• Education

Ph. D., Indiana University, Economics, 2000
B.A., Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio), Economics, German, International Studies, l994

• Positions Held

2012- Present     Professor, Department of Economics, U.S. Naval Academy

2006-2012         Associate Professor, Department of Economics, U.S. Naval Academy
2001- 2006        Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, U.S. Naval Academy
2000- 2001        Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, U.S. Naval Academy
1996- 2000        Associate Instructor, Department of Economics, Indiana University
1994-1996         Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Indiana University

• Grants

National Science Foundation Grant (#0720696) “Laboratory Studies of Holdout and Efficiency in Multilateral Bargaining”, Co-Principal Investigator (with Pamela Schmitt and co-investigators Robert Shupp and John Cadigan), $160,181

National Science Foundation Grant (#0632836) “Undergraduate Teaching Tools for Computable General Equilibrium Models” Mary Burfisher, Principle Investigator (co-investigator with Karen Thierfelder, Katherine Smith and Victoria Greenfield)

• Publications

"An Experimental Dynamic Public Goods Game with Carryover," (with John Cadigan, Pamela Schmitt, and Patrick Wayland), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Abstract

"Contracts, Behavior, and the Land-Assembly Problem: An Experimental Study," (with Ryan Wielgus, John Cadigan, and Pamela Schmitt), in Research in Experimental Economics: Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability, 2011, vol. 14, 151-180 Abstract

"The Holdout Problem and Urban Sprawl: Experimental Evidence," (with Robert Shupp, John Cadigan, and Pamela Schmitt), in Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 68, 72-81 Abstract

"An Experimental Study of the Holdout Problem in a Multilateral Bargaining Game," (with John Cadigan, Pamela Schmitt, and Robert Shupp), in the Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), 444-457 Abstract

"Personality Preferences in Laboratory Economics Experiments," (with Pamela Schmitt, Rob Shupp, and John Cadigan), in Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008, 37, 998-1009. Abstract

"Social Position and Distributive Justice: Experimental Evidence," (with Pamela M. Schmitt, John Cadigan, and Rob Shupp), in Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74(3), 811-818. Abstract

"Pre-Commitment and Personality: Behavioral Explanations in Ultimatum Games," (with Pamela Schmitt, Rob Shupp, and Justin Mayer) in Journal of Economic
       Behavior and Organization, 2008, 66(3-4), 597-605 Abstract

"The Performance of Economics Graduates over the Entire Curriculum: The Determinants of Success," (with Pamela M. Schmitt) in the Journal of Economic Education, 2006, 37(4), 387-394. Abstract

"On the Role of the Hostage in Ultimatum Games," (with Pamela Schmitt and Rob Shupp), in Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35(3), 399-411. Abstract

"Roll the Dice and Students Participate," in The Teaching Professor, April 2006, 20(4), 6.

"Taxes or Fees? The Political Economy of Providing Excludable Public Goods," (with Eckhard Janeba), in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2005, 7(3), 405-426. Abstract

"Multi-Period Rent-Seeking Contests with Carryover: Theory and Experimental Evidence," (with John Cadigan, Pamela M. Schmitt, and Rob Shupp), in Economics of Governance, 2004, 5, 187-211. Abstract

"An Experimental Investigation of Excludable Public Goods," in Experimental Economics, 2002, 5(3), 209- 222 AbstractDataInstructions

"Collective Action with Incomplete Commitment: Experimental Evidence," (with Pamela M. Schmitt and James M. Walker) in Southern Economic Journal, 2000, 66(4), 829-854  Abstract

"Bucks for Ducks, or Money for Nothin’? The Political Economy of the Federal Duck Stamp Program," (with Daniel K. Benjamin and Terry L. Anderson) in Political Environmentalism: Going behind the Green Curtain, Terry L. Anderson editor, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000, 121-159 Abstract

• Work in Progress

"Institutions, Information, and the Multilateral Bargaining Problem," (with John Cadigan, Pamela Schmitt, and Rob Shupp)
"That's My Final Offer: A Laboratory Study of Unanimous-Consent Bargaining with Asymmetry and Credible Commitment" (with John Cadigan and Pamela Schmitt)

• Other Professional Activities

2000-2001     Consultant, Unext.com, Bloomington, IN
1997-1998     Graduate Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana
                       Referee for the American Economic Review
                       Referee for the Journal of Public Economics
                       Referee for Global Governance
                       Referee for Games and Economic Behavior
                       Referee for Education Economics
                       Referee for Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
                       Referee for European Economic Review
                       Referee for International Review of Economics Education
                       Referee for International Tax and Finance
                       Referee for Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
                       Project reviewer for National Science Foundation

-Last Updated August 2012