Chris Starmer's Publications

Books

Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules, in press, Princeton University Press.

Enrica Carbone and Chris Starmer (Eds.) New Developments in Experimental Economics, September 2007, Edward Elgar.

Published Papers

Nicholas Bardsley, Judith Mehta, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning", forthcoming, Economic Journal.

Jacinto Braga and Steve Humphrey and Chris Starmer, "Market Experience Eliminates Some Anomalies - And Creates New Ones", forthcoming, European Economic Review.

Simon Gächter, Henrik Orzen, Elke Renner and Chris. Starmer, "Are Experimental Economists Prone to Framing Effects? A Natural Field Experiment", forthcoming, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.

Expected Utility and Freidman's Risky Methodology. In U. Maki (ed.) The Methodology of Positive Economics: Milton Friedman's Essay After Half a Century. forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

Ulrich Schmidt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Third-Generation Prospect Theory" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 36, 203–223, 2008.

"Preference Reversal", New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume . Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Ian Bateman, Sam Dent, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic and Chris Starmer, "The Affect Heuristic and the Attractiveness of Simple Gambles", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 20(4), 365-380, 2007.

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Anchoring and yea-saying with private goods: an experiment". In J. A . List (ed.) Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2006.

Braga, Jactino and Chris Starmer, "Preference anomalies, preference elicitation and the discovered preference hypothesis", Environmental and Resource Economics, 32, 55-89, 2005.

Starmer, Chris, "Normative Notions in Descriptive Dialogues", Journal of Economic Methodology, 12, 227-89, 2005.

Ian Bateman, Daniel Kahneman, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer, Robert Sugden, "Testing competing models of loss aversion: An adversarial collaboration", Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1561-1580, 2005.

Cubitt, Robin P., Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Dynamic Decisions: some recent evidence from economics and psychology". In Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo (eds) The Psychology of Economic Decisions. Vol 2: Reasons and Choices, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Robin Cubitt, Alistair Munro and Chris Starmer, "Testing Explanations of Preference Reversal", Economic Journal, 114, 709-26, 2004.

Loomes, Graham, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets", Economic Journal, 113, C153-C166, 2003.

Cubitt, Robin, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Discovered preferences and the experimental evidence of violations of expected utility theory", Journal of Economic Methodology, 8, 385-414, 2001.

Starmer, Chris. "Developments in non-expected utility theory: the hunt for a descriptive theory of choice under risk", Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVIII, 332-382, 2000.

Bateman, Ian, Ian Langford, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Estimating Four Hicksian Welfare Measures for a Public Good: A contingent valuation investigation", Land Economics, 76, 355-73, 2000.

Starmer, Chris, "Experiments in Economics: should we trust the dismal scientists in white coats?", Journal of Economic Methodology, 6, 1-30, 1999.

Starmer, Chris. "Experimental Economics: hard science or wasteful tinkering?", Economic Journal, 109, f5-f15, 1999.

Starmer, Chris. "Cycling with Rules of Thumb: An Experimental Test for a New From of Non-Transitive Behaviour", Theory and Decision, 46, 141-158, 1999.

Cubitt, Robin, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "On the Validity of the Random Lottery Incentive System", Experimental Economics, 1, 115-31, 1998.

McDaniel, Tanga, and Chris Starmer, "Experimental Economics and Deception: A Comment", Journal of Economic Psychology, 19, 403-9, 1998.

Cubitt, Robin, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "Dynamic Choice and The Common Ratio Effect", 24, Economic Journal, 108, 1362-1380, 1998.

Starmer, Chris and Robert Sudgen, "Testing Alternative Explanations of Cyclical Choices", Economica, 65, 347-61, 1998.

Starmer, Chris, "The Economics of Risk", Ch 12 in P. Callow (ed.) The Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, pp. 319-44, Blackwell, 1998.

Bateman, Ian, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "A Test of the Theory of Reference Dependent Preferences", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 479-505, 1997.

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? - An Experimental Investigation". Economic Journal, Conference Volume, 107, 322-31, 1997.

Starmer, Chris, "Explaining Risky Choices Without Assuming Preferences", Social Choice and Welfare, 13, 201-13, 1996.

Mehta, Judith, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games", The American Economic Review, 84, 658-74, 1994.

Mehta, Judith, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "Focal Points in Pure Coordination Games: An Experimental Investigation", Theory and Decision, 36, 163-85, 1994.

Starmer, Chris, "The Psychology of Uncertainty in Economic Theory: A Critical Appraisal and a Fresh Approach", Review of Political Economy, 5, 181-196, 1993.

Starmer, Chris, and Robert Sudgen, "Testing for Juxtaposition Effects and Event-Splitting Effects", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 6, 235-54, 1993. Abstract

Starmer, Chris, "Testing New Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty Using the Common Consequence effect", Review of Economic Studies, 59, 813-30, 1992.

Mehta, Judith, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "An Experimental Investigation of Focal Points in coordination and Bargaining: Some Preliminary Results", in J. Geweke (ed) Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Findings, pp. 211-220. Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992.

Loomes, Graham, Chris Starmer and Robert Sudgen, "Are Preferences Monotonic: Testing some implications of regret theory", Economica, 59, 17-33, 1992.

Loomes, Graham, Chris Starmer, and Robert Sudgen, "Observing Violations of Transitivity By Experimental Methods", Econometrica, 59, 425-439, March 1991.

Starmer, Chris and Robert Sudgen, "Probability and Juxtaposition Effects: An Experimental Investigation of The Common Ratio Effect", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2, 159-78, 1989.

Starmer, Chris, and Robert Sudgen, "Violations of the Independence Axiom in Common Ratio Problems: An Experimental Test of some Competing Hypotheses", Annals of Operational Research, 19, 79-102, 1989.

Starmer, Chris and Robert Sugden, "Does the Random-Lottery Incentive System Elicit True Preferences?", American Economic Review, 81, 971-79, September 1991.

Loomes, Graham, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Preference Reversal: Information Processing or Rational Non-Transitive Choice?", Economic Journal, 99, Supplement, 140-51, 1989.

Appleby, Linda, and Chris Starmer, "Individual Choice Under Uncertainty: A Review of Experimental Evidence, Past and Present", in Surveys in the Economics of Uncertainty, pp. 25-45. (eds) John. D. Hey and Peter. Lambert, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.


Papers Reprinted in Collections

Chris Starmer, "Developments in non-expected utility theory: the hunt for a descriptive theory of choice under risk". Abridged version of JEL 2000 paper, reprinted in: (1) Colin F. Camerer, George F Loewenstein and Matthew Rabin (eds.), Advances in Behavioral Economics, Princeton University Press, 2004; (2) M. Allingham (ed), Rational Choice Theory, forthcoming, Routledge, 2006.

Bateman, Ian, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "A Test of the Theory of Reference Dependent Preferences" to be reprinted in D. Kahneman and A. Tversky (eds) Choices, Values, and Frames. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden, "Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? - An Experimental Investigation". Reprinted in: (i) Willis, K.G., Button, K.J. and Nijkamp, P. (eds.) Environmental Valuation, Volume 1, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1999; (ii) R. T. Carson ed. The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation Voume II: Conceptual and Empirical Issues Aldershot: Ashgate, (forthcoming) 2007.


3. Working Papers

Various working papers are available as CeDEx Discussion Papers


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