2026 Charles R. Plott: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	73	391	351	267	236	306	27260

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1985 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Charles R. Plott is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on economics and related subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, management science and operations research, marketing, and law.

The main topics explored in their work include:

Environmental Conservation and Management
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
Auction Theory and Applications
Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Charles R. Plott has published in notable academic venues such as:

Environmental Research Letters
Economic Theory
SSRN Electronic Journal

Some recent papers by Charles R. Plott include:

Matching problems in biodiversity offset markets: a case study of the New South Wales biodiversity offsets scheme, 2023, Environmental Research Letters
General equilibrium methodology applied to the design, implementation and performance evaluation of large, multi-market and multi-unit policy constrained auctions, 2022, Economic Theory
Concept-Based Neural Investigations of Multi-Component Economic Choice in Human and Non-Human Primates, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

Gary Stoneham
Ingrid Burfurd
Rogelio Canizales Perez
M Kovác
Timothy N. Cason

Throughout their career, Charles R. Plott has received several awards acknowledging their contributions in the field, including:

Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2008
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1985
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985
Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981

Best Publications

Speculative Investor Behavior in a Stock Market with Heterogeneous Expectations

J. Michael Harrison;David M. Kreps

2087
Citations
Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon

David M. Grether;Charles R. Plott

1547
Citations
psychology and economics

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1530
Citations
A Notion of Equilibrium and Its Possibility Under Majority Rule

Charles R. Plott

1246
Citations
The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations

Charles R. Plott;Kathryn Zeiler

1181
Citations
The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the 'Endowment Effect,' Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations

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1016
Citations
Public Goods Provision in an Experimental Environment

R. Mark Isaac;Kenneth F. McCue;Charles R. Plott

864
Citations
Efficiency of Experimental Security Markets with Insider Information: An Application of Rational-Expectations Models

Charles R. Plott;Shyam Sunder

820
Citations
Rational Expectations and the Aggregation of Diverse Information in Laboratory Security Markets

Charles R. Plott;Shyam Sunder

729
Citations
NONSPECULATIVE BUBBLES IN EXPERIMENTAL ASSET MARKETS: LACK OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF RATIONALITY VS. ACTUAL IRRATIONALITY

Vivian Lei;Charles N. Noussair;Charles R. Plott

625
Citations
Industrial Organization Theory and Experimental Economics

Charles R. Plott

624
Citations
Committee Decisions under Majority Rule: An Experimental Study

Morris P. Fiorina;Charles R. Plott

514
Citations
PATH INDEPENDENCE, RATIONALITY, AND SOCIAL CHOICE

Charles R. Plott

473
Citations
Handbook of Experimental Economics Results

Charles R. Plott;Vernon L. Smith

473
Citations
An Experimental Examination of Two Exchange Institutions

Charles R. Plott;Vernon L. Smith

448
Citations
ASSET VALUATION IN AN EXPERIMENTAL MARKET

Robert Forsythe;Thomas R. Palfrey;Charles R. Plott

412
Citations
Information Cascades: Replication and an Extension to Majority Rule and Conformity-Rewarding Institutions

Angela A. Hung;Charles R. Plott

394
Citations
Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: An Overview and Interpretation

Charles R. Plott

354
Citations
Rational Individual Behavior in Markets and Social Choice Processes: the Discovered Preference Hypothesis

Charles R. Plott

349
Citations
Information Aggregation Mechanisms: Concept, Design and Implementation for a Sales Forecasting Problem

Charles R. Plott;Kay-Yut Chen

334
Citations
EPA's New Emissions Trading Mechanism: A Laboratory Evaluation

Timothy N. Cason;Charles R. Plott

323
Citations
Exchange asymmetries incorrectly interpreted as evidence of endowment effect theory and prospect theory

Charles R. Plott;Kathryn Zeiler

307
Citations
Industrial Organization Theory and Experimental Economies

Charles R. Plott

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean P. Alderucci Carnegie Mellon University

Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge

Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona

Vernon L. Smith Chapman University

Timothy N. Cason Purdue University West Lafayette

R. Mark Isaac Florida State University

David Porter Chapman University

Shyam Sunder Yale University

John O. Ledyard California Institute of Technology

William R. Zame University of California, Los Angeles

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