Alex Brown's Research Page

Professor Alexander Brown received his Ph.D. in 2008 from California Institute of Technology. He joined the Department of Economics in the same year.

Alex has a wide variety of research interests including experimental economics, behavioral economics, game theory, and industrial organization. His papers in experimental economics have been accepted for publication in Annals of Finance, Economic Inquiry, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Publications:

Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments with Colin F. Camerer and Zhikang Eric Chua. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming February 2009. (original version)

Collusion Facilitating and Collusion Breaking Power of Simultaneous Ascending Price and Descending Price Auctions with Charles R. Plott and Heidi J. Sullivan. Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

Behavior in a Simplified Stock Market: The Status Quo Bias, the Disposition Effect and the Ostrich Effect with John H. Kagel. Annals of Finance, forthcoming.

Economic Approaches to Modeling Self-Control with Colin F. Camerer. Forthcoming, chapter in Hassin, Ochsner, Trope (Eds.), Theories of Self-Control.

Investigating Psychology-Influenced Models in Lab, Field and Theory, Ph.D Dissertation, California Institute of Technology, 2008. (abstract)

Contact Information:

Surface-mail: Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4228

Phone: (979) 862-8084

Fax: (979) 847 - 8757