Robert Gazzale

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: Fernald 13
Webpage: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~rgazzale/index.html
E-mail: rgazzale@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4375 d
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
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

Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics
Information Economics
Public Finance

Research

Working Papers

“Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring.” (PDF)

Publications

“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.)

de Brauw, Alan, Jikun Huang, and Scott Rozelle, "Responsiveness, Flexibility, and Market Liberalization in China's Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(5), 1133-1139, December 2000.

Rozelle, Scott, J. Edward Taylor, and Alan de Brauw, "Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 89(2) 267-71, May 1999.

Tang, Xianzhu, Gene Tracy, David Boozer, Alan de Brauw, and Reggie Brown, "Symbol Sequence Statistics in Noisy Chaotic Signal Reconstruction," Physical Review E 51(5):3871-3889, 1995.

Tang, Xianzhu, Gene Tracy, David Boozer, Alan de Brauw, and Reggie Brown, "Reconstruction of Chaotic Signals using Symbolic Data," Physics

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