Publications

David Reinstein and Chris M. Snyder, ‘The Influence of Expert Reviews on Consumer Demand for Experience Goods: A Case Study of Movie Critics”, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 53. No. 1, pp 27-51 (March 2005). Cartoon.

“Efficient Consumer Altruism and Fair Trade” with Joon Song [Essex]. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 21  Number 1, Spring 2012.
pdf | presentation slides | teaching slides | Cartoon

“Does One Contribution Come at the Expense of Another? Empirical Evidence on Substitution between Charitable Donations”, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 40. [Working paper here] [Supplementary Appendix here]

“Reputation and Influence in Charitable Giving: An Experiment” with Gerhard Riener [Univ. of Jena, Germany]. Theory and Decision, Volume 72, Issue 2 (2012), Page 221-243. pdf | presentation slides

“Decomposing Desert and Tangibility Effects in a Charitable Giving Experiment” with Gerhard Riener. Experimental Economics, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2012. pdf | Working paper version

“Anonymous Rituals” with David Hugh-Jones [Max Planck Institute for Economics, Jena, Germany]. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 81 (2012), pp. 478-489. pdf | Related cartoon

“The Economics of the Gift“ in: Gift giving and the “embedded” economy in the ancient world, edited by Filippo Carlà and Maja Gori, Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 83-99.

“Ex-ante Commitments to `Give if you Win’ Exceed Donations After a Win”

(Previously “Giving and Probability”) with Gerhard Riener, Mannheim; and Christian Kellner, Bonn/Southampton. Conditionally accepted, Journal of Public Economics (2018). Pre-publication WP updated (2018) | slides (academic but short)

Working Papers

(for PDF’s click on links)

“Losing Face” with Thomas Gall, Southampton. pdf most recent version | pdf UoE DP | Presentation slides

“Exclude the Bad Actors or Learn About the Group” with David Hugh-Jones. Pdf most recent version | Presentation slides | pdf Essex DP | Online appendix pdf (older version)

“Listen to the Market, Hear the Best Policy Decision, but Don’t Always Choose it” with Joon Song, SKKU. PDF most recent version | pdf UoE DP | Online Appendix pdf

“Substitution Among Charitable Contributions: An Experimental Study.” Presentation slides | Wave 1 screenshots | PDF (updated 2012)

“Worth 1000 Words: The effect of social cues on a fundraising campaign in a government agency. A field experiment” with Michael Sanders, Harvard-JFK and Alex Tupper. pdf

The Government May Want to Encourage Price Discrimination by Income. Discussion paper | Simple version