Robert J. Oxoby is associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary. He is research fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being (SIIWB), the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, and the Institute for Advanced Policy Research. He is the director of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Lab at the University of Calgary, and the chairman of the The Road Foundation which engages in fund raising activities to purchase therapy and capital equipment for children with special needs.

Research

• Refereed Articles:
  1. Game Theory for Playing Games: Bounding Rationality in a Negative Externality Experiment with John Spraggon, forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
  2. The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic, forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
  3. Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference, forthcoming in Labour Economics.
  4. Mine and Yours: Property Rights in Dictator Games, with John Spraggon, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
  5. On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson, forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
  6. The Effects of Recommended Play on Compliance with Ambient Pollution Instruments, with John Spraggon, forthcoming in Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics, T. Cherry, S. Kroll and J. Shogren (eds.), New York: Routledge.
  7. Measuring Impatience: Elicited Discount Rates and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, with Kendra N. McLeish, Personality and Individual Differences, August 2007, 43(3): 553-565.
  8. Developing Heuristic-Based Quality Judgements: Blocking in Consumer Choice, with Hugh Finnigan, Psychology and Marketing, April 2007, 24(4): 295-313.
  9. Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise, with Humberto Llavador, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005, 120(3).
  10. Status, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Growth of the Underclass, The Economic Journal, October 2004, 114(498): 727--749.
  11. Specific Decision and Strategy Vector Methods in Ultimatum Bargaining: Evidence on the Strength of Other-Regarding Behavior,'' with Kendra N. McLeish, Economics Letters, September 2004, 84(3): 399--405.
  12. Attitudes and Allocations: Status, Cognitive Dissonance and the Manipulation of Preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 2003, 52(3): 365--385.
  13. Status Characteristics, Cognitive Biases, and Incentives in Teams, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2002, 31(3): 301--316.
  14. A Monopoly Classroom Experiment, Journal of Economic Education, 2001, 32(2): 160--168.
• Working Papers:
  • Department of Economics working papers
  • Institute for Advanced Policy Research
  • Working papers on IDEAS
  • working papers at IZA
  • working papers from the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Lab
• Links to specific papers:
  1. Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects with David Dickinson, IZA working paper 2832.
  2. Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach with Kendra McLeish, IZA working paper 2663.
  3. Identity, Cooperation, and Punishment with Kendra McLeish, IZA working paper 2572.
  4. On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson
  5. Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
  6. A Clear and Present Minority: Hetrogeneity in the Source of Endowments and the Provision of Public Goods",, Robert J. Oxoby and John Spraggon.
  7. Paretian Dictators: Constraining Choice in a Voluntary Contribution Game, Robert J. oxoby
  8. Stereotypes in Intertemporal Choice, Kendra N. McLeish and Robert J. Oxoby
  9. Trust and the Structure of Incentives, Robert J. Oxoby and Colette Friedrich
  10. Learning and Convergence to Nash Equilibria with Minimal Information, John R. Boyce and Robert J. Oxoby
  11. Passing the Time: Other-Regarding Behavior and the Sunk Cost of Time , Robert J. Oxoby and Diane P. Bischak
  12. Developing Heuristic-Based Quality Judgements: Attention Blocking in Consumer Choice, Robert J. Oxoby and Hugh Finnigan