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

[2009] “Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment,”with Daniel Friedman and Steven Anderson forthcoming in American Economic Review

[2009] “Learning to Wait: A Laboratory Investigation,”with Daniel Friedman and Steven Anderson forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies

[2009] “A Manipulator Can Aid Prediction Market Accuracy,” with Robin Hanson forthcoming in Economica, 76, 304-314.

[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. Marketing Letters 19:13, 417-429.

[2008] “Free Cash Flow and Takeover Threats: An Experimental Study,” Southern Economic Journal 75:2, 351-366.

[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.

[2007] "A Compensation Election for Binary Social Choice," with Vernon L. Smith and Abel Winn. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:3, 1093-1096.

working papers

An Experiment on Exit in Duopoly,” with Bart Wilson and Arthur Zillante (Revising for invited resubmission, Games and Economic Behavior)

Can Manipulators Mislead Market Observers?,” with David Porter, Chris Hibbert, Robin Hanson and Dorina Tila (Revising for invited resubmission, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)


in progress

“Extreme Walrasian Dynamics: The Gale Example in the Lab,”with Sean Crockett and Charles Plott

“Continuous Dilemmas,”with Daniel Friedman