Thomas R. Palfrey
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science
Division of the Humanities and Social
Sciences
California Institute of Technology
E-mail: trp at
hss.caltech.edu
Office: 301A Baxter Hall
Phone: (626) 395-4088
Fax: (626) 405-9841
Some
recent publications
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium (with M.-J. Fong and P.-H. Lin), American Economic Review, August 2025, 115(8), 2616-2658. Online Appendix.
Welfare in the Volunteer’s Dilemma (with M. Battaglini), May 2025 Journal of Public Economics, 245.
Cognitive Hierarchies for
Games in Extensive Form (with P.-H.
Lin), 2024. Journal of
Economic Theory, 220 (September):
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2024.105871.
Organizing for Collective Action: Olson Revisited (with M. Battaglini), 2024. Journal of Political Economy, 132 (9): 2881-2936. Online Appendix.
Prisoners’ Dilemma and Coordination Games Played by Teams of Players (with J. Kim), 2024. Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming.
Bilateral Conflict: An
Experimental Study of Strategic Effectiveness and Equilibrium (with C. Holt), 2024. American Journal of
Political Science, 64 (4): 1431-1446.
Games Played by Teams of Players (with J. Kim and J. Zeidel), 2022. AEJ: Microeconomics, 14 (November): 122-157.
Trading Votes for Votes: A Laboratory Study (with A. Casella), 2021, Games and Economic Behavior, 125 (January):1-26.
Some recent working papers
Crisis
Bargaining with Collective Decision Making
(with J. Kim and J. Zeidel), Working Paper, November 2025.
Dynamic Collective Action and the Power of Large Numbers (with M. Battaglini), Working Paper, September 2025, Supplementary Appendix.
Strategic Complexity
Promotes Egalitarianism in Legislative Bargaining (with M. Agranov, N. Ali,
and B.D. Bernheim), NBER Working Paper # 34083, August 2025.
Strategy Method Effects in Centipede Games: An Optimal Design Approach (with S.-H. Hu, P.-H. Lin, J. Wang, and Y.-H. Wang, Working Paper, arXiv:2508.06425,
August 2025.