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Publications – Ed Hopkins

“Is Everything Relative? A Survey of the Theory of Matching Tournaments”. Full Paper. Forthcoming, 2023, at Journal of Economic Surveys.

“Lone Wolf or Herd Animal? Information Choice and Learning from Others” with John Duffy and Tatiana Kornienko. European Economic Review, 2021, 134, article 103690. Full Paper.

“An Experimental Investigation of Price Dispersion and Cycles” with Timothy N. Cason (Purdue) and Daniel Friedman (UCSC). Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129(3), 789-841. Full Paper.

“Information Choice in a Social Learning Experiment” with John Duffy, Tatiana Kornienko and Mingye Ma. Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 118, 295–315. Full Paper.

 “Inequality and Risk-Taking Behaviour”. Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 316-328. Full Paper.

“Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching” with V. Bhaskar (UT Austin). Journal of Political Economy, August, 2016, 124(4), 992-1045. Full Paper.

“Competitive Altruism, Mentalizing and Signaling”. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November, 2014, 6(4): 272-292.  Full Paper.

“Cycles and Instability in a Rock-Paper-Scissors Population Game: a Continuous Time Experiment” with Timothy N. Cason (Purdue) and Daniel Friedman (UCSC). Review of Economic Studies, January, 2014, 81, 112-136. Full Paper.

 Job Market Signalling of Relative Position, or Becker Married to Spence”. Journal of the European Economic Association, April, 2012, 10(2), 290-322. Full Paper.

“Testing the TASP: an Experimental Investigation of Learning in Games with Unstable Equilibria'' with Timothy N. Cason (Purdue) and Daniel Friedman (UCSC). Journal of Economic Theory, November, 2010, 145, 2309-2331. Full Paper

Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments Versus the Inequality of Rewards”, with Tatiana Kornienko. Full Paper. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2010, 2(3), 106-137.

“Status, Affluence, and Inequality: Rank-Based Comparisons in Games of Status”, with Tatiana Kornienko. Full Paper. Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67,  552-568.

Learning in Games with Unstable Equilibria”, with Josef Hofbauer and Michel Benaim.  Full Paper. Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, 144, 1694-1709.

“Inequality, Happiness and Relative Concerns: What Actually is their Relationship?” Full Paper. Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6, 351–372.

“Price Dispersion”, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Full Paper.

Adaptive Learning Models of Consumer Behavior”. Full Paper. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization November, 2007, 64, 348-368, special issue in honour of Alan Kirman.

Cross and Double Cross: Comparative Statics in First Price Auctions”, with Tatiana Kornienko. Full Paper. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 7 (2007), Issue 1, Topics, Article 19.

Inequality and Growth in the Presence of Competition for Status”, with Tatiana Kornienko. FULL PAPER. Economics Letters, November, 2006.

 “Attainability of Boundary Points under Reinforcement Learning with Martin Posch.  FULL PAPER, Games and Economic Behavior, October, 2005.

“Learning in Perturbed Asymmetric Games”, with Josef Hofbauer.  FULL PAPER, Games and Economic Behavior, July, 2005.

“Learning, Information and Sorting in Market Entry Games: Theory and Evidence”, with John Duffy. FULL PAPER, Games and Economic Behavior, April, 2005.

“Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status”, with Tatiana Kornienko. FULL PAPER, American Economic Review, September, 2004.

"Two Competing Models of How People Learn in Games". Econometrica, November, 2002. FULL PAPER. See also NAJ Economics Vol 1.

"The Stability of Price Dispersion under Seller and Consumer Learning", with Robert M. Seymour. International Economic Review, November, 2002. FULL PAPER.

"A Note on Best Response Dynamics," Games and Economic Behavior, October, 1999. Full Paper.

"Learning, Matching and Aggregation,Games and Economic Behavior, January, 1999. Full Paper.