Research Papers by E. Elisabet Rutström

College of Business Administration, University of Central  Florida

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In Print or Forthcoming

"Social Preferences in the Face of Regulatory Change", (with J. Gregory George and Laurie T. Johnson), Experimental Methods, Environmental Economics, (Cherry, T. Ed.), Chapter 16, forthcoming 2007. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Lost in State Space: Are Preferences Stable?" (With Glenn W. Harrison and Morten I. Lau), forthcoming International Economic Review, 2007. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Estimating Risk Attitudes in Denmark", (with Glenn W. Harrison and Morten I. Lau), forthcoming Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Measurement with Experimental Controls", (with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and Melayne M. McInnes), forthcoming M. Boumans (ed.), Measurement in Economics: A Handbook, Academic Press, (San Diego: Elsevier). Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Policy Making and Rent-Dissipation: An Experimental Test," with David S. Bullock, Forthcoming: Experimental Economics, 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Valuation using Multiple Price List format", (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison, and Morten I. Lau),  Applied Economics, 39(6), April 2007, pp. 675-682. . Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Elicitation Using Multiple Price List formats", with Steffen Anderson, Glenn W. Harrison and Morten I. Lau, 2005. Forthcoming Experimental Economics, 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab.

"Income Distributional Preferences: The Role of History" with Laurie T. Johnson and J. Gregory George, Unpublished Manuscript, October 2004. Forthcoming: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab.

"Benefit Packages and Individual Behavior: Choices Over Discrete Goods with Multiple Attributes," with Tanja F. Blackstone, Mark Van Boening, and Michael McKee, Forthcoming: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2006.

"Experimental Evidence of Hypothetical Bias in Value Elicitation Methods", with Glenn W. Harrison, forthcoming in C.R. Plott and V.L. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, forthcoming 2008. Also available as Working Paper B-00-05, The Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, 2001.  Working Paper available in pdf.

"Eliciting Subjective Beliefs about Mortality Risk Orderings, " with Glenn W. Harrison, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2006, 33: 325-346. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab.

"Temporal Stability of Estimates of Risk Aversion", with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and Melayne M. McInnes, Applied Financial Economics Letters, Volume 1, 2005, pp. 31-35. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab.

"Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects - Comment", with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and Melayne M. McInnes, American Economic Review, Volume 95, no. 3, 2005,  pp. 897-901. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab.

"Experimental Methods and Elicitation of Values," with Glenn W. Harrison and Ron M. Harstad, Experimental Economics, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 123 - 140. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"Bargaining Behavior, Demographics, and Nationality: A Reconsideration of the Experimental Evidence," with Anabela Bothelo, Glenn W. Harrison and Marc Hirsch, Field Experiments in Economics, Carpenter, Jeffrey; Harrison, Glenn W., and List, John (eds), JAI Press, Greenwhich, CT, Volume 10. 2005, pp. 337-372. Working Paper 03-15, Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences Using Field Experiments: Some Methodological Issues", with Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, and Melonie B. Sullivan, Field Experiments in Economics, Carpenter, Jeffrey, Harrison, Glenn W., and List, John (eds), JAI Press, Greenwhich, CT, Volume 10. 2005, pp. 125-218. Working Paper 03-16, Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"Doing It Both Ways -- Experimental Practice and Heuristic Context", (with Glenn W. Harrison), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(3), 2001, 413-414.. Working paper in pdf. 

"Sequential Bargaining Games", (with Glenn W. Harrison), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: The Nature Publishing Group, McMillan Publishers Ltd., 2002. Working paper in pdf. 

"Decision Making Costs and Problem Solving Performance", (with Tanga M. McDaniel), Experimental Economics,  2001. vol 4, no. 2, pp. 145-161.  Working Paper in Pdf. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"A Free Trade Agreement Between the EU and a Representative Arab Mediterranean Country", with Thomas F. Rutherford and David Tarr, forthcoming in Bernard Hoekman and Jamal Zarrouk (eds.), Catching Up with the Competition: Trade Policy Challenges and Options for the Middle East and North Africa, The University of Michigan Press, 1999. Working Paper in pdf.

"Entitlements and Fairness: An Experimental Study of Distributive Preferences", with Melonie B. Williams, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 43, 75-89, 2000. Working Paper in pdf. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"Home-grown Values and Incentive Compatible Auction Design", International Journal of Game Theory, 27(3), 1998, pp 427-441. Working paper version in pdf: "Working Paper in pdf". Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"A Quantification of Lobbying Benefits with an Application to the Common Agricultural Policy", (with Willie J. Redmond), Journal of Policy Modelling, 19(6), pp 635-659, 1997.

"Morocco's Free Trade Agreement with the EU: A Quantitative Assessment", with Thomas F. Rutherford and David Tarr, Economic Modelling, 14 (2), pp 237-269, April 1997.

"Homegrown Values and Hypothetical Surveys: Is the Dichotomous Choice Approach Incentive Compatible?", (with Ronald G. Cummings and Glenn W. Harrison), American Economic Review, v. 85 (1), March 1995, pp. 260-266.

"Political Preference Functions, Trade Wars, and Trade Negotiations in Agriculture", Empirical Economics, 20, 1995, pp 49-73.

"L'accord de libre-échange entre le Maroc et la CEE: une évaluation quantitative", (with Thomas F. Rutherford and David Tarr), Revue d'Économie du Développement, 2, 1994, pp 97-133.

"Statistical Bias Functions and Informative Hypothetical Surveys", (with McKinley Blackburn and Glenn W. Harrison), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76, December 1994, pp. 1084-1088.

"Trade Wars, Trade Negotiations and Applied Game Theory" (with Glenn W. Harrison), Economic Journal, v. 101, May 1991, pp. 420-435.

"Costs of Agricultural Trade Wars" (with Glenn W. Harrison and Randall Wigle),in A.B. Stoeckel, D. Vincent, and S. Cuthbertson (eds.), Macroeconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989).

"Experimental Evaluation of Institutions of Monopoly Restraint" (with Glenn W. Harrison and Michael McKee) in L. Green and J.H. Kagel (eds.), Advances in Behavioral Economics vol 2, (Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1989).

"Coasian Solutions to the Externality Problem in Experimental Markets" (with Glenn W. Harrison, Elizabeth Hoffman and Matthew L. Spitzer), Economic Journal, v. 97, June 1987, pp. 388-402.

"The Effect of Manufacturing Sector Protection in ASEAN and Australia: A General Equilibrium Analysis" (with Glenn W. Harrison), in C. Findlay and R. Garnaut (eds.), The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection: Experiences of ASEAN and Australia (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1987).

Other Publications and Reports

"A Web-Lab to Enhance Social Science Infrastructure", with David Willer, Linda B. Karr, Mamadi Corra and Dudley Girard, Journal of Knowledge Management, MCB University Press, vol. 3, no. 4, 1999. Working Paper in pdf.

Instructor's Manual to Stiglitz; Economics, W.W. Norton & Company, (with Glenn W. Harrison) 1993.

Measuring Employment Effects in the Regulatory Process: Recommendations and Background Study, with John Addison, Nancy Bord, and Glenn W. Harrison, National Commission for Employment Policy, Special Report #34, January 1993.

The Political Economy of Protectionism in Indonesia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis. Economic Research Institut (EFI), Stockholm School of Economics, June 1991.

"Exporttillväxt - En Förutsättning för ökad Import" [Export Growth - A Prerequisite for Import Expansion] (with Jörgen Appelgren) in E. Berglöf et. al.(eds.), Kina -- Världens Största Utvecklingsland (Stockholm: Economic Research Institute (EFI), 1981). [in swedish]

"Utrikeshandelns Utveckling" [Development of Foreign Trade] (with Jörgen Appelgren and Per-Anders Ovin) in E. Berglöf et. al. (eds.), Kina -- Världens Största Utvecklingsland [China - The World's Largest Developing Country] (Stockholm: Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm School of Economics, 1981). [in swedish]

Working Papers

"Heterogeneity and the Characterization of Risk Attitudes", with Glenn W. Harrison and Nathaniel T. Wilcox, January 2004.

"Does Everyone Have Quasi-Hyperbolic Preferences?" with Maribeth Coller and Glenn W. Harrison, December 2005.

"Preferences Over Social Risk", with Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Igel Lau, and Marcela Tarazona†, July 2005.

"Characterizing the Entrepreneur using Field Experiments", (with Julie Elston and Glenn W. Harrison), October 2005.

"Social Norms and Social Choice", (with Anabela Botelho, Ligia Costa Pinto and Glenn W. Harrison), June 2005

"Individual Choice and Risk Aversion in the Laboratory: A Reconsideration", with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and Melayne McInnes, May 2005..

"Are You Risk Averse over Other Peoples’ Money?", (with Sujoy Chakravarty, Glenn W. Harrison, Ernan E. Haruvy), September 2005.

"Testing Static Game Theory with Dynamic Experiments: A Case Study of Public Goods", (with Anabela Botelho, Ligia Costa Pinto and Glenn W. Harrison), August 2005.

"Eliciting Beliefs in the Laboratory", (with Steffen Andersen, John Fountain, and Glenn W. Harrison), June 2006. Presented at FUR XII.

"Preference Heterogeneity in Experiments: Comparing the Lab and the Field", (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison, and Morten I. Lau), June 2006.

"Risk Attitudes, Randomization to Treatments, and Self-Selection into Experiments", (with Glenn W. Harrison and Morten I. Lau), April 2005.

"Discounting in Developing Countries - A Pilot Study in Timor Leste", (with Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Ligia M. Pinto, and Paula Veiga), August 2005.

"Characterizing Cognitive Production Frontiers", (with Glenn W. Harrison and Richard Hofler), February 2006.

"Experimental Economics, Entrepreneurs and the Entry Decision", (with Glenn W. Harrison and Julie A. Elston), May 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Dynamic Consistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment", (with Glenn W. Harrison and Morten Igel Lau), August 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Stated Beliefs Versus Empirical Beliefs: A Methodological Inquiry and Experimental Test", with Nathaniel T. Wilcox,  August 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Expected Utility Theory and Prospect Theory: A Wedding and a Decent Funeral", (with Glenn W. Harrison), August 2006.Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Eliciting Time and Risk Preferences" (With Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Morten I. Lau), April 2006. Supporting materials and working paper available in ExLab

"Sparing the Rod does not Spoil the Child: An Experimental Study of Incentive Effects", Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, May 2002. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"On Reciprocity and Psychological Equilibria in an Investment Game Experiment", (with William G. Morrison), Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, April 2002. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"The Effects of Retail Deregulation on South Carolina Electricity Markets: A critical review of previous studies", (with Mary Hastings), August 1997

"Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics; An Experimental Test with Incentive Compatible Belief Elicitation", with Tanga McDaniel and Melonie Williams, Unpublished Manuscript, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, March 1994. Supporting materials available in ExLab.

"Morocco's Free Trade Agreement with the European Community; A Quantitative Assessment", (with Thomas F. Rutherford and David Tarr) World Bank Working Papers, WPS 1173, September 1993.