Cary A. Deck

University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies

P.O. Box 870244

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

United States

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1.

Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2008
Cary A. Deck, Jungmin Lee, Jungmin Lee, Javier A. Reyes and Chris Rosen
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, FIUIZA Institute of Labor Economics, University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business and University of Arkansas
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Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices

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Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 08 May 2014
Tibor Besedes, Cary A. Deck, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Virginia Tech and University of Connecticut Department of Economics
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choice architecture, choice overload, inertia, status quo bias, self-sorting, decision making, experiments

Reducing Choice Overload Without Reducing Choices

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 09/2012-064 - revised version April 2014
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2016
Tibor Besedes, Cary A. Deck, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Virginia Tech and University of Connecticut Department of Economics
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Choice architecture, choice overload, inertia, status quo bias, self-sorting, decision making, experiments

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Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 94, No. 2, 2012, DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1047
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2013
Tibor Besedes, Cary A. Deck, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Virginia Tech and University of Connecticut Department of Economics
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experiments, decision making, optimal choice, age effects, heuristics

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Risk Attitudes in Large Stake Gambles: Evidence from a Game Show

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jul 2006
Cary A. Deck, Jungmin Lee, Jungmin Lee and Javier A. Reyes
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, FIUIZA Institute of Labor Economics and University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business
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Risk attitude, Uncertainty, Expected utility theory, Game show

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Experimental Gasoline Markets

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 263
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Oct 2003
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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gasoline industry, zone pricing, vertical integration, asymmetric price adjustment, experimental economics

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When are Women More Generous than Men?

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper Series No. 06-39
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Apr 2006
James C. Cox and Cary A. Deck
Georgia State University - Department of Economics and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
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Economics at the Pump

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 May 2004
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Gas prices, gasoline prices, price gouging, anti-gouging, regulation, market manipulation, price changes, gasoline markets, price asymmetries, lags, market allocations

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Exploring Higher-Order Risk Effects

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2487
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Cary A. Deck and Harris Schlesinger
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Alabama
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risk, prudence, temperance, laboratory experiments

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Amended Final-Offer Arbitration is Improved Arbitration: Evidence from the Laboratory

IACM 18th Annual Conference
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 May 2005
Cary A. Deck, Amy Farmer and Dao-Zhi Zeng
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Arkansas - Department of Economics and Tohoku University - Graduate School of Information Sciences
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Arbitration, Bargaining, Experiments

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Fight or Flight? Defending Against Sequential Attacks in the Game of Siege

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2011
Roman M. Sheremeta and Cary A. Deck
Case Western Reserve University and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
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Colonel Blotto, conflict resolution, weakest-link, game of siege, multi-period resource allocation, experiments

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When Do Security Markets Aggregate Dispersed Information?

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When Do Security Markets Aggregate Dispersed Information?

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 04 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2020
Brice Corgnet, Cary A. Deck, Mark DeSantis, Kyle W. Hampton and Erik O. Kimbrough
University of Saint Etienne - Analysis Group and Economic Theory Lyon St-Etienne (GATE-LSE), University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, University of Hawaii and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Aggregation, Efficient Markets, Rational Expectations, Experiments, Replication

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Effort and Performance: What Distinguishes Interacting and Non-Interacting Groups from Individuals?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 08 May 2014
Tibor Besedes, Cary A. Deck, Sarah Marx Quintanar, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Virginia Tech and University of Connecticut Department of Economics
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group behavior, decision making, free-riding, experiments

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Assigning Intentions When Actions are Unobservable: The Impact of Trembling in the Trust Game

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper No. 06-41
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Apr 2006
James C. Cox and Cary A. Deck
Georgia State University - Department of Economics and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
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Tug-of-War in the Laboratory

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Sep 2015
Cary A. Deck and Roman M. Sheremeta
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Case Western Reserve University
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tug-of-war, all-pay auction, multi-stage contest, laboratory experiment

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Consistency of Higher Order Risk Preferences

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4047
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jan 2013
Cary A. Deck and Harris Schlesinger
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Alabama
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risk apportionment, mixed risk aversion, mixed risk loving, prudence, temperance, edginess, laboratory experiments, moment preference, prospect theory

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Decision-Making Strategies and Performance Among Seniors

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 81, No. 2, 2012, pp. 524-533
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2012
Tibor Besedes, Cary A. Deck, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Virginia Tech and University of Connecticut Department of Economics
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experiments, decision making, choice overload, age effects, heuristics

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Paying for Express Checkout: Competition and Price Discrimination in Multi-Server Queuing Systems

PLoS ONE, Vol. 9(3), 2014
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 20 May 2015
Cary A. Deck, Erik O. Kimbrough and Steeve Mongrain
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Department of Economics
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Queue Pricing, Retail Markets, Price Discrimination, Laboratory Experiments

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Arbitration and Bargaining Across the Pacific

IACM 2007 Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Nov 2007
Cary A. Deck
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies
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Arbitration, Culture, Experiments, International Interactions

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Sequentially Pricing Multiple Products: Theory and Experiments

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Dec 2008
John Aloysius, Cary A. Deck and Amy Farmer
University of Arkansas - Department of Supply Chain Management, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Arkansas - Department of Economics
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Sequential Pricing, Price Discrimination, E-commerce, Market Experiments

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An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Incentives to Share Knowledge

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An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Incentives to Share Knowledge

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Oct 2009
Cary A. Deck and Nisvan Erkal
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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experiments, multi-stage R&D, stochastic R&D, cooperative R&D, knowledge sharing, research joint ventures

An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Incentives to Share Knowledge

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 51, Issue 2, pp. 1622-1639, 2013
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Feb 2013
Cary A. Deck and Nisvan Erkal
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Behavioral Demand Effects When Buyers Anticipate Inventory Shortages

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2019
Joshua Foster, Cary A. Deck and Amy Farmer
Ivey Business School, Western University, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Arkansas - Department of Economics
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Inventory, Retailing, Simulation, Behavioural OR

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Keeping up with the Joneses: Social Status and Wealth Inequality in a Leveraged Asset Market

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Jul 2019
Cary A. Deck, Li Hao, Weineng Xu and Timothy J. Yeager
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business
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wealth inequality, keeping up with the Joneses, asset market experiment, asset bubbles

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Do Market Incentives Crowd Out Charitable Giving?

Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 47, 2013
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 20 May 2015
Cary A. Deck and Erik O. Kimbrough
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Pro-Social Behavior, Market Incentives, Crowding Out, Wealth Effects

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Comment on ‘Promises and Partnership’

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 May 2011
Cary A. Deck, Maroš Servátka and Steven James Tucker
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Macquarie Graduate School of Management - MGSM Experimental Economics Laboratory and University of Waikato Management School - Economics
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Experiment, Promises, Partnership, Guilt Aversion, Psychological Game Theory, Trust, Lies, Social Distance, Behavioral Economics, Hidden Action

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Experimenting with Contests for Experimentation

Southern Economic Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 May 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016
Cary A. Deck and Erik O. Kimbrough
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Research and Development, Innovation, Contests, Experiments

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Single- and Double-Elimination All-Pay Tournaments

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
Cary A. Deck and Erik O. Kimbrough
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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All-pay auctions, tournaments, experiments

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Alliances in Defense against an Opportunistic Opponent: Theory and Experiments

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Aug 2012
Cary A. Deck, Joshua Foster and Hongwei Song
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Ivey Business School, Western University and Bellarmine University
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Contests, All-Pay Auctions, Alliances, Conflict Resolution, Terrorism, Arms Race, Experiments

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Designing Call Auction Institutions to Eliminate Price Bubbles: Is English Dutch the Best?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Cary A. Deck, Maroš Servátka and Steven James Tucker
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Macquarie Graduate School of Management - MGSM Experimental Economics Laboratory and University of Waikato Management School - Economics
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Asset Markets, Experimental Economics, Institutional Design

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Information (Non)Aggregation in Markets with Costly Signal Acquisition

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Jan 2018
Brice Corgnet, Cary A. Deck, Mark DeSantis and David Porter
University of Saint Etienne - Analysis Group and Economic Theory Lyon St-Etienne (GATE-LSE), University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Prediction Markets, Information Acquisition, Laboratory Experiments, Behavioral Finance

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Tracking Customer Search to Price Discriminate

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 280-295, April 2006
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Jun 2006
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Litigation with Negative Expected Value Suits: An Experimental Analysis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Oct 2022
Cary A. Deck, Paul Pecorino and Michael Solomon
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Culverhouse College of Business
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Dispute Resolution, Negative Expected Value Lawsuits, Laboratory Experiment

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On the Robustness of Higher Order Risk Preferences

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 85, Issue 2, pp. 313-333, 2018
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 05 Jun 2018
Cary A. Deck and Harris Schlesinger
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Alabama
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Prediction Markets in the Laboratory

Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 27, Issue 3, pp. 589-603, 2013
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Jun 2013
Cary A. Deck and David Porter
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Laboratory experiments, Prediction markets

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Fixed Revenue Auctions: Theory and Behavior

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 342-354, July 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Sep 2008
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Time Discounting in Strategic Contests

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 151-164, 2015
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Feb 2015
Cary A. Deck and Salar Jahedi
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and RAND Corporation
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An Examination of the Effect of Messages on Cooperation Under Double-Blind and Single-Blind Payoff Procedures

Experimental Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2013, pp. 597-607
Posted: 09 Feb 2014
Cary A. Deck, Maroš Servátka and Steven James Tucker
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Macquarie Graduate School of Management - MGSM Experimental Economics Laboratory and University of Waikato Management School - Economics

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Anonymity, Cooperation, Experiment, Hidden action, Lies, Messages, Partnership, Promises, Social distance, Trust

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Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 85, 2013
Posted: 09 Feb 2013
Shengle Lin, Cary A. Deck and David Porter
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics

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Information Aggregation, Prediction Markets, Manipulation

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An Experimental Investigation of Moral Hazard in Costly Investments

Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 725-746, 2008
Posted: 24 May 2011
Cary A. Deck and Javier A. Reyes
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business

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catalytic finance, experiments, moral hazard

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Bargaining Over an Uncertain Value: Arbitration Mechanisms Compared

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 23, Issue 3, pp. 547-579, 2007
Posted: 23 Jun 2008
Cary A. Deck and Amy Farmer
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and University of Arkansas - Department of Economics

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Amended Final-Offer Arbitration Outperforms Final-Offer Arbitration

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 384-407, 2007
Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Cary A. Deck, Amy Farmer and Dao-Zhi Zeng
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Arkansas - Department of Economics and Tohoku University - Graduate School of Information Sciences

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When are Women More Generous than Men?

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 587-598, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Cary A. Deck
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies

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On the Nature of Reciprocal Motives

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 623-635, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
James C. Cox and Cary A. Deck
Georgia State University - Department of Economics and University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies

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