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Timothy N. Cason

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

Professor of Economics

1310 Krannert Building

West Lafayette, IN 47907-1310

United States

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: Theory and Experimental Results

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2018
Timothy N. Cason, William A. Masters and Roman M. Sheremeta
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Tufts University - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Case Western Reserve University
Downloads 736 (85,761)
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contests, rent-seeking, lotteries, incentives in experiments, risk aversion

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

California Institute of Technology Social Science Working Paper No. 1364
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2014
Timothy N. Cason and Charles R. Plott
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 470 (151,506)
Citation 76

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Preference Elicitation, Misconceptions, Reference Dependence, Endowment Effect

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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games

Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich Working Paper No. 505
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Timothy N. Cason, Roman M. Sheremeta and Jingjing Zhang
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, College of Business and Law
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Contest, between-group competition, within-group competition, cooperation, coordination, free-riding, experiments

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Asymmetric and Endogenous Communication in Competition between Groups

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Jan 2015
Timothy N. Cason, Roman M. Sheremeta and Jingjing Zhang
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, College of Business and Law
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between-group competition, within-group competition, communication, coordination, contests, experiments

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Uncertainty, Information Sharing and Tacit Collusion in Laboratory Duopoly Markets

Univ. of Wyoming Economics & Finance WP No. 34
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Oct 1998
Timothy N. Cason and Charles F. Mason
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Wyoming - College of Business - Department of Economics and Finance
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An Experimental Study of Electronic Bulletin Board Trading for Emission Permits

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Oct 1997
Lata Gangadharan and Timothy N. Cason
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
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Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naïve Play in Hawk-Dove Games

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2024
Timothy N. Cason, Tridib Sharma and Radovan Vadovic
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica and Carleton University
Downloads 195 (389,821)
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correlated equilibrium, correlated beliefs, assortative matching, laboratory experiment, social preferences

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

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Feb 2011
Roman M. Sheremeta, Timothy N. Cason and William A. Masters
Case Western Reserve University, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Tufts University - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Downloads 181 (418,025)
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performance pay, tournament, piece rate, tournament design, contest, experiments, risk aversion, feedback, gender

9.

Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2012
Roman M. Sheremeta, Timothy N. Cason and Anya Samek
Case Western Reserve University, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
Downloads 167 (451,954)
Citation 17

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coordination, order-statistic games, experiments, cooperation, minimum game, behavioral spillover

10.

Asymmetric and Endogenous Within-Group Communication in Competitive Coordination Games

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017
Timothy N. Cason, Roman M. Sheremeta and Jingjing Zhang
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, College of Business and Law
Downloads 140 (524,371)
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between-group competition, within-group competition, communication, coordination, contests, experiments

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The Design, Experimental Laboratory Testing and Implementation of a Large, Multi-Market, Policy Constrained, State Gaming Machines Auction

Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences California Institute of Technology, Social Science Working Paper 1447, September 2019, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 3456314
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Sep 2019
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesClaremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Students, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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design, auction, tatonnement, experiment

12.

Innovation and Information Free-Riding: An Experimental Investigation of Collective Experimentation

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 May 2025 Last Revised: 27 May 2025
Timothy N. Cason, Stanton Hudja and Yaroslav Rosokha
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Illinois Institute of Technology - Stuart School of Business, IIT and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
Downloads 93 (725,554)

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Strategic Experimentation, Information Externalities, Technology Adoption, Bayesian Updating, Social Learning, Second-mover Advantage, Collective Experimentation, Belief Updating, Cognitive Ability, Innovation Adoption

13.

Norms in Conflict: Why AI Advisors Fail to Improve Human Coordination

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Mar 2026
Purdue University, Krannert School of Management, Department of Economics, Students, George Mason University, University of Bath and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
Downloads 74 (883,195)

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Public goods, generative AI, fairness, coordination game, experiment

14.

Correlated Beliefs: Predicting Outcomes in 2×2 Games

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Apr 2019
Timothy N. Cason, Tridib Sharma and Radovan Vadovic
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica and Carleton University
Downloads 56 (1,000,027)
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laboratory experiment; correlation; beliefs; behavior

15.

Price Competition and Cooperation on Sustainable Investments1

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Aug 2025
Timothy N. Cason, Takahiko Kiso and Frans P. de Vries
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, University of Aberdeen - Business School and University of Aberdeen
Downloads 41 (1,170,409)

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Collusion, Duopoly, Antitrust, Competition policy, Communication, Experiment

16.

Local Competition Promotes Hurtful Behaviour Towards Unknown Others

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Jan 2026
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Maastricht University, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
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Spite, Generosity, Punishment, Cooperation, Isolationism

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

Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 1, pp. 413-453, November 1998
Posted: 18 May 2004
Seema Arora and Timothy N. Cason
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

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Durable Goods, Coasian Dynamics, and Uncertainty: Theory and Experiments

Posted: 16 Nov 2001
Timothy N. Cason and Tridib Sharma
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica

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The Opportunity for Conspiracy in Asset Markets Organized with Dealer Intermediaries

Posted: 08 Dec 1999
Timothy N. Cason
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

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