Robert Gazzale
Assistant Professor of Economics
Office: South Academic Building Rm. 205
Webpage:
http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~rgazzale/
E-mail: rgazzale@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4375 d
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D, Economics, 2004
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.A., Economics, 2000
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, BSFS, International
Economics, 1990
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf)
Fields of Specialization
Applied Microeconomics
Industrial Organization
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Economics
Research
Working Papers
“Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring.” (PDF)
Publications
"Experiments in Learning from Others in Games," Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, March 2007-March 2009.
“When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting” with Yan Chen. The American Economic Review, 94(5), December 2004, pages 1505–1503. (PDF of earlier version.)
“Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. In Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rogríquez-Aguilar & William E. Walsh, eds., Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V: Designing Mechanisms and Systems. Springer Verlag, 2004. (PDF of earlier version.)
“Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing What to Learn,” with Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Edmund H. Durfee. Computational Intelligence, 18(4), 2002, pages 566–582. (PDF of earlier version.)
“Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Evidence from the Field,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Juan F. Riveros. In Ingo Vogelsand & Benjamin M. Compaine, eds., The Internet Upheaval. MIT Press, 2000. (PDF of earlier version.)
“System Design, User Costs, and Electronic Usage of Journals,” with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. In Wendy Lougee and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, eds., Title Forthcoming. MIT Press, forthcoming. (PDF of earlier version.)