Address:
415 Engineering 2
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Tel: 831-459-5697

Fax: 831-459-5077

Email: roprea@ucsc.edu

about me

I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and associate director of the LEEPS laboratory.

My main research areas are experimental economics, industrial organization and applied game theory. You can find my curriculum vita here.

publications

[2008] “A Manipulator Can Aid Prediction Market Accuracy,” with Robin Hanson forthcoming in Economica.

[2008] “Experiments on Strategic Choices and Markets,” with Wilfred Amaldoss, Teck-Hua Ho, Aradhna Krishna, Kay-Yut Chen, Preyas Desai, Ganesh Iyer, Sanjay Jain, Noah Lim, John Morgan and Joydeep Srivasatava, forthcoming in Marketing Letters.

[2008] “Free Cash Flow and Takeover Threats: An Experimental Study,” forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal .

[2006] "Information Aggregation and Manipulation in an Experimental Market," with Robin Hanson and David Porter. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60:1, 449-459.

[2006] "A Compensation Election for Binary Social Choice," with Vernon L. Smith and Abel Winn. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (forthcoming).

[2003] “The Rule of Law,” with Peter J. Boettke. in Charles Rowely, ed., Encyclopedia of Public Choice (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers)

working papers

Learning to Wait: A Laboratory Investigation,”with Daniel Friedman and Steven Anderson (Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies)

Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment,”with Daniel Friedman and Steven Anderson

Can Manipulators Mislead Market Observers?,” with David Porter, Chris Hibbert, Robin Hanson and Dorina Tila

An Experiment on Exit in Duopoly,” with Bart Wilson and Arthur Zillante