Research
Peer-reviewed publications, replication reports, current working papers, and public writing.
Publications
- Pyramid Schemes. 2026. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 241, 107398 (with Gönül Doğan, and Priscilla Man). (download PDF, 8.7 MB)
- Do Regulations Work? A Comprehensive Analysis of Price Limits and Trading Restrictions in Experimental Asset Markets with Deterministic and Stochastic Fundamental Values. 2020. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 59–84 (with Zhengyang Bao, Andreas Leibbrandt, and Carlos Oyarzun). (download PDF, 4.9 MB)
- Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment. 2020. Experimental Economics, 23, 468–492 (with Marco Faravelli and Carlos Pimienta). (download PDF, 547 KB)
- A Minimum Effort Coordination Game Experiment in Continuous Time. 2018. Experimental Economics, 21, 1–24 (with Ailin Leng, Lana Friesen, and Priscilla Man). (download PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Complexity and Biases. 2016. Experimental Economics, 19, 31–50 (with Marta Serra-Garcia). (download PDF, 528 KB)
- Complexity and Asset Legitimacy in Retirement Investment. 2016. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 60, 35–48 (with Alan Tse and Lana Friesen). (download PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Confusopoly: Competition and Obfuscation in Markets. 2016. Experimental Economics, 19, 299–316. (download PDF, 659 KB)
- Price Complexity and Buyer Confusion in Markets. 2015. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 111, 154–168. (download PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Buyer Confusion and Market Prices. 2011. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29, 14–22 (with Jan Potters). (download PDF, 529 KB)
Replication Reports
- A comment on “Firm Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban” [Cagé et al., AEJ: Economic Policy, 2024]. 2026. Institute for Replication (I4R) (with Andriyanto, Nicolas Eugster, and Guan-Jia Huang). (download PDF, 320 KB; replication package)
Working Papers
Team Gender Diversity in High-Stake Competitions (with Redzo Mujcic). (download PDF)
No Pain, No Gain: An Experiment on Skill Accumulation (with Lana Friesen and Bhagya Gunawardena). Submitted. (download PDF)
Algorithmic Advice in Markets with Complex Goods (with Leo Bao and Ruize Sun). August 2026. (view on SSRN)
Works In Progress
Information Disclosure in Private-Value Auctions (with Xinghao Yao)
A continuous-time principal-agent game experiment (with Ailin Leng and Shuchen Zhao)
Public Writing
- Confusopoly: Why companies are motivated to deliberately confuse — Why product and price complexity can weaken competition, confuse consumers, and create difficult challenges for market regulation.