Chris Starmer

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Biography

Chris joined the University of Nottingham in 2000. He was previously Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in economics at the University of East Anglia. His main research interests are in individual and strategic decision making, experimental economics and the methodology of economics. He has published a range of papers including articles in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economica, Journal of Economic Literature, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Review of Economic Studies.

Professor Starmer's complete CV can be downloaded here in pdf format.

Recent Publications

• NICHOLAS BARDSLEY, ROBIN CUBITT, PETER MOFFATT, GRAHAM LOOMES, CHRIS STARMER and ROBERT SUGDEN, 2011. A response to Binmore, Harrison and Ross on Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules Journal of Economic Methodology. 18(2), 195-199
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets Journal of Economic Psychology. VOL 31(NUMBER 3), 374-387
• BARDSLEY, N., CUBITT, R., LOOMES, G. MOFFATT, P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Experimental Economics: rethinking the rules Pinceton: Princeton University Press.
• BARDSLEY, N., MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning Economic Journal. VOL 120(NUMBER 543), 40-79

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• NICHOLAS BARDSLEY, ROBIN CUBITT, PETER MOFFATT, GRAHAM LOOMES, CHRIS STARMER and ROBERT SUGDEN, 2011. A response to Binmore, Harrison and Ross on Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules Journal of Economic Methodology. 18(2), 195-199
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets Journal of Economic Psychology. VOL 31(NUMBER 3), 374-387
• BARDSLEY, N., CUBITT, R., LOOMES, G. MOFFATT, P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Experimental Economics: rethinking the rules Pinceton: Princeton University Press.
• BARDSLEY, N., MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2010. Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning Economic Journal. VOL 120(NUMBER 543), 40-79
• GAECHTER, SIMON, ORZEN, HENRIK, RENNER, ELKE and STARMER, CHRIS, 2009. Are Experimental Economists Prone to Framing Effects? A Natural Field Experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 70(3), 443-446
• BRAGA, J., HUMPHREY, S. J. and STARMER, C., 2009. Market experience eliminates some anomalies-and creates new ones European Economic Review. VOL 53(NUMBER 4), 401-416
• SCHMIDT, U., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2008. Third-generation prospect theory Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. VOL 36(NUMBER 3), 203-223
• BATEMAN, I, DENT, S., PETERS, E., SLOVIC, P. and STARMER, C., 2007. The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 20(4), 365-380 (In Press.)
• BATEMAN, I., KAHNEMAN, D., MUNRO, A., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2005. Testing competing models of loss aversion: an adversarial collaboration Journal of Public Economics. 89(8), 1561-1580
• BRAGA, J. and STARMER, C., 2005. Preference Anomalies, Preference Elicitation and the Discovered Preference Hypothesis Environmental and Resource Economics. VOL 32(NUMBER 1), 55-89
• CHRIS STARMER, 2005. Normative notions in descriptive dialogues Journal of Economic Methodology. 12(2), 227-89
• CUBITT, R.P., MUNRO, A. and STARMER, C., 2004. Testing explanations of preference reversal Economic Journal. 114(497), 709-726
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2003. Do anomalies disappear in repeated markets? Economic Journal. 113(486), C153-C166
• CUBITT, R.P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2001. Discovered preferences and the experimental evidence of violations of expected utility theory Journal of Economic Methodology. 8(3), 385-414
• STARMER, C., 2000. Developments in Non-Expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk Journal of Economic Literature. VOL 38(PART 2), 332-382
• BATEMAN, I. J., LANGFORD, I. H., MUNRO, A., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 2000. Estimating Four Hicksian Welfare Measures for a Public Good: A Contingent Valuation Investigation Land Economics. VOL 76(PART 3), 355-373
• STARMER, C., 1999. Cycling with Rules of Thumb: An Experimental Test for a New Form of Non-transitive Behavior Theory and Decision. VOL 46(NUMBER 2), 141-158
• STARMER, C., 1999. Experimental Economics: Hard Science or Wasteful Tinkering? Economic Journal. ISSUE 453, F5-F15
• STARMER, C., 1999. Experiments in Economics: Should we trust the dismal scientists? Journal of Economic Methodology. 6, 1-30
• CUBITT, R. P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. Dynamic Choice and the Common Ratio Effect: An Experimental Investigation Economic Journal. 108, 1362-1380
• STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. Testing Alternative Explanations of Cyclical Choices Economica. VOL 65(ISSUE 259), 347-362
• CUBITT, R. P., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1998. On the Validity of the Random Lottery Incentive System Experimental Economics. VOL 1(NUMBER 2), 115-132
• TANGA MCDANIEL and CHRIS STARMER, 1998. Experimental economics and deception: A comment Journal of Economic Psychology. 19(3), 403-409
• BATEMAN, I., MUNRO, A., RHODES, B., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1997. A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences The Quarterly Journal of Economics. VOL 112(NUMBER 2), 479-506
• BATEMAN, I., MUNROE, A., RHODES, B., STARMER, C. and SUDGEN, R., 1997. Does Part-whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation Economic Journal. ISSUE 441, 322-332
• STARMER, C., 1996. Explaining risky choices without assuming preferences Social Choice and Welfare. VOL 13(NUMBER 2), 201-214
• MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1994. The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games American Economic Review. VOL 84(NUMBER 3), 658-74
• MEHTA, J., STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1994. Focal Points in Pure Coordination Games: An Experimental Investigation Theory and Decision. VOL 36(NUMBER 2), 163-85
• STARMER, C., 1993. The psychology of uncertainty in economic theory: a critical appraisal and a fresh approach Review of Political Economy. VOL 5(NUMBER 2), 181-96
• STARMER, C. and SUGDEN, R., 1993. Testing for Juxtaposition and Event-Splitting Effects Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. VOL 6(NUMBER 3), 235-54
• LOOMES, G., STARMER, C and SUGDEN, R., 1992. Are Preferences Montonic: Testing some implications of regret theory Economica. 59, 17-33 (In Press.)
• STARMER, C., 1992. Testing New Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty Using the Common Consequence Effect Review of Economic Studies. 59, 813-30
• CHRIS STARMER, ROBERT SUGDEN and GRAHAM LOOMES, 1991. Observing Violations of Transitivity By Experimental Methods Econometrica. 59, 425-39
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1991. Does the Random-Lottery Incentive System Elicit True Preferences? American Economic Review. 81, 971-79
• LOOMES, G and STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Preference Reversal: Information Processing or Rational Non-Transitive Choice? Economic Journal. 140-51
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Probability and Juxtaposition Effects: An Experimental Investigation of The Common Ratio Effect Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 2, 159-78
• STARMER, C. AND SUGDEN, R., 1989. Violations of the Independence Axiom in Common Ratio Problems: An Experimental Test of some Competing Hypotheses Annals of Operations Research. 19, 79-102
• ROBIN CUBITT, MARIA RUIZ MARTOS and CHRIS STARMER, are bygones bygones? Theory and Decision.