Martin Dufwenberg

Karl & Stevie Eller Professor

Director: Economic Science Laboratory [ESL link] and Institute for Behavioral Economics [IBE link]

Department of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0108, USA

Tel 520-626-1540; Fax 520-621-8450; E-mail: martind@eller.arizona.edu

About me

My research uses game theory and experiments and explores topics in behavioral economics.
PhD Uppsala University 1995; Princeton University alumnus (*94)
Winner of the 2003 Royal Economic Society Prize (with Geir Asheim) [link] and of the Humboldt Foundation's Bessel Research Award 2002 [jpg]
Associate Editor: Experimental Economics; Games & Economic Behavior; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
I wrote dictionary-style texts on Game Theory (emphasizing psychology connections) [pdf] and on Psychological Games (for the New Palgrave) [pdf]
For more info, see my CV.

Selected publications

Participation (with Gary Charness), forthcoming, American Economic Review. [pdf]
Epiphany in the Game of 21 (with Ramya Sundaram & David Butler), forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. [pdf]
Bare Promises: An Experiment (with Gary Charness), forthcoming, Economics Letters. [pdf]
Dynamic Psychological Games (with Pierpaolo Battigalli), Journal of Economic Theory 144 (2009), 1-35. [pdf] [omitted materials]
Peter Bohm – Father of Field Experiments (with Glenn Harrison), Experimental Economics 11 (2008), 213-20. [pdf]
Review of P. Diamond & H. Vartiainen's (Eds.) Behavioral Economics & Its Applications, Journal of Economic Psychology 28 (2007), 622-24. [pdf]
Guilt in Games (with Pierpaolo Battigalli), American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 97 (2007), 170-76. [pdf]
Price Floors & Competition (with Uri Gneezy, Jacob Goeree & Rosemarie Nagel), Economic Theory 33 (2007), 211-24. [pdf]
Blowing the Whistle (with Jose Apesteguia & Reinhard Selten), Economic Theory 31 (2007), 143-66. [pdf]
Promises & Partnership (with Gary Charness), Econometrica 74 (2006), 1579-1601. [pdf]
Gender Composition in Teams (with Astri Muren), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 61 (2006), 50-54. [pdf]
Generosity, Anonymity, Gender (with Astri Muren), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 61 (2006), 42-49. [pdf]
Bubbles & Experience: An Experiment (with Tobias Lindqvist & Evan Moore), American Economic Review 95 (2005), 1731-37. [pdf]
A Theory of Sequential Reciprocity (with Georg Kirchsteiger). Games & Economic Behavior 47 (2004), 268-98. [pdf]
Admissibility & Common Belief (with Geir Asheim). Games & Economic Behavior 42 (2003), 208-34. [pdf]
Deductive Reasoning in Extensive Games (with Geir Asheim). Economic Journal 113 (2003), 305-25. [pdf]
Existence & Uniqueness of Maximal Reductions under Iterated Strict Dominance (with Mark Stegeman). Econometrica 70 (2002), 2007-23. [pdf]
Information Disclosure in Auctions: An Experiment (with Uri Gneezy). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 48 (2002), 431-44. [pdf]
Marital Investment, Time Consistency & Emotions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 48, (2002) 57-69. [pdf]
Social Norms & Moral Hazard (with Michael Lundholm). Economic Journal 111 (2001), 506-25. [pdf]
Review of Ariel Rubinstein's Modeling Bounded Rationality. Economics & Philosophy 17 (2001), 134-40. [pdf]
Direct vs Indirect Reciprocity: An Experiment (with Uri Gneezy, Werner Güth & Eric van Damme). Homo Oeconomicus 18 (2001), 19-30. [pdf]
Teaching Cournot without Derivatives. Journal of Economic Education 32 (2001), 36-40. [pdf]
The Consistency Principle for Set-Valued Solutions and a New Approach to Normative Game Theory (with Henk Norde, Hans Reijnierse & Stef Tijs). Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 54 (2001), 119-131. [pdf]
Ideal Equilibria in Non-Cooperative Multi-Criteria Games (with Mark Voorneveld & Sofia Grahn). Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 52 (2000), 65-77. [pdf]
Reciprocity & Wage Undercutting (with Georg Kirchsteiger). European Economic Review 44 (2000), 1069-78. [pdf]
Why Do You Hate Me? – On the Survival of Spite (with Werner Güth). Economics Letters 67 (2000), 147-52. [pdf]
Measuring Beliefs in an Experimental Lost Wallet Game (with Uri Gneezy). Games & Economic Behavior 30 (2000), 163-82. [pdf]
Price Competition & Market Concentration: An Experimental Study (with Uri Gneezy). International Journal of Industrial Organization 18 (2000), 7-22. [pdf]
Indirect Evolution vs Strategic Delegation: A Comparison of Two Methods for Explaining Economic Institutions (with Werner Güth). European Journal of Political Economy 15 (1999), 281-95. [pdf]
Some Relationships between Evolutionary Stability Criteria in Games. Economics Letters 57 (1997), 45-50. [pdf]
Inconsistencies in Extensive Games: Common Knowledge is Not the Issue (with Johan Lindén). Erkenntnis 45 (1996), 103-14. [pdf]

Some other work

The Framing of Games & the Psychology of Play (with Simon Gächter & Heike Hennig-Schmidt) [pdf]
Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium (with Paul Heidhues, Georg Kirchsteiger, Frank Riedel & Joel Sobel) [pdf]
Contracts & Communication (with Gary Charness) [pdf]
Hold-up: With a Vengeance (with Alec Smith & Matt Van Essen) [pdf]
Play Games to Learn Game Theory? An Experiment (with Todd Swarthout) [pdf]

Pictures

To the Econ Dept

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