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Overview

Timothy N. Cason is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple intersecting fields, primarily within social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance.

The scientist's work prominently focuses on experimental behavioral economics studies and incorporates elements of game theory, economic and environmental valuation, climate change policy and economics, auction theory, information and cybersecurity, as well as energy, environment, and transportation policies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • Experimental Economics

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • "Spatial Coordination and Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions," 2021, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • "Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs," 2023, Science
  • "Network defense and behavioral biases: an experimental study," 2021, Experimental Economics
  • "Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities," 2022, Journal of Public Economics
  • "TASHAROK: Using Mechanism Design for Enhancing Security Resource Allocation in Interdependent Systems," 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Cason frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Mustafa Abdallah, Frans P. de Vries, Saurabh Bagchi, Shreyas Sundaram, and Lata Gangadharan.

The main fields of study that their research contributes to are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within subfields, their work addresses topics such as:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Safety Research
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Information Systems

Best Publications

  • An Experiment in Voluntary Environmental Regulation: Participation in EPA′s 33/50 Program

    Seema Arora;Timothy N. Cason

  • Social Influence in the Sequential Dictator Game

    Timothy N. Cason;Vai-Lam Mui

  • A Laboratory Study of Group Polarisation in the Team Dictator Game

    Timothy N. Cason;Vai-Lam Mui

  • Misconceptions and Game Form Recognition: Challenges to Theories of Revealed Preference and Framing

    Timothy N. Cason;Charles R. Plott

  • Environmental Labeling and Incomplete Consumer Information in Laboratory Markets

    Timothy N. Cason;Lata Gangadharan

  • EPA's New Emissions Trading Mechanism: A Laboratory Evaluation

    Timothy N. Cason;Charles R. Plott

  • Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study

    Timothy N. Cason;William A. Masters;Roman M. Sheremeta

  • Do Community Characteristics Influence Environmental Outcomes? Evidence from the Toxics Release Inventory

    Seema Arora;Timothy N. Cason

  • Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games

    Timothy N. Cason;Roman M. Sheremeta;Jingjing Zhang

  • A laboratory study of auctions for reducing non-point source pollution

    Timothy N. Cason;Lata Gangadharan;Charlotte Duke

  • Auction design for voluntary conservation programs

    Timothy N. Cason;Lata Gangadharan

  • Price formation in double auction markets

    Timothy N. Cason;Daniel Friedman

  • Indirect Punishment and Generosity Toward Strangers

    Aljaž Ule;Aljaž Ule;Arthur Schram;Arno Riedl;Timothy N. Cason

  • Voluntary Participation and Spite in Public Good Provision Experiments: an International Comparison

    Timothy N. Cason;Tatsuyoshi Saijo;Takehiko Yamato

  • PRICE FORMATION IN SINGLE CALL MARKETS

    Timothy N. Cason;Daniel Friedman

  • Behavioral spillovers in coordination games

    Timothy N. Cason;Anya C. Savikhin;Roman M. Sheremeta

  • A laboratory study of voluntary public goods provision with imperfect monitoring and communication

    Timothy N Cason;Feisal U Khan

  • The strategy method lowers measured trustworthy behavior

    Marco Casari;Timothy N. Cason

  • Seller Incentive Properties of EPA′s Emission Trading Auction

    Timothy N. Cason

  • Buyer search and price dispersion:a laboratory study

    Timothy N. Cason;Daniel Friedman

  • Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study

    Roman M. Sheremeta;Timothy N. Cason;William A. Masters

Frequent Co-Authors

Roman M. Sheremeta
Roman M. Sheremeta Case Western Reserve University
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman University of California, Santa Cruz
Saurabh Bagchi
Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette
Shreyas Sundaram
Shreyas Sundaram Purdue University West Lafayette
William A. Masters
William A. Masters Tufts University
Charles R. Plott
Charles R. Plott California Institute of Technology
Charles N. Noussair
Charles N. Noussair University of Arizona
Nick Hanley
Nick Hanley University of Glasgow
Issa Khalil
Issa Khalil Hamad bin Khalifa University
Wallace E. Tyner
Wallace E. Tyner Purdue University West Lafayette

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