2003 Southern Economic Association Session, Friday, Nov. 21st, 1:15-3:00pm

Trust and Other-Regarding Behavior: Theory & Experiments

Chair:

Jamie Brown Kruse, Texas Tech University

Papers:

The Impact of Trembling Behavior in the Trust Game, Cary Deck, University of Arkansas and James Cox, University of Arizona

Incremental Trust and Trustworthiness, Rob Kurzban, University of Pennsylania, Mary Rigdon, Harvard University, and Bary Wilson, George Mason University

A Theory of Other-regarding Preferences with Rank Dependence, Jill Stowe, Duke University

The Cognitive Hierarchy Model and Complexity: Experimental Results, Jamie Brown Kruse and Nahil Al-Zoubi, Texas Tech University

Discussants: Elaine Catilina, Matt Parrett, Mark Van-Boening

Session 45C, ESA

    SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

    Positive reciprocity and intentions in trust games, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 52 (2): 267-275 (2003) [.pdf] [with K. McCabe and V. Smith]

    Efficiency wages in an experimental labor market, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(20): 13348-13351 (2002)

    Cooperation in single-play, two-person extensive form games between anonymously matched players, in R. Zwick and A. Rapoport (eds.) Experimental Business Research, Boston: Kluwer, pp. 49-68 (2002) [with K. McCabe and V. Smith]

    Theory of mind in two-person experiments, in L. Nadel (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science London: MacMillan, pp. 379-382 (2003)

    WORKING PAPERS [abstracts]

    Sustaining cooperation in trust games [.pdf] [with K. McCabe and V. Smith] [under review]

    Trust and reciprocity in incentive contracting

    Incremental trust and trustworthiness [with R. Kurzban and B. Wilson]

    Efficiency, wages, and institutional arrangement in experimental labor markets

    Experimental evaluation of firm level impact of mental accounting [with R. Dutta and K. Tomak]

    Finite automata in a repeated trust game [with D. Houser and K. McCabe]

    TEACHING

    Courses taught: Experimental Economics (Spring 2003), Conference Course: Experimental Economics (Fall 2002/Spring 2003), Introduction to Microeconomics (Fall 2002), Basic Economic Issues

    Evaluations for Basic Economic Issues: Presession 1999 (Arizona), Presession 2000 (Arizona)

    Evaluations for Experimental Economics: Spring 2003 (UT-Austin)

    LINKS

    My husband, Anthony Gillies, is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Harvard.

    Website on Experimental Economics

    Two beagle boys

    MINIUSA

    the perfect inferior good Spam Museum in Austin, MN


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