Working Papers

"Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms" (with Bnaya Dreyfuss and Ori Heffetz), October 2019. Abstract 
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"Moral Preferences, Moral Constraints, and Self-Serving Biases,"  This is a digitally remastered (in June 2019, using visible, modern font) version of Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper No. 95-241. It is unchanged except for superficial alterations noted in the draft. The original August 1995 working paper is linked below. Abstract
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"An Experiment on Social Mislearning" (with Erik Eyster and Georg Weizsäcker), February 2018. Abstract
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 "Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments" (with Dan Benjamin and Don Moore), October 2017. Abstract
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"Naive Social Learning, Mislearning, and Unlearning" (with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch), November 2016. Abstract
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 "The Limits to Imitation in Rational Observational Learning" (with Erik Eyster), August 2012. Abstract
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"Rational Observational Learning" (with Erik Eyster), February 2011. Abstract
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"Rational and Naive Herding" (with Erik Eyster), June 2009. Abstract  This is a revised and altered version of the "Naive Herding" paper listed below.
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"Naive Herding" (with Erik Eyster), August 2008. Abstract
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"Addiction and Present-Biased Preferences" (with Ted O'Donoghue), October 2000. Abstract
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"Bargaining Structure, Fairness, and Efficiency," mimeo, June 1996. (Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper). Abstract
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"Fairness in Repeated Games," Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper No. 97-252, January 1997. Abstract
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"Moral Preferences, Moral Constraints, and Self-Serving Biases," Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper No. 95-241, June 2019. Abstract 
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"Focal Points in Pre-Game Communication," Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper No. 91-179, September 1991. Abstract
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"Reneging and Renegotiation," Berkeley Department of Economics Working Paper No. 91-163, April 1991. Abstract
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