Brit Grosskopf's Research Page

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University.  My research focuses on using experimental methods to study economic problems.

Working Papers:

Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment," with Rajiv Sarin  [revised June 2007] (revision requested from the American Economic Review)

Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence from Two-Person Guessing Games with Rosemarie Nagel  [revised June 2007]

An Experiment on Case Based Decision Making, with Rajiv Sarin and Elizabeth Watson  [revised March 2008] (revision requested from Games and Economic Behavior)

Work in progress:

In Search for Bad Reputation - A Sequence of Experiments, with Rajiv Sarin

Reputation and Advice: Political Correctness in the Laboratory, with Rajiv Sarin

Merging Reinforcement and Directional Learning - A Generalized Model

When do People pay Attention to the Strategies of Others? The Case of Lottery Selection, with Max Bazerman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Simone Moran, Lorraine Idson and Dolly Chugh
 

Publications:

Simultaneous versus Sequential Public Good Provision and the Role of Refunds - An Experimental Study, with Jennifer Coats and Timothy Gronberg, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

If you were offered the Right of First Refusal, Should you Accept? An Investigation of Contract Design, with Alvin E. Roth, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.

The Two-Person Beauty Contest, with Rosemarie Nagel, Games and Economic Behavior, 62 (1), 2008, pp. 93 - 9.

Overcoming the Winner's Curse: An Adaptive Learning Perspective, with Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21(1), 2008, 15 - 27

On the Robustness of the Winner's Curse Phenomenon, with Max Bazerman and Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Theory and Decision, 63(4), 2007, pp. 389 - 418.

Foregone with the Wind: Indirect Payoff Information and its Implications for Choice, with Ido Erev and Eldad Yechiam, International Journal of Game Theory, 34 (2), 2006, pp. 285 - 302.

Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments, with Max Bazerman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Dolly Chugh, Lorraine Idson and Simone Moran, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 2004, pp. 159-172

Teaching Auction Strategy using Experiments Administered via the Internet, with John Asker, Carl N. McKinney, Muriel Niederle, Alvin Roth and Georg Weizsaecker, Journal of Economic Education, 35(4), 2004, pp. 330-342.

How Manipulable are Fairness Perceptions? The Effect of Additional Alternatives , with Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Research on Economic Inequality, 11, 2004, pp. 43 - 53.

Reinforcement and Directional Learning in the Ultimatum Game with Responder Competition, Experimental Economics, 6(2), 2003, pp. 141-158.

Happiness and Relative Payoffs - An Experimental Study, with Gary Charness, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45(3) , 2001, pp. 301-328

Contact Information:

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

Phone: (979) 845-7357

Fax: (979) 847 - 8757