 30 Years After Lynch, Miller, Plott and Porter,” R. Mark Isaac and
Carl Kitchens,eds., Research in Experimental
Economics Volume 21: Experimental Law and Economics (Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Books, 2022).
Luke Boosey, R.
Mark Isaac, and Douglas A. Norton, “Passionate Providers and the Possibility of
Public Commitment,” in A. Botelho, ed., “WSPC Reference of Natural Resources
and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change” Volume 4: Experimental
Economics (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2015).
R.
Mark Isaac, “Markets and Justice,” in For
the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty, Anne Bradley and Art
Lindsley, eds. Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics.
2014. (Reprinted by Zondervan, 2015.)
R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A.
Norton, “Experiments With Public Goods: From Cooperation to Formation,” in R.
Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, eds. (Note: Kurt Schnier acted as special
editor for this paper) Research in
Experimental Economics, Volume 14: Charity With Choice (Bingley, U.K.:
Emerald Books, 2010).
R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A.
Norton, “Endogenous Production Technology in a Public Goods Enterprise,” in R.
Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, eds. (Note: Kurt Schnier acted as special
editor for this paper) Research in
Experimental Economics, Volume 14: Charity With Choice (Bingley, U.K.:
Emerald Books, 2010).
James C. Cox and R. Mark Isaac, “Procurement Contracting” in Charles R. Plott and Vernon L. Smith, eds., Handbook of Experimental Economics (Amsterdam: North Holland, 2008)
James C. Cox and R. Mark Isaac, “Experiments in Decentralized Monopoly Restraint ” in Charles R. Plott and Vernon L. Smith, eds., Handbook of Experimental Economics (Amsterdam: North Holland, 2008)
R. Mark Isaac and Kurt Schnier, “Sealed Bid Variations on the Silent Auction,” in R.
Mark Isaac and Douglas Davis, eds., Research in Experimental Economics, Vol.
11: Experiments Investigating Fundraising and Charitable Contributors,” (
R. Mark Isaac and Timothy C.
Salmon, “Revenue from the Saints, the Showoffs, and the Predators: Comparisons
of Auctions with Price Preference Values,” Research in Experimental
Economics, Vol. 11: Experiments Investigating Fundraising and Charitable
Contributors,” (
Non-refereed
Papers 2004- present
Review of Robert H. Nelson, The
New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental religion in Contemporary
America, Journal of Church and State, 2012.
Review of Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams, Experimental
Political Science and the Study of Causality, Public Choice, 2011.
R. Mark Isaac and Douglas A. Norton, “Rethinking Rome,” Presbyterian
Outlook, 2009.
All Other
Papers Prior to 2004 (oldest to newest)
"Cooperative Game Models of the
Influence of the Closed Rule in Three Person, Majority-Rule Committees: Theory
and Experiment," (with Charles Plott) in Game Theory and Politics, Peter Ordeshook,
ed., (New York: NYU Press, 1978).
"The Inherent Disadvantage of the
Presidential Party in Midterm
Congressional
Elections," (with Randall Calvert). Public
Choice 36, No. 1 141-146.
"Price Controls and the Behavior of
Auction Markets: An Experimental Examination," (with Charles Plott). American Economic Review 71, No.3:
448-459, June
1981.
"The
"Petroleum Price Controls When
Information is a Joint Product," Land
Economics 56, No. 2: 181-187, May 1980.
"Fuel Cost Adjustment Mechanisms and
the Regulated Utility Facing Uncertain Fuel Prices."
"The Allocation of Landing Rights by
Unanimity Among Competitors," (with David Grether and Charles Plott). American Economic Review: Papers and
Proceedings, May 1981.
"Demand Revealing Mechanisms for
Private Good Auctions," (with Robert Forsythe). In Research in Experimental Economics, Vol. II.,
"Public Goods Provision in an
Experimental Environment," (with Kenneth McCue and Charles Plott). Journal of Public Economics 26, 1985.
"Natural Monopoly and Contested
Markets: Some Experimental Results," (with Don Coursey and
"Divergent Expectations on Free
Riding: An Experimental Examination of Possible Explanations," (with James
Walker and Susan Thomas). Public Choice 43,
1984.
"The Effects of Market Organization
on Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade," (with Valerie Ramey and
"Market Contestability in the
Presence of (Sunk) Entry Costs," (with Don Coursey, Margaret Luke, and
"Laboratory Experimental Economics as
a Tool in Public Policy Analysis,"Social Science Journal,
July 1983.
"OCS Leasing and Auctions: Incentives
and the Performance of Alternative Bidding Institutions," (with James Cox
and
"In Search of the Winner's
Curse," (with James Cox). Economic
Inquiry 22: 579-592.
"In Search of Predatory
Pricing," (with
"Information and Conspiracy in
Sealed-Bid Auctions," (with James Walker). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 6: 139-159, 1985.
"In Search of the Winner's Curse:
Reply," (with James Cox). Economic
Inquiry 24: 517-520.
"Incentive Regulation: A Case Study
in the Use of Laboratory Experiments," (with James Cox). In Laboratory Market Research, Shane
Moriarity, ed. (Norman, OK.: Univ. of Oklahoma Center for Economic and
Management Research, 1986).
"Innovation and Property Rights in
Information: An Experimental Approach to Testing Hypotheses About R&D
Behavior," (with
"Remnants of Regulation." in
Gary Libecap, ed., Advances in the Study
of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth Vol. II. (Greenwich,
Conn.: JAI Press, 1988).
"Experimental Economics and
Experimental Psychology: Ever the Twain Shall Meet?" (with James Cox), in
A.J. and H.W. MacFadyen (eds.) Economic
Psychology: Intersection in Theory and Application (Amsterdam: North
Holland, 1986).
"Cooperative Institutions for
Information Sharing in the Oil Industry." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 14,1987.
"The Value of Information in Resource
Exploration: The Interaction of Strategic Plays and Institutional Rules." Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management 14, 1987.
"Mechanisms for Incentive Regulation:
Theory and Experiment," (with James C. Cox). RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn 1987.
"Group Size Hypotheses of Public
Goods Provision: An Experimental Examination" (with James M. Walker). Quarterly Journal of Economics 103:
179-199 (1988).
"Appropriability and Market Structure
in a Stochastic Invention Model," (with
"Communication and Free Riding
Behavior: The Voluntary Contributions Mechanism," (with James M. Walker). Economic Inquiry 26: October 1988.
"The Assurance Problem in a
Laboratory Market" (with James M. Walker and David Schmidtz).
Public Choice 62:217-236, 1989.
"On the Suboptimality of Public Goods
Provision: Further Experimental Evidence," (with James M. Walker). In Research in Experimental Economics, Vol. 4,
R. Mark Isaac, ed. (Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, Inc., 1991).
"Theories and Tests of Blind Bidding
in Sealed Bid Auctions," (with Robert Forsythe and Thomas Palfrey). RAND
Journal of Economics, Summer 1989.
"Costly Communication: An Experiment
in a Nested Public Goods Problem," (with James M. Walker), in Contemporary Laboratory Research in
Political Economy, Thomas Palfrey, ed., (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan
Press, 1991).
"Schumpeterian Competition in
Experimental Markets," (with
"Managing J. Pierrepont Finch: Should
He Be Given a PC?" (with David Pingry). Information and Management 21:269-277. (1991)
"Price Cap Regulation: A Case Study
of Some Pitfalls of Implementation." Journal
of Regulatory Economics.3:193-210 (June, 1991).
"Incentive Regulation and
Innovation," (with James C. Cox) in Research
in Experimental Economics, Volume 5, R. M. Isaac, ed., (Greenwich, Conn.:
JAI Press, Inc., 1993)
"Institutional Framing and
Perceptions of Fairness," (with Deborah Mathieu and Edward E. Zajac). Constitutional Political Economy 2:
329-370 (1991).
"An Experimental Investigation of the
Hahn-Noll Revenue Neutral Auction for Emissions Licenses," (with Robert
Franciosi, David Pingry, and Stanley Reynolds). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 24:1-24 (1993).
"Group Size and the Voluntary
Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence Utilizing Very Large
Groups," (with James M Walker and
"Stochastic Innovation and Product
Market Organization," (with
"Heterogenous Demand for Public
Goods: Effects on the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism," (with Joseph
Fisher, Jefffrey Schatzberg, and James M. Walker), Public Choice 85:249-266 (1995).
"
"Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
in Procurement Contracting," (with James C. Cox, Paula-Ann Cech, and David
Conn). Games and Economic Behavior 17:
147-176 (1996).
"The Scope for Laboratory Experiments
In Research on Marketable Pollution Permits," in Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management,
E.T. Loehman and D.M. Kilgour, eds.. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998).
"Asymmetric Benefits in the Voluntary
Contributions Mechanism," (with Dean Packard and Joe Bial), in R.M. Isaac,
ed., Research In Experimental Economics
Vol. 8 (
"Experiments with the Pivot Process
for Providing Public Goods," (with Greg Attiyeh
and Robert Franciosi), Public Choice 102:
95-114 (2000).
"Absolute and Relative Rewards for
Individuals in Team Production," (with David Dickinson), Managerial
and Decision Economics 19: 299-310 (1998).
"Nash as an Organizing Principle in
the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence," (with
James M. Walker), Experimental Economics,
v.1, No.3, 1999.
"Experimental Research on the EPA's
'Two Tier' System for Marketable Emissions Permits," (with Robert
Franciosi and Stanley S. Reynolds) in C. Holt and R.M. Isaac, eds., Research In Experimental Economics Vol.
7 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Inc., 1999).
"Just Who Are You Calling Risk
Averse?" (with Duncan James). Journal
of Risk and Uncertainty 20,2: 177-187, 2000.
"Asset Market Efficiency: The
Effects of Tournament Incentives for Individuals," (with Duncan James). American Economic Review 90: 995-1004,
2000.
"Robustness of the Incentive
Compatible Combinatorial Auction," (with Duncan James). Experimental Economics 3 (31-53), 2000.
"Experimental Economics Methods in
the Large Undergraduate Classroom: Practical Considerations," (with James
Walker and
“Two or Four Firms: Does It Matter,”
(with
“Boundaries of the Tournament Pricing
Effect in Asset Markets: Evidence From Experimental Markets,” (with Duncan
James). Southern Economic Journal 69: 936-951, 2003.
“Games: Voluntary Contributions” in The
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan, 2002.
Other Conference Papers Not Otherwise Appearing in
Print or Submitted to Journals
"The Pricing of the Electronic Funds
Transfer System," (with Robert Forsythe and David Walker). 1978 Meetings
of the Public Choice Society.
"Market Contestability in
Experiments: A Survey," (with Glenn Harrison). 1985
Modeling.
"Efficiency and Justice in the
Regulatory Process: A Program for Social Science Research" (with Edward E.
Zajac). Telecommunications Deregulation Forum of the Karl Eller Center for the
Study of the Private Market Economy,1986.
"Success and Failure of the Voluntary
Contributions Process: Some Evidence from Experimental Economics" (with
James M. Walker).
"Group Decision Support Systems and
Experimental Economics: An Interaction Waiting to Happen," (with David
Pingry and Mary Anne Winniford). 1988 Fall Meetings of the Economic Science
Association.
"The Scope for Laboratory Economics
Experiments in the Industrial Organization of Health Care," Industrial
Organization of Health Care Conference, Boston University and U.S. Dept. of
Veterans' Affairs,
"Theology and Economics: A Dialogue
on Public Choice," (with Bradley K. Hansen), presented at the 1994 Public
Choice Society meetings in
"Is There a Confessional
Economics?" (with Bradley K. Hansen), presented at the annual convention
of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV., April 1996.
"Learning to Play Dominant
Strategies." Presented at the 1996 Alumni
"Explaining Efficiency in the
Incentive Compatible Combinatorial Auction," (with Duncan James).
Presented (by Duncan James) at the Fall 1997 Economic Science Association
Meetings,
"A Theory of Risk Aversion"
(with Duncan James). Presented by Isaac and James at the Spring 1999 PCS/ESA
Meetings,
“Mancur Olson And The Question Of Group Size: His Influence On Experimental Research In Public Goods,” presented to a special session in honor of Mancur Olson at the 2002 Public Choice Society Meetings.
“Four Thoughts on
Experiments in an Economics Curriculum”. Presented at the conference of the
Association of Private Enterprise Education,
“A New Technology
to Run an Asset Market in the Classroom,” (with Mark Keightley). Presented by
Keightley at the 2005 meetings of the Southern Economic Association,
Research Reports
"The Relationship Between Crude Oil
Price Controls and Refined Product Prices," Analysis Memorandum
AM/EI/78-16, Office of Energy Industry Analysis, Energy Information
Administration,
"Caltech Environmental Quality
Laboratory Sulfate Project": Appendices detailing the impacts of federal
petroleum and natural gas price controls on air pollution control strategies in
"Alternatives to Rate of Return
Regulation," (with M. Block, J. Cox, D. Pingry, S. Rassenti,
V. Smith). Presented to the Arizona Corporation Commission February 1985.
"Marketable Acid Rain Emissions
Permits: An Investigation of Revenue Neutral Auctions," (with Robert
Franciosi, David Pingry, and Stanley Reynolds). Presented to the
"Extension of Research Into
Marketable Emissions Permits," (with Robert Franciosi, David E. Pingry,
and Stanley S. Reynolds). Presented to
Misc. Papers and Reports
"Cheap Fuel, Cleaner Air and the
"Competition and Pricing in the
Book Reviews: Journal of Economic Literature (2), Energy
Journal, Information Economics and Policy, Economica,
Public Choice, Journal of Church and State
CURRENT SPECIFIC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Factors influencing public goods provision
Factors influencing group formation
Charity Auctions, silent auctions and price reference auctions
Incentive-compatible mechanisms
Combinatorial auctions
Influence of the number of firms on market
performance
Auctions for pollution permits
Institutional framing and perceptions of
fairness
Integration of theology and economics
Mechanism design for public policy
Economics of compassion
Asset markets and tournament contracts
Risk aversion in the laboratory and in the
field
Jump bidding
GRANTS AND RESEARCH CONTRACTS
1982, Federal Trade Commission:
"Empirical Investigation of Antitrust Issues Using Laboratory
Experiments," (with
1983, National Science Foundation:
"Experimental Studies of Private Market and Non-Market Resource Allocation
Mechanisms," (with James M. Walker).
1984, Review of Utility Regulation for the
Arizona Corporation Commission (Michael Block and
1985, Summer Mentorship Research Award
from the
1986, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation:
"Frontiers in Experimental Economics," (with
1986, National Science Foundation:
"Experimental Tests of Theoretical Models for Cooperative and
Non-Cooperative Behavior: Private and Public Goods Markets,"
(collaborative with a grant to James M. Walker).
1986, RAND Corporation: "Incentive
Procurement Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment," (with David Conn and James
Cox).
1987, Riley, Carlock, and Applewhite:
"The Gasoline Industry in
1989, National Science Foundation,
"Collaborative (with James M. Walker and
1990, Martin-Marietta (
1991, Martin-Marietta (
1997, Western States Petroleum Council, An
Update of the 1987 report of gasoline prices in
1998, National Science Foundation,
"Mutual Fund Compensation and Financial Intermediation" (with Duncan
James).
2005, National Science Foundation, “An
Experimental Investigation of Endogenous Group Formation for Public Goods
Provision and Risk-Sharing,” (with T.K. Ahn, Kislaya
Prasad, and Tim Salmon).
2007, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Support
for Pre-doctoral fellow.
2008, State of
2012, Institute for Faith, Work, and
Economics
2014, PI Faculty Advisor for Douglas
Norton dissertation fellowship, Science of Philanthropy
2023, Co-PI with Carl Kicthens,
Charles G. Koch Foundation, Neighborhood Tipping
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Freshman Colloquium
Principles Micro/Macro and Macro (Honors)
Intermediate Micro (Regular, Honors,
Business)
Upperclass Level
Electives (Experimental Economics, Industrial
Organization,
Regulation, Social Choice, Economics of Compassion, The Economics of
Sustainability)
Graduate Core (Experimental Economics, Microtheory for
Business Students, PhD Microtheory)
Graduate Seminars and Workshops
(Experimental Economics,
Industrial Organization, Regulation,
Information, Public Goods).
MBA Course on Topical Industrial
Organization and Market Design
At Florida State University: Numerous
Undergraduate Honors, Independent Study and Graduate Independent Study Courses, on topics
including market power in cap-and-trade markets,
Ethics and Copyrights, High Speed
Rail, The News Media as a Control on Corruption
NOTABLE SERVICE OUTSIDE OF THE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY of ARIZONA --- through 2001
(All below are past memberships)
Member, and then Chair, of the University
Promotion and Tenure Committee
Member, and Chair, of the College Faculty
Status Committee
Speaker for the Vice Provost's Office on
the promotion and tenure process
Member of an ad-hoc committee for the Vice
Provost's Office on possible
changes
in University P&T policy
Member of the University Committee on
General Education
Member of the University Advisory
Committee on the PEEL grant (educational
strategies for students with disabilities)
Member of the University Committee on Academic
Freedom and Tenure
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of
the Goldwater Institute
FLORIDA STATE --- 2001 and subsequent
Member, Review Committee for College of
Social Sciences and Public Policy applications for the Social Sciences Scholars
program (2018).
Selection Committee Member for the Robert
O. Lawton Award (2016)
Faculty Fellow, Sigma Phi Epsilon
fraternity,
Past
Member of the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure
Past Member of the College of Social
Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee
Past member FSU Steering Committee on the
Institute for Energy System, Economics, and Sustainability
Currently, Treasurer of the Experimental
Social Science Cluster (a Pathways cluster)
Past Member, College of Social Science
Dean’s Search Committee and Council of Research and Creativity.
Executive Committee Member, Charles
Hilton Center
Advisory Committee, Institute for
Successful Longevity
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY
For 20 + years, Treasurer of the Economic
Science Association (through 2012)
Currently, Member of the editorial board
of Experimental Economics and of the Journal of the Economic Science Association.
Past Member, editorial board, American Economic Review
Co-Organizer
of the 2019 Southeastern Regional Experimental Economics Retreat, May 2019
Co-Program Organizer for the 2019 “Charles Plott 80th Brthday Symposium”, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, March 2019.
Co-organizer
of the 2014 North American ESA Conference
Co-organizer (with Douglas A. Norton) of the
business plan for a non-profit student/faculty coffee house at the Florida
State University Presbyterian University Center.
Currently serving Elder at the First
Presbyterian Church of Havana, Florida.
FACULTY AWARDS
Burning
Spear Guardian of the Flame Award – 2012
OTHER HONORS AND AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1976.
Earl C. Anthony Fellowship, 1976-1977.
The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Fellowship, 1978-1979.