Ngo, Jacqueline, and Alexander Smith (2020). "A Public Good Game with Technological Growth." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 84(1), ??. [Link]
Somasse, Gbetonmasse B., Alexander Smith, and Zachary Chapman (2018). "Characterizing Actions in a Dynamic Common Pool Resource Game." Games, 9(4), 101. [Link]
de Oliveira, Angela C. M., Alexander Smith, and John Spraggon (2017). "Reward the Lucky - The Effect of Delegated Risk-taking on Altruism." Journal of Economic Psychology, 62(1), 87-97.[Link]
Smith, Alexander, and Xi Wen (2017). "Investing in Institutions for Cooperation." Journal of the Economic Science Association, 3(1), 75-87.[Link]
Chaudhuri, Ananish, Tirnud Paichayontvijit, and Alexander Smith (2017). "Belief Heterogeneity and Contributions Decay Among Conditional Cooperators in Public Goods Games." Journal of Economic Psychology, 58(1), 15-30. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2015). "Contribution Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Contributions in Repeated Public Good Games." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58(1), 149-157. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2015). "Modeling the Dynamics of Contributions and Beliefs in Repeated Public Good Games." Economics Bulletin, 35(3), 1501-1509. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2015). "On the Nature of Pessimism in Taking and Giving Games." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 54(1), 50-57. [Link]
Saeed, Khalid, Oleg Pavlov, Jeanine Skorinko, and Alexander Smith (2013). "Farmers, Bandits and Soldiers: A Generic System for Addressing Peace Agendas." System Dynamics Review, 29(4), 237-252. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2013). "Estimating the Causal Effect of Beliefs on Contributions in Repeated Public Good Games." Experimental Economics, 16(3), 414-425. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2013). "Reciprocity Effects in the Trust Game." Games, 4(3), 367-374. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2012). "The Changing Effects of Community Characteristics on Volunteering in Canada." Canadian Public Policy, 38(3), 361-373. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2012). "Comment on Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments." Economics Bulletin, 32(1), 923-931. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2011). "Group Composition and Conditional Cooperation." Journal of Socio-Economics, 40(5), 616-622. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2011). "Identifying In-Group and Out-Group Effects in the Trust Game." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 11(1)-Topics, Article 38. [Link]
Smith, Alexander (2011). "Income Inequality in the Trust Game." Economics Letters, 111(1), 54-56. [Link]
Working Papers
"Pro-Social Behavior Across Four Common Games." Morgan Brokaw (WPI Alum), Nicol Garcia (WPI Alum), and Alexander Smith. We have subjects play dictator, ultimatum, trust, and public good games using the strategy method with role reversal. We find high correlation in individual level decisions across games. We also learn that subjects’ "types" in the trust game are predictive of their types in the public good game. However, we obtain mixed results on the potential to predict subjects’ types using their decisions from other games, indicating that there are limits on the extent to which individual level data from some games is useful for making predictions about others.
work in Progress
"Managing the Infrastructure for Team Production"