Voting games and computational complexity (2008)
Harrison, Glenn W., McDaniel, Tanga
Voting rules over three or more alternatives suffer from a general problem of manipulability. However, if the rule is ‘difficult’ to manipulate, in some formal computational sense that is...
Policy Reform Without Tears by (2007)
Glenn W. Harrison, Jesper Jensen, Morten I. Lau, Thomas F. Rutherford, The Darla Moore
Most of the major policy reforms being considered result in winners and losers. It would be nice if this were not so, and one could devise reforms that were “win-win” propositions when one digs...
Voting Games and Computational Complexity by (2007)
Glenn W. Harrison, Tanga Mcdaniel, The Darla Moore, Government For Funding, To David Kennison, ...
Voting rules over three or more alternatives suffer from a general problem of manipulability. However, if the rule is “difficult ” to manipulate, in some formal computational sense that is...
Sequential Bargaining Games by (2007)
Glenn W. Harrison, E. Elisabet Rutström
Sequential bargaining games are particularly interesting objects to analyze since they offer economists a rich context in which to study the way in which humans form expectations about the behavior...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F, David G. Tarr, The World Bank
Most interesting results on the welfare effects of regional arrangements are ambiguous at a theoretical level. Many questions only have quantitative answers that are specific to the particular...
Behavioral Econometrics for Psychologists (2007)
Andersen, Steffen, Harrison, Glenn W., Lau, Morten Igel, Rutström, Elisabeth E.
We make the case that psychologists should make wider use of structural econometric methods. These methods involve the development of maximum likelihood estimates of models, where the likelihood...
Stephen M. Fiore, Glenn W. Harrison, Charles E. Hughes, E. Elisabet Rutström
Abstract. We develop the concept of virtual experiments and consider their application to environmental policy. A virtual experiment combines insights from virtual reality in computer science,...
House Money Effects in Public Good Experiments: Comment by (2006)
Abstract. We reconsider evidence from experiments that claim to show that using “house money ” in standard public goods experiments has no effect on behavior. We show that it does have an effect...
Testing Static Game Theory with Dynamic Experiments: A Case Study of Public Goods by (2006)
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Elisabet E. Rutström
Game theory provides predictions of behavior in many one-shot games. On the other hand, most experimenters usually play repeated games with subjects, to provide experience. To avoid subjects...
Testing static game theory with dynamic experiments : a case study of public goods (2005)
Botelho, Anabela, Harrison, Glenn W., Pinto, Lígia, Rutström, Elisabet E.
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Social norms and social choice (2005)
Botelho, Anabela, Harrison, Glenn W., Pinto, Lígia, Rutström, Elisabet E.
Experiments can provide rich information on behavior conditional on the institutional rules of the game being imposed by the experimenter. We consider what happens when the subjects are allowed to...
Discounting in developing countries : a pilot experiment in Timor-Leste (2005)
Botelho, Anabela, Harrison, Glenn W., Pinto, Lígia, Rutström, Elisabet E., Veiga, Paula
We conduct laboratory experiments in Timor-Leste designed to test if individual discount rates vary with the time horizon for which the rate is elicited. Our experiments test a design that has been...
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Elisabet E. Rutström, Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, ...
dynamic experiments: a case study
Testing Static Game Theory with Dynamic Experiments: A Case Study of Public Goods by (2005)
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Elisabet E. Rutström
Game theory provides predictions of behavior in many one-shot games. On the other hand, most experimenters usually play repeated games with subjects, to provide experience. To avoid subjects...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil (2004)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G., Gurgel, Angelo
Este estudio evalúa, usando un modelo CGE de regiones múltiples, las opciones de política regional, multilateral y unilateral de comercio del MERCOSUR, desde la perspectiva del bienestar de todos...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil (2004)
Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G., Gurgel, Angelo, Harrison, Glenn W.
Este estudio evalúa, usando un modelo CGE de regiones múltiples, las opciones de política regional, multilateral y unilateral de comercio del MERCOSUR, desde la perspectiva del bienestar de todos...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil (2004)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G., Gurgel, Angelo
A multiregion computable general equilibrium model is used to evaluate the regional, multilateral, and unilateral trade policy options of Mercosur from the perspective of the welfare of all potential...
Rules of Thumb for Evaluating Preferential Trading Arrangement: Evidence from CGE Assessments (2003)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Usando un modelo de equilibrio general computable para múltiples sectores, en este documento se examina la estrategia chilena conocida como ¿regionalismo aditivo¿, que aplica el país para...
Rules of Thumb for Evaluating Preferential Trading Arrangement: Evidence from CGE Assessments (2003)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Usando un modelo de equilibrio general computable para múltiples sectores, en este documento se examina la estrategia chilena conocida como ¿regionalismo aditivo¿, que aplica el país para...
Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Efficient Equity (2003)
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
Even if trade liberalization results in the aggregate welfare gains over all households, it is possible that the poorest households could lose. Is it possible to undertake the reform in such a way...
Botelho, Anabela, Harrison, Glenn W., Hirsch, Marc, Elisabet, Rutström
Bargaining behavior appears to vary across nations. What drives these apparent differences? We reconsider the evidence provided by previous experiments, and undertake some new experiments that expand...
PRISTUPANJE HRVATSKE SVJETSKOJ TRGOVINSKOJ ORGANIZACIJI: RAVNOTEŽNA ANALIZA (2000)
Šohinger, Jasminka, Galinec, Davor, Harrison, Glenn W.
U ovome radu analiziramo učinke liberalizacije hrvatske vanjskotrgovinske politike na njezino gospodarstvo, koristeći se kvantitativnim, multiregionalnim modelom opće ravnoteže. Preduvjet za...
Multilateral negotiations over climate change policy (2000)
Pinto, Lígia, Harrison, Glenn W.
Negotiations in the real world have many features which tend to be ignored in policy modeling. They are often multilateral, involving many negotiating parties with preferences over outcomes that can...
MORTGAGE LENDING IN BOSTON: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE EVIDENCE (1998)
Is there statistical evidence of racial discrimination in home mortgage markets? The Boston Fed recently addressed this concern head-on, by collecting all available data from loan applications...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel, Jel F, David Tarr, ...
The authors would like to thank the seminar participants at IPEA in Brasilia and BNDES in Rio de Janeiro, numerous agencies of the government of Brazil and Brazilian institutes and scholars
Trade Reform in the Partially Liberalized Economy of Turkey (1993)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Recent reforms in trade policy in Turkey have produced a foreign trade regime that exhibits very little antiexport bias on average. A quantitative, multisectoral general equilibrium model of the...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, David Tarr
Abstract: Using a multi-sector multi-country computable general equilibrium model, we examine Chile’s strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading...
Estimating Risk Attitudes in Denmark
E. Elisabet Rutstrom, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau
We estimate individual risk attitudes using controlled experiments in the field in Denmark. These risk preferences are elicited by means of field experiments involving real monetary rewards. The...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel
A multiregion computable general equilibrium model is used to evaluate the regional, multilateral, and unilateral trade policy options of Mercosur from the perspective of the welfare of all potential...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel
Using a multi-region CGE model, we evaluate the regional, multilateral and unilateral trade policy options of MERCOSUR from the perspective of the welfare of all potential partners. In Brazil, we...
Testing static game theory with dynamic experiments: a case study of public goods
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Lígia Pinto, Elisabet E. Rutstrom
Game theory provides predictions of behavior in many one-shot games. On the other hand, most experimenters usually play repeated games with subjects, to provide experience. To avoid subjects...
Social norms and social choice
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Lígia Pinto, Elisabet E. Rutstrom
Experiments can provide rich information on behavior conditional on the institutional rules of the game being imposed by the experimenter. We consider what happens when the subjects are allowed to...
Discounting in developing countries: a pilot experiment in Timor-Leste
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Lígia Pinto, Elisabet E. Rutstrom, Paula Veiga
We conduct laboratory experiments in Timor-Leste designed to test if individual discount rates vary with the time horizon for which the rate is elicited. Our experiments test a design that has been...
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr,David, Gurgel, Angelo
The authors estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, and multilateral trade policy changes will all be beneficial for Brazil. The Brazilian government...
Economic implications for Turkey of a customs union with the European Union
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Turkey and the European Union (EU) have agreed to implement a customs union. This means Turkey will eliminate its tariffs and levies on imports on manufactured products from the EU. Turkey will also...
Trade policy options for Chile : a quantitative evaluation
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Chile is currently evaluating a wide range of possible trade policies. Using a global computable general equilibrium model, the authors examine a range of trade policy and complementary tax policy...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, Tarr,David
Most interesting results on the welfare effects of regional arrangements are ambiguous at a theoretical level. Many questions only have quantitative answers that are specific to the particular...
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Using a multisector, computable general equilibrium model, the authors examine Chile's strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading partners (referring...
Evaluating the Tobacco Settlement Damage Awards: Too Much or Not Enough?
Coller, Maribeth, Harrison, Glenn W., McInnes, Melayne Morgan
Objectives. This study compared the present economic value of the 1998 tobacco settlement with the present economic value of the damages attributable to tobacco.
Evaluating the Tobacco Settlement Damage Awards: Too Much or Not Enough?
Coller, Maribeth, Harrison, Glenn W., McInnes, Melayne Morgan
Objectives. This study compared the present economic value of the 1998 tobacco settlement with the present economic value of the damages attributable to tobacco.
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
Using a multi-sector multi-country computable general equilibrium model, we examine Chile’s “additive regionalism” strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its...
Experimental Methods and Elicitation of Values
Glenn W. Harrison, Ronald M. Harstad, E. Elisabet Rutstr–m
Experimental methods are currently being extensively used to elicit subjective values for commodities and projects. Three methodological problems are not systematically addressed in this emerging...
JASMINKA SOHINGER, GLENN W. HARRISON
This article reviews the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Croatia. We place the Croatian experience within the context of FDI into transition economies and review the motivation of...
Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment
Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, Melayne M. McInnes, E. Elisabet Rutstrom
Piecemeal trade reform in partially liberalized economies : an evaluation for Turkey
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Turkey undertook a major liberalization of trade policy in the 1980s. Import quotas disappeared, the Turkish lira was made convertible, and tariffs are generally lower. Those changes and the export...
Quantifying the Uruguay Round.
Harrison, Glenn W, Rutherford, Thomas F, Tarr, David G
The effects of the Uruguay Round are quantified using a numerical general equilibrium model which incorporates increasing returns to scale, twenty-four regions, twenty-two commodities, and steady...
Trade Wars, Trade Negotiations and Applied Game Theory.
Harrison, Glenn W, Rutstrom, E E
The authors propose a methodological extension of quantitative "cost of protection" analyses to consider elementary game-theoretic aspects of the policy process. They illustrate these ideas by...
Search Intensity in Experiments.
Harrison, Glenn W, Morgan, Peter
The theoretical literature on the search behavior of workers and consumers typically considers three search strategies. These strategies are characterized by alternative assumptions about the...
Convergence to nonstationary competitive equilibria : An experimental analysis
Davis, Douglas D., Harrison, Glenn W., Williams, Arlington W.
Recent events have caused a reexamination of the role of programmed traders and futures markets in generating destabilizing price movements. Laboratory experiments provide an ideal environment to...
Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences
Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutström
We design experiments to jointly elicit risk and time preferences for the adult Danish population. Since subjects are generally risk averse, we find that joint elicitation provides estimates of...
Opciones de Política Comercial para Chile: Una Evaluación Cuantitativa
Glenn W Harrison, Thomas F Rutherford, David G Tarr
We examine the net economic benefits and government revenue implications for Chile of: (1) forming a free trade area with MERCOSUR; (2) forming a free trade area with NAFTA; and (3) reducing its...
Valuation using multiple price list formats
Steffen Anderson, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, Rutstrom E. Elisabet
We examine the properties of a popular method for elicitation of valuations from experimental subjects, the multiple price list format. The main advantages of this format are that it is relatively...
An Alternative Welfare Decomposition for Customs Unions.
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, Ian Wooton
The authors present a means of evaluating the effects of customs-union formation by a decomposition of the overall welfare effect into two components: the consequences of induced changes in domestic...
Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of Risk Aversion
Glenn W Harrison, John A List, Charles Towe
Does individual behavior in a laboratory setting provide a reliable indicator of behavior in a naturally occurring setting? We consider this general methodological question in the context of...
Estimating Risk Attitudes in Denmark: A Field Experiment
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutström
We estimate individual risk attitudes using controlled experiments in the field in Denmark. The experiments were carried out across Denmark using a representative sample of 253 people between 19 and...
Theory and Misbehavior of First-Price Auctions.
Recent experimental evidence appears to reject simple Nash equilibrium models of bidding behavior in first-price auctions. The author presents a methodological critique of this evidence. Existing...
Glenn W. Harrison, John A. List
Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context...
Bargaining behavior, demographics and nationality: a reconsideration of the experimental evidence
Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Marc A. Hirsch, Elisabet E. Rutstrom
Bargaining behavior appears to vary across nations. What drives these apparent differences? We reconsider the evidence provided by previous experiments, and undertake some new experiments that expand...
How robust is applied general equilibrium analysis?
Harrison, Glenn W., Jones, Richard, Kimbell, Larry J., Wigle, Randal
Hypothetical bias and willingness to accept
Nape, Steven, Frykblom, Peter, Harrison, Glenn W., Lesley, James C.
Monopoly Behavior, Decentralized Regulation, and Contestable Markets: An Experimental Evaluation
Glenn W. Harrison, Michael McKee
This study provides a comparative experimental evaluation of several alternative approaches to the (single-product) monopoly problem. We contrast incentive-compatible decentralized regulatory...
Cigarette Smoking and the Cost of Hospital and Physician Care
Glenn W. Harrison, James P. Feehan, Alison C. Edwards, Jorge Segovia
Smoking is widely known to affect health adversely. The consequent cost to the publicly funded Canadian health-care system is a matter of considerable policy interest. We consider two core elements...
Temporal stability of estimates of risk aversion
Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, Melayne M. McInnes, E. Elisabet Rutström
Estimates of risk aversion can be obtained from controlled laboratory experiments. The temporal stability of those preferences is assumed in many applications. This assumption is tested by eliciting...
The authors propose a method for estimating the population mean of a distribution of solution values from applied general equilibrium models subject to parameter uncertainty. The method is...
Trade Policy Options for Chile: The Importance of Market Access
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
This article uses a multisector, multicountry, computable general equilibrium model to examine Chile's strategy of "additive regionalism"--negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its...
Trade Reform in the Partially Liberalized Economy of Turkey.
Harrison, Glenn W, Rutherford, Thomas F, Tarr, David G
Recent reforms in trade policy in Turkey have produced a foreign trade regime that exhibits very little antiexport bias on average. A quantitative, multisectoral general equilibrium model of the...
Mortgage Lending in Boston: A Reconsideration of the Evidence.
Is there statistical evidence of racial discrimination in home mortgage markets? The Boston Fed recently addressed this concern head-on by collecting all available data from loan applications in...
Preference Heterogeneity in Experiments: Comparing the Field and Lab
Steffen Anderson, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Igel Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom
Economists recognize that preferences can differ across individuals. We examine the strengths and weaknesses of lab and field experiments to detect differences in preferences that are associated with...
Estimating Risk Attitudes in Denmark: A Field Experiment
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom
We estimate individual risk attitudes using controlled experiments in the field in Denmark. These risk preferences are elicited by means of field experiments involving real monetary rewards. The...
Dynamic Consistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom
Evidence that individuals have dynamically consistent preferences is usually generated by studying the discount rates of the individual over different horizons, but where those rates are elicited at...
Risk Attitudes, Randomization to Treatment, and Self-Selection Into Experiments
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom
Randomization to treatment is fundamental to statistical control in the design of experiments. But randomization implies some uncertainty about treatment condition, and individuals differ in their...
Estimating Individual Discount Rates in Denmark: A Field Experiment
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom, Melonie B. Williams
Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences Using Field Experiments: Some Methodological Issues
Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrom, Melonie B. Williams
We design experiments to jointly elicit risk and time preferences for the adult Danish population. The experimental procedures build on laboratory experiments that have been evaluated using...
Choice Under Uncertainty in Developing Countries
Glenn W. Harrison, Steven J. Humphrey
We review experimental evidence collected from risky choice experiments using poor subjects in Ethiopia, India and Uganda. Using these data we estimate that just over 50% of our sample behaves in...
LOST IN STATE SPACE: ARE PREFERENCES STABLE?
Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, E. Elisabet Rutström
We use field experiments to examine the temporal stability of risk preferences. Over a 17-month period, we elicited risk preferences from subjects chosen to be representative of the adult Danish...
Expectations and Fairness in a Simple Bargaining Experiment.
Harrison, Glenn W, McCabe, Kevin A
We evaluate two competing hypotheses that try to account for robust violations of the predictions of game theory in Ultimatum bargaining experiments. One popular hypothesis is that the subjects are...
Expected Utility Theory and the Experimentalists.
The experimental evidence against expected utility theory is, on balance, either uninformative or unconvincing. When one modifies the experiments to mitigate these criticisms the evidence tends to...
An Empirical Database for a General Equilibrium Model of the European Communities.
Harrison, Glenn W, Rutherford, Thomas F, Wooton, Ian
We document the main features of a database that has been constructed for use in an applied general equilibrium model. The model is designed to evaluate policies of the European Community (EC),...
Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse
Glenn W. Harrison, John A. List
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of experimental methods in the past two decades. An oft-cited reason for this rise in popularity is that experimental methods provide the necessary...
An Experimental Evaluation of Weakest Link/Best Shot Models of Public Goods.
Harrison, Glenn W, Hirshleifer, Jack
In the supply of public goods, far less free riding actually occurs than traditional theory predicts. As one explanation, the social composition function, which aggregates individual contributions...
Experimental Evidence on the Existence of Hypothetical Bias in Value Elicitation Methods
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutström, E. Elisabet, Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith
Trade Policy Options for Chile: The Importance of Market Access
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
This article uses a multisector, multicountry, computable general equilibrium model to examine Chile's strategy of "additive regionalism"---negotiating bilateral free trade...
Virtual experiments and environmental policy
Fiore, Stephen M., Harrison, Glenn W., Hughes, Charles E., Rutstrm, E. Elisabet
We develop the concept of virtual experiments and consider their application to environmental policy. A virtual experiment combines insights from virtual reality in computer science, naturalistic...
Behavioral Econometrics for Psychologists
Andersen, Steffen, Harrison, Glenn W., Lau, Morten Igel, Rutström, Elisabeth E.
We make the case that psychologists should make wider use of structural econometric methods. These methods involve the development of maximum likelihood estimates of models, where the likelihood...
Risk attitudes, randomization to treatment, and self-selection into experiments
Harrison, Glenn W., Lau, Morten I., Elisabet Rutström, E.
Randomization to treatment is fundamental to statistical control in the design of experiments. However randomization implies some uncertainty about treatment condition, and individuals differ in...
Testing static game theory with dynamic experiments: A case study of public goods
Botelho, Anabela, Harrison, Glenn W., Pinto, Lígia M. Costa, Rutström, Elisabet E.
Game theory provides predictions of behavior in many one-shot games. On the other hand, most experimenters usually play repeated games with subjects, to provide experience. To avoid subjects...
Hypothetical Surveys and Real Economic Commitments
Helen R. Neill, Ronald G. Cummings, Philip T. Ganderton, Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas McGuckin
We provide controlled laboratory evidence that open-ended hypothetical surveys do not always accurately elicit real economic commitments from individuals. We argue that they can provide biased...