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    • The Economist as Engineer: Game Theory, Experimentation, and Computation as Tools for Design Economics 

      Roth, Alvin E. (The Econometric Society, 2002)
      Economists have lately been called upon not only to analyze markets, but to design them. Market design involves a responsibility for detail, a need to deal with all of a market’s complications, not just its principle ...
    • Essays in Behavioral Economics 

      Peysakhovich, Alexander (2013-03-14)
      Essays in this dissertation cover three topics in behavioral economics: social preferences, ambiguity aversion and self-control. The first essay, based on work with Aurelie Ouss, studies the behavior of individuals making ...
    • Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness 

      Jordan, Jillian J.; Hoffman, Moshe H.; Nowak, Martin A.; Rand, David Gertler (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016)
      Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental ...