Working Papers
ICES Working Papers are research papers written by our faculty, PhD students, and other scholars. The papers are in preliminary form and open to revision before publication in scholarly journals. Please contact authors directly regarding questions or to provide feedback. These papers are also available in the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database.
2023 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2023-04, Joy Buchanan and William Hickman, "Do People Trust Humans More Than ChatGPT?"
- ICES 2023-03, Cesar Martinelli and Ruolong Xiao, "Why Do People Protest? A Theory of Emotions, Public Policy and Political Unrest"
- ICES 2023-02, William Hickman, Berber Kramer, Johanna Mollerstrom and Greg Seymour, "Valuing Control Over Income and Time Use: A Field Experiment in Rwanda"
- ICES 2023-01, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Johan E. Eklund and Maurice Kugler, "Labor Market Regulations, Innovation and Technological Change"
2022 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2022-06, Maurice Kugler, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Wenjing Wang and James Witte, "Self-employment and Immigration: Opportunity vs. Necessity Entrepreneurship"
- ICES 2022-05, Kaleb Abreha, Jieun Choi, Woubet Kassa, Hyun Ju Kim and Maurice Kugler, "Mobile Data Access Expansion, Price Information Diffusion, and Firm Performance: Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008"
- ICES 2022-04, Cesar Martinelli and Naila Sebastian Esandi, "Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment"
- ICES 2022-03, Moumita Roy and Daniel Houser, "Identity, Leadership, and Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis"
- ICES 2022-02, Sixuan Chen, Yongmei Liu, Jianxin Wang, and Daniel Houser, “Honesty, Elections and Leadership"
- ICES 2022-01, David K. Levine and Cesar Martinelli, “Razor-Thin Elections"
2021 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2021-06, Yue Deng and Daniel Houser, “The Opioid Crisis and Secondary Markets: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment"
- ICES 2021-05, Arthur Dolgopolov and Cesar Martinelli, “Learning and Acyclicity in the Market Game"
- ICES 2021-04, Daniel Houser and Jian Song, “Non-exclusive Group Contests: An Experimental Analysis"
- ICES 2021-03, Daniel Houser and Jian Song, “Costly Waiting in Dynamic Contests Theory and Experiment"
- ICES 2021-02, Daniel Houser and Jian Song, “Asymmetric Shocks in Contests: Theory and Experiment”
- ICES 2021-01, Cynthia Boruchowicz, Cesar Martinelli, and Susan W. Parker, “Economic Consequences of Mass Migration: The Venezuelan Exodus in Peru”
2020 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2020-03, Daniel Houser and Yang Yang, “Learning Language: An Experiment”
- ICES 2020-02, Mikhail Freer and Cesar Martinelli, “An Algebraic Approach to Revealed Preference”
- ICES 2020-01 (updated version, please contact author for original draft), Cesar Martinelli, “Accountability and Grand Corruption”
2019 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2019-06, Saptarshi Ghosh, Nidhi Jian, Cesar Martinelli, and Jaideep Roy, “Swings, News, and Elections”
- ICES 2019-05, Arthur Dolgopolov, Daniel Houser, Cesar Martinelli, and Thomas Stratmann, “Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments”
- ICES 2019-04 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Daniel Houser and Jianxin Wang, “Business Drinking: Evidence from A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment"
- ICES 2019-03 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Cesar Martinelli, Jianxin Wang, and Weiwei Zheng, “Competition with Indivisibilities and Few Traders”
- ICES 2019-02, Joy Buchanan and Daniel Houser, “If Wages Fell During a Recession”
- ICES 2019-01 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), César Martinelli and Marco Vega, “The Economic Legacy of General Velasco: Long-Term Consequences of Interventionism”
2018 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2018-05, Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli, “A Functional Approach to Revealed Preference”
- ICES 2018-04, David Austen-Smith and César Martinelli, “Optimal Exploration”
- ICES 2018-03 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), César Martinelli and Marco Vega, “The Monetary and Fiscal History of Peru, 1960-2017”
- ICES 2018-02 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Weiwei Tasch and Daniel Houser, “Social Preferences and Social Curiosity”
- ICES 2018-01, Mikhail Freer, Cesar Martinelli, and Siyu Wang, “Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study”
2017 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2017-04, Cesar Martinelli and Thomas R. Palfrey, “Communication and Information in Games of Collective Decision: A Survey of Experimental Results”
- ICES 2017-03, Shuwen Li, Xiandong Qin, and Daniel Houser, “Revisiting Gender Differences in Ultimatum Bargaining: Experimental Evidence from the US and China”
- ICES 2017-02, Jianxin Wang, Daniel Houser, and Hui Xu, “Do Females Always Generate Small Bubbles? Experimental Evidence from U.S. and China”
- ICES 2017-01, Joy A. Buchanan and Daniel Houser, “What if Wages Fell During a Recession?”
2016 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2016-05, Joy A. Buchanan, Matthew K. McMahon, Matthew Simpson, and Bart J. Wilson, “Smile, Dictator, You’re on Camera”
- ICES 2016-04, Mikhail Freer and Mariia Titova, “Matching with Quotas”
- ICES 2016-03, Luigi Butera and Daniel Houser, “Delegating Altruism: Toward an Understanding of Agency in Charitable Giving”
- ICES 2016-02, Cesar Martinelli and Mikhail Freer, “A Representation Theorem for General Revealed Preference”
- ICES 2016-01 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Cesar Martinelli and Mikhail Freer, “General Revealed Preferences”
2015 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2015-08, Cesar Martinelli, Susan W. Parker, Ana Cristina Pérez-Gea and Rodimiro Rodrigo, “Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment”
- ICES 2015-07, John Duggan and César Martinelli, “Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy”
- ICES 2015-06, John Duggan and César Martinelli, “The Political Economy of Dynamic Elections: A Survey and Some New Results”
- ICES 2015-05, Alejandro Castañeda and César Martinelli, “Political Economics of Broadcast Media”
- ICES 2015-04, Daniel Houser, John A. List, Marco Piovesan, Anya Samek, and Joachim Winter, “Dishonesty: From Parents to Children”
- ICES 2015-03, Siyu Wang and Daniel Houser, “Demanding or Deferring? The Economic Value of Communication with Attitude”
- ICES 2015-02 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Mikhail Freer and Mariia Titova, “Many to Many Matching Problem with Quotas”
- ICES 2015-01, Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjorn-Atle Reme, and Erik Ø. Sørensen, “Luck, Choice and Responsibility: An Experimental Study of Fairness Views”
2014 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2014-08, Mounir Karadja, Johanna Mollerstrom, and David Seim, “Richer (and Holier) than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution”
- ICES 2014-07, Rong Rong and Daniel Houser, “Exploring Network Behavior Using Cluster Analysis”
- ICES 2014-06, Daniel Houser, David M. Levy, Kail Padgitt, Sandra J. Peart, and Erte Xiao, “Raising the Price of Talk: An Experimental Analysis of Transparent Leadership”
- ICES 2014-05, Li Hao, Daniel Houser, Lei Mao, and Marie Claire Villeval, “A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers’ Attitudes Toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness”
- ICES 2014-04, Rong Rong and Daniel Houser, “Deception in Networks: A Laboratory Study”
- ICES 2014-03, Jingnan (Cecilia) Chen, Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan, “Beware Of Popular Kids Bearing Gifts: A Framed Field Experiment”
- ICES 2014-02, Joy Buchanan and Bart Wilson, “An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property”
- ICES 2014-01, Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser, “Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering”
2013 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2013-06, Susan Yeh and Daniel L. Chen, “The Construction of Morals”
- ICES 2013-05, Jingnan (Cecilia) Chen and Daniel Houser, “Broken Contracts and Hidden Partnerships: Theory and Experiment”
- ICES 2013-04 (updated version, please contact authors for original draft), Luigi Butera and Jeffrey Horn, “Good News, Bad News, and Social Image: The Market for Charitable Giving”
- ICES 2013-03, Marco Castillo, Gregory Leo, and Ragan Petrie, “Room Effects”
- ICES 2013-02, Li Hao and Daniel Houser, “Perceptions, Intentions, and Cheating”
- ICES 2013-01, Jingnan (Cecilia) Chen and Daniel Houser, “Promises and Lies: An Experiment on Detecting Deception”
2012 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2012-08, Jared Barton, Marco Castillo, and Ragan Petrie, “Going Negative: The Persuasive Effect of Tone and Information on Campaign Fundraising and Voter Turnout”
- ICES 2012-07, Marco Castillo, David Dickinson, and Ragan Petrie, “Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences”
- ICES 2012-06, Rong Rong and Daniel Houser, “Growing Stars: A Laboratory Analysis of Network Formation”
- ICES 2012-05, Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan, “Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children’s Behavior”
- ICES 2012-04, Marco Cipriani, Ana Fostel, and Daniel Houser, “Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment”
- ICES 2012-03, Sarah Jacobson and Ragan Petrie, “Favor Trading in Public Good Provision”
- ICES 2012-02, Jared Barton, Marco Castillo, and Ragan Petrie, “What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning”
- ICES 2012-01, Jason A. Aimone and Daniel Houser, “Harnessing the Benefits of Betrayal Aversion”
2011 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2011-11, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie, Maximo Torero, and Lise Vesterlund, “Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination”
- ICES 2011-10, Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan and Daniel Houser, “Social Approval, Competition and Cooperation”
- ICES 2011-09, Omar Al-Ubaydli, Daniel Houser, John Nye, Maria Pia Paganelli, and Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan, “The Causal Effect of Market Participation on Trust: An Experimental Investigation Using Randomized Control”
- ICES 2011-08, Marco Castillo and Michael Carter, “Behavioral Responses to Natural Disasters”
- ICES 2011-07, Omar Al-Ubaydli and Peter Boettke, “Markets as Economizers of Information: Field Experimental Examination of the Hayek Hypothesis”
- ICES 2011-06, Omar Al-Ubaydli, Garett Jones, and Jaap Weel, “Patience, Cognitive Skill and Coordination in the Repeated Stag Hunt”
- ICES 2011-05, Omar Al-Ubaydli and Min Sok Lee, “Can Tailored Communications Motivate Volunteers? A Field Experiment”
- ICES 2011-04, Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan and Daniel Houser, “Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity”
- ICES 2011-03, Li Hao and Daniel Houser, “Honest Lies”
- ICES 2011-02, Daniel Klein, Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan, Daniel Houser, and Gonzalo Schwarz, “Experiment on the Demand for Encompassment”
- ICES 2011-01, Daniel Houser, Stefan Vetter, and Joachim Winter, “Fairness and Cheating”
2010 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2010-04, Eskil Ullberg, “Coordinating Inventive and Innovative Decisions Through Markets with Prices: An Experimental Study of Patent Markets with Transparent Prices”
- ICES 2010-03, Eskil Ullberg, “From Personal to Impersonal Exchange in Ideas: An Experimental Study of Patent Markets with Transparent Prices”
- ICES 2010-02, Eskil Ullberg, “The Problem of Trading Patents in Organized Markets: A Dynamic Experimental Microeconomic System Model and Informal Price Theory”
- ICES 2010-01, Li Hao and Daniel Houser, “Getting It Right the First Time: Belief Elicitation with Novice Participants”
2009 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2009-06, Jian Li, Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser and P. Read Montague, “Neural Responses to Sanction Threats in Two-Party Economic Exchange”
- ICES 2009-05, Daniel Houser, Sandra Ludwig and Thomas Stratmann, “Does deceptive advertising reduce political participation? Theory and evidence”
- ICES 2009-04, Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao, “Inequality-Seeking Punishment”
- ICES 2009-03, Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser and Marco Piovesan, “Temptation at Work: A Field Experiment on Willpower and Productivity”
- ICES 2009-02, Omar Al-Ubaydli and Min Sok Lee, “Do You Reward and Punish In The Way You Think Others Expect You To?
- ICES 2009-01, Omar Al-Ubaydli, “How Large Looms the Ghost of the Past? State-Dependence vs. Heterogeneity in the Stag Hunt”
2008 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2008-04, Daniel Houser, Rebecca Morton and Thomas Stratmann, “Turned Off or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising, Information, and Voting”
- ICES 2008-03, Omar Al-Ubaydli and Min Sok Lee, “An Experimental Study of Asymmetric Reciprocity”
- ICES 2008-02, Jason A. Aimone and Daniel Houser, “What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You: A Laboratory Analysis of Betrayal Aversion”
- ICES 2008-01, Jason A. Aimone, “An Empirical Test of the Heckman and Rubinstein GED Mixed-Signal: Evidence from Prison”