My dissertation research was inspired by the successful management of a common-pool resource by Maine lobster fishermen and analyzes the factors that contributed to this success as well as provides analysis of human behavior in an experimental setting created to simulate this industry. An experiment that constitutes part of my dissertation was included in the NSF grant proposal BCS-0821968 “Evolution of Norms and Conservation Rules in Two Fisheries” 2008-2011. As many other after the defense, I am currently working on turning chapters of my dissertation into publishable papers..

 

Current research in progress

“Problems of the Commons: Group Behavior, Cooperation and Punishment in a Two-Harbor Experiment”, with Roy J. Gardner, working paper

 

“Stability of Equilibria in the Experimental Common-Pool Resource Environment”, presented at Indiana University Jordan River Conference, April 24, 2006

 

Older research

 

“Welfare Effects of Government Regulation in Ukraine: A Case of Sugar Industry”, 2006 updated version

 

Something potentially interesting

 

“The Not so Cheap Talk: Effects of Informal Punishment is Small Groups in Real Life and Experiments” - working paper currently unavailable