Dr. Bradley J. Ruffle
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Office Address: | Department of Economics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel |
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| Office Location: | Marcus Campus, Building 72, Room 451 | |
| Tel: | +972-8-647-2308 | |
| Fax: | +972-8-647-2941 | |
| JFax: | +1-917-591-8151 | |
| E-Mail: | bradley@bgu.ac.il |
CV |
Research Interests |
Education |
Editorial Position |
Publications
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Papers under Review |
Working Papers |
Book Reviews |
Teaching
- Experimental Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Industrial Organization
- Economics of Religion
- Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University, 1996
- M.A. in Economics, Princeton University, 1993
- B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, York University, Glendon College, Canada, 1991
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Organization (Dec. 2006 - present)
- Kaplan, Todd R. and Bradley J. Ruffle "In search of welfare-improving gifts," European Economic Review. [Article]
- Normann, Hans-Theo, Bradley J. Ruffle and Christopher M. Snyder (2007) "Do Buyer-Size Discounts Depend on the Curvature of the Surplus Function? Experimental Tests of Bargaining Models", RAND Journal of Economics, 38:3, 747-767. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. and Richard Sosis (2007) "Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 18. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. and Ze'ev Shtudiner (2006) "99: Are Retailers Best Responding to Rational Consumers? Experimental Evidence," Managerial and Decision Economics, 27:6, 459-475. [Article], [Discussion of Future Research].
- Ruffle, Bradley J. and Richard Sosis (2006) "Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60:2, 147-163. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (2005) "Tax and Subsidy Incidence Equivalence Theories: Experimental Evidence from Competitive Markets," Journal of Public Economics, 89:8, 1519-1542. [Article]
- Sosis, Richard and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) “Reply: Religious Ritual and Cooperation," Current Anthropology, 45:4, 529-530.
- Sosis, Richard and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) "Ideology, Religion and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Experiments on Israeli Kibbutzim," Research in Economic Anthropology, 23, 89-117.
- Kaplan, Todd R. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2004) "The Self-Serving Bias and Beliefs about Rationality," Economic Inquiry, 42:2, 237-246. [Article]
- Sosis, Richard H. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2003) “Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim," Current Anthropology, 44:5, 713-722. [Article]
- Tykocinski, Orit E. and Bradley J. Ruffle (2003) "Reasonable Reasons for Waiting," Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 16, 1-11. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (2003) "Competitive Equilibrium and Classroom Pit-Market Experiments," Journal of Economic Education, 34:2, 123-137. [Article], [Accompanying Materials]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (2000) "Some Factors Affecting Demand Withholding in Posted-Offer Markets," Economic Theory, 16:3, 529-544. [Article], [Uncut Version]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. and Orit Tykocinski (March 2000) "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment," American Economic Review, 90:1, 319-324. [Article], [Unpublished Version], [Appendices].
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (1999) "Gift Giving with Emotions," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39:4, 399-420. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (1998) "More Is Better, But Fair Is Fair: Tipping in Dictator and Ultimatum Games," Games and Economic Behavior, 23, 247-265. [Article]
- Kaplan, Todd and Bradley Ruffle (Spring 1998) "Self-Serving Bias [Comment]," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12:2, 243-244. [Article]
- Ruffle, Bradley J. (forthcoming) "Buyer Countervailing Power: A Survey of the Theory and Experimental Evidence," in Experiments and Antitrust Policy, J. Hinloopen and H.-T. Normann (eds.), Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. [Article]
- "The Strategies Behind their Actions: A New Method to Infer Repeated-Game Strategies and an Application to Buyer Behavior", with Jim Engle-Warnick. [Article]
- "Buyer Concentration as a Source of Countervailing Power: Evidence from Experimental Posted-Offer Markets", with Jim Engle-Warnick. [Article]
- "Which Way to Cooperate," with Todd R. Kaplan. [Article]
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- "Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation", by Bruno J. Frey, Edward Elgar, 1997, European Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 15:2, 379-380. [Book Review]
- "Gandhi's Economic Thought" by Ajit DasGupta, Routledge, 1996, in Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 7:4, 451-453, 1998. [Book Review]
Graduate Courses
- Experimental Economics
Undergraduate Courses
- Experimental Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Introduction to Microeconomics