C. BRAM CADSBY

Professor of Economics

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Bram Cadsby has a B.Sc. (Econ.) from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from Queen's University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently working on the effect of compensation schemes on productivity and misrepresentation, guilt and shame as deterrents to tax evasion, the value of information about others’ demands on and expectations of oneself, overconfidence and bargaining in financial settings, and trust, reciprocity and social distance.

His research has been published in journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Academy of Management Journal , Experimental Economics and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Selected Research

“Tax Compliance and Obedience to Authority at Home and in the Lab: A New Experimental Approach,” with Elizabeth Maynes and Viswanath Umashanker Trivedi, Experimental Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2006), pp. 343-359.

“Sorting and Incentive Effects of Pay-for-Performance: An Experimental Investigation,” with Fei Song and Francis Tapon, Academy of Management Journal, (2007), Vol. 50, No. 2, 387-405.

“Competitive burnout: theory and experimental evidence,” with J. Atsu Amegashie and Yang Song, Games and Economic Behavior, (2007), Vol 59, 213-239.

“Step Return versus Net Reward in the Voluntary Provision of a Threshold Public Good: An Adversarial Collaboration,” with Rachel Croson, Melanie Marks and Elizabeth Maynes, Public Choice, (2008), Vol. 135, No. 3-4, 277-289.