Robert Gazzale

Dept of Economics
University of Toronto

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Working Papers

“I'll cross that bridge if I get to it: Focusing on the Near Future,” with Lina Walker. (PDF.) Subject instructions: PDF. (Experiment 2 previously circulated as “Behavioral Biases in Annuity Choice: An Experiment.”)

“Learning to Play Nash from the Best.” (PDF.)

“Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring.” (PDF.)

Publications

“A Shared Sense of Responsibility: Money versus Effort Contributions in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods,” with Jared C. Carbone. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 139, 2017, pages 74–87. (PDF of working paper version.)

“Testing motives for charitable giving: A revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence,” with Rahul Deb and Matthew J. Kotchen. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 120, December 2014, pages 181–192. (PDF version.)

“Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription,” with Julian Jamison, Alexander Karlan and Dean Karlan. Economic Inquiry, 51(1), January 2013, pages 1002–1011. (PDF of working paper version.)

“Remain Silent and Ye Shall Suffer: Seller Exploitation of Reticent Buyers in an Experimental Reputation System,” with Tapan Khopkar. Experimental Economics, 14(2), May 2011, pages 273–285. (Available here. PDF of working paper version.)

“User cost, usage and library purchasing of electronically-accessed journals,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. In Wendy Lougee and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, eds., Economics and usage of digital libraries: byting the bullet. University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office, 2008. (Available here.)

“When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting” with Yan Chen. The American Economic Review, 94(5), December 2004, pages 1505–1503. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. In Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rogríquez-Aguilar & William E. Walsh, eds., Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V: Designing Mechanisms and Systems. Springer Verlag, 2004. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing What to Learn,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. Computational Intelligence, 18(4), 2002, pages 566–582. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Evidence from the Field,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Juan F. Riveros. In Ingo Vogelsand & Benjamin M. Compaine, eds., The Internet Upheaval. MIT Press, 2000. (PDF of earlier version.)

Refereed Conference Papers

“Endogenous Differentiation of Information Goods under Uncertainty,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. ACM Press, October 2001. (PDF of subsequent version.)

“Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment,” with Jeffrey O. Kephart, Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. ACM Press, October 2001. (PDF of earlier version.)

“Information Bundling in a Dynamic Environment,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. Proceedings of the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Economic Agents, Models and Mechanisms. (PDF of earlier version.)