John Kagel
University Chaired Professor of Applied Microeconomics
Economics
473A Arps Hall
614.292.4812
kagel@economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu
Education
B.A., Tufts University, Economics (1964)
M.P.I.A., University of Pittsburgh, Economic Development (1966)
M.S., Purdue University, Economics (1968)
Ph.D., Purdue University, Economics (1970)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Kagel specializes in industrial organization theory, auctions, experimental game theory, and experimental methods.
Selected Publications
"The Role of Context and Team Play in Cross-Game Learning," with David Cooper (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009 )
"Information Exchange in Group Decision Making: The Hidden Profile Problem Reconsidered," with J. Lightle and H. Arkes, (Management Science, 2009)
"Implementing Efficient Multi-Object Auction Institutions: An Experimental Study of the Performance of Boundedly Rational Agents," with Dan Levin (Games and Economic Behavior, 2009)
"Behavior in a Simplified Stock Market: The Status Quo Bias, the Disposition Effect and the Ostrich Effect," with Alex Brown (Annals of Finance, 2009)
"Almost Common Value Auctions: An Experiment," with Susan Rose (Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2008)
"Auctions: Experiments," with Dan Levin, in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, ed. by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (Palgrave, 2008)
"Winner's Curse," with Dan Levin, in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2nd edition, ed. by W.A. Darity (Macmillan, 2007)
"Indicative Bidding: An Experimental Analysis," with Svetlana Pevnitskaya and Lixin Ye (Games and Economic Behavior, 2008)
"Learning and Transfer in Signaling Games," with David Cooper (Economic Theory, 2008)
"Winner's Curse," with Dan Levin, in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2nd edition, ed. by W.A. Darity (Macmillan, 2007)
"Survival Auctions," with Svetlana Pevnitskaya and Lixin Ye (Economic Theory, 2007)
"Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments," with Marco Casari and John Ham (American Economic Review, 2007)
"Gender Effects in Private Value Auctions," with John Ham (Economic Letters, 2006)
"Behavioral Identification in Coalitional Bargaining: An Experimental Analysis of Demand Bargaining and Alternating Offers" with Guillaume Frechette and Massimo Morelli (Econometrica, 2005)
"Gamson's Law versus Non-Cooperative Bargaining Theory," with Guillaume Frechette and Massimo Morelli (Games and Economic Behavior, 2005)
"Nominal Bargaining Power, Selection Protocol and Discounting in Legislative Bargaining?" with Guillaume Frechette and Massimo Morelli, Journal of Public Economics, 2005)
"Are Two Heads Better than One? Team versus Individual Play in Signaling Games," with David J. Cooper (American Economic Review, 2005)
"Multi-unit demand auctions with synergies: Behavior in sealed-bid vs ascending-bid uniform-price auctions," with Dan Levin (Games and Economic Behavior, 2005)
"Almost Common Value Auctions Revisited," with Dan Levin (European Economic Review, 2005)
"Randomization, Endogeniety and Laboroatory Experiments: The Role of Cash Balances in Private Value Auctions," with John Ham and Steven Lehrer (Journal of Econometrics, 2005)
"How Robust is Laboratory Gift Exchange?" with G. Frechette and G. Charness (Experimental Economics, 2004)
"Double Auction Markets with Stochastic Supply and Demand Schedules: Call Markets and Continuous Auction Trading Mechanisms," in Advances in Understanding Strategic Behavior; Essays in Honor of Werner Guth, ed. by S. Hack (Palgrave, 2004)
"Bargaining in Legislatures: An Experimental Investigation of Open versus Closed Amendment Rules" (Instructions), with Guillaume R. Frechette and Steven F. Lehrer (American Political Science Review, 2003)
"Lessons Learned: Generalizing Learning Across Games," with David Cooper (American Economic Review, 2003)
"Partial Gift Exchange in an Experimental Labor Market: Impact of Subject Population Differences, Productivity Differences and Effort Requests on Behavior," with R. Lynn Hannan and Donald V. Moser (Journal of Labor Economics, 2002)
Common Value Auctions and the Winner’s Curse, with Dan Levin (Princeton University Press, 2002)
The Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. with A. E. Roth (Princeton University Press, 1995)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (2008)
National Science Foundation grant for "Collaborative Research: Theory, Experiments and Empirical Methodology of Coalitional Bargaining: An Integrated Approach" with Massimo Morelli and G. Frechette (2005-08)
National Science Foundation grant for "Collaborative Research on Team versus Individuals" with Hal Arkes and David Cooper (2005-08)
President, Economic Science Association (2005-07)
National Science Foundation Panel Member, Economics (2007-09)
National Science Foundation grant for "Collaborative Research on Electronic Auction Markets," with Paul Milgrom and Ilya Segal (2004-06)
National Science Foundation grant for "Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Auctions," with Dan Levin (2002-05)
National Science Foundation grant for "Econometric Analysis of Data from Laboratory Experiments: Endogeniety, Attrition, Subject Heterogeneity, and Interdependencies," with John Ham (2002-05)
Fellow, Econometric Society (2003)
Distinguished Chair in Economics, University of Siena, Fulbright Scholar (2002)
Director of the Economics Laboratory, The Ohio State University (1999-)
National Fellow, Hoover Institution (1981-82)
Mershon Projects
Issues in Multi-Dimensional Legislative Bargaining: Collective vs. Particularistic Goods (2006-07)
Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Committees and Legislative Bodies: Relating Experimental Outcomes to Field Data (2004-05)
Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Committees and Legislative Bodies: Theory and Experimental Evaluation (2003-04)
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