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Caroline D. Thomas

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First Name:Caroline
Middle Name:D.
Last Name:Thomas
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RePEc Short-ID:pth207
https://sites.google.com/site/carotho14/
Terminal Degree:2011 Department of Economics; University College London (UCL) (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Economics
University of Texas-Austin

Austin, Texas (United States)
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/economics/
RePEc:edi:deutxus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Bhaskar, Venkataraman & Thomas, Caroline, 2018. "The culture of overconfidence," CEPR Discussion Papers 12740, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Bhaskar, Venkataraman & Thomas, Caroline, 2017. "The Design of Credit Information Systems," CEPR Discussion Papers 11849, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Caroline D. Thomas, 2010. "Strategic Experimentation with Congestion," Department of Economics Working Papers 130813, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Aug 2013.
  4. Caroline D. Thomas, 2009. "N-Dimensional Blotto Game with Asymmetric Battlefield Values," Department of Economics Working Papers 130116, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2016.
  5. Caroline D. Thomas, "undated". "Career Concerns and Policy Intransigence - A Dynamic Signalling Model," Department of Economics Working Papers 161228, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2016.
  6. Caroline D. Thomas & Martin W. Cripps, "undated". "Strategic Experimentation in Queues," Department of Economics Working Papers 140228, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2016.

Articles

  1. Caroline D. Thomas, 2021. "Strategic Experimentation with Congestion," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(1), pages 1-82, February.
  2. Thomas, Caroline, 2020. "Stopping with congestion and private payoffs," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 18-42.
  3. Krainin, Colin & Thomas, Caroline & Wiseman, Thomas, 2020. "Rational Quagmires: Attrition, Learning, and War," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 15(3), pages 369-400, July.
  4. V Bhaskar & Caroline Thomas, 2019. "Community Enforcement of Trust with Bounded Memory," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 86(3), pages 1010-1032.
  5. Cripps, Martin W. & Thomas, Caroline D., 2019. "Strategic experimentation in queues," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 14(2), May.
  6. Thomas, Caroline, 2019. "Experimentation with reputation concerns – Dynamic signalling with changing types," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 366-415.
  7. V. Bhaskar & Caroline Thomas, 2019. "The Culture of Overconfidence," American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 95-110, June.
  8. Caroline Thomas, 2018. "N-dimensional Blotto game with heterogeneous battlefield values," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 65(3), pages 509-544, May.
  9. Balázs Szentes & Caroline D. Thomas, 2013. "An Evolutionary Theory of Suicide," Games, MDPI, vol. 4(3), pages 1-11, August.
  10. Guéron, Yves & Lamadon, Thibaut & Thomas, Caroline D., 2011. "On the folk theorem with one-dimensional payoffs and different discount factors," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 73(1), pages 287-295, September.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Bhaskar, Venkataraman & Thomas, Caroline, 2018. "The culture of overconfidence," CEPR Discussion Papers 12740, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Thomas, Caroline, 2019. "Experimentation with reputation concerns – Dynamic signalling with changing types," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 366-415.
    2. Danz, David, 2020. "Never underestimate your opponent: Hindsight bias causes overplacement and overentry into competition," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 588-603.

  2. Bhaskar, Venkataraman & Thomas, Caroline, 2017. "The Design of Credit Information Systems," CEPR Discussion Papers 11849, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Sergey Kovbasyuk & Giancarlo Spagnolo, 2021. "Memory And Markets," Working Papers w0284, New Economic School (NES).

  3. Caroline D. Thomas, 2010. "Strategic Experimentation with Congestion," Department of Economics Working Papers 130813, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Aug 2013.

    Cited by:

    1. Atal, Vidya & Bar, Talia & Gordon, Sidartha, 2016. "Project selection: Commitment and competition," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 30-48.
    2. Caroline D Thomas, 2010. "Strategic Experimentation with Congestion," Department of Economics Working Papers 130907, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised 04 Nov 2014.
    3. Noda, Shunya, 2022. "Strategic experimentation with random serial dictatorship," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 115-125.
    4. Quitz'e Valenzuela-Stookey, 2020. "Screening and Information-Sharing Externalities," Papers 2011.04013, arXiv.org.
    5. Heidhues, Paul & Rady, Sven & Strack, Philipp, 2012. "Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 387, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
    6. Caroline D. Thomas & Martin W. Cripps, "undated". "Strategic Experimentation in Queues," Department of Economics Working Papers 140228, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2016.
    7. Das, Kaustav & Klein, Nicolas & Schmid, Katharina, 2024. "Strategic experimentation with asymmetric safe options," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).

  4. Caroline D. Thomas, 2009. "N-Dimensional Blotto Game with Asymmetric Battlefield Values," Department of Economics Working Papers 130116, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2016.

    Cited by:

    1. Subhasish M. Chowdhury & Dan Kovenock & David Rojo Arjona & Nathaniel T. Wilcox, 2016. "Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-battle Contests," Working Papers 16-16, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
    2. Todd R. Kaplan & Shmuel Zamir, 2014. "Advances in Auctions," Discussion Paper Series dp662, The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
    3. Osório Costa, Antonio Miguel, 2013. "The Lottery Blotto Game," Working Papers 2072/211806, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
    4. Maria Montero & Alex Possajennikov & Martin Sefton & Theodore Turocy, 2013. "Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields: An Experiment," Discussion Papers 2013-12, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
    5. Dan J. Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2015. "The Optimal Defense of Network Connectivity," CESifo Working Paper Series 5653, CESifo.
    6. Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2015. "Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games," Working Papers 15-07, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
    7. Avrahami, Judith & Kareev, Yaakov & Todd, Peter M. & Silverman, Boaz, 2014. "Allocation of resources in asymmetric competitions: How do the weak maintain a chance of winning?," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 161-174.
    8. Maria Montero & Alex Possajennikov & Martin Sefton & Theodore Turocy, 2016. "Majoritarian Blotto contests with asymmetric battlefields: an experiment on apex games," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 61(1), pages 55-89, January.
    9. Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2018. "The Optimal Defense Of Networks Of Targets," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 56(4), pages 2195-2211, October.
    10. Scott Macdonell & Nick Mastronardi, 2015. "Waging simple wars: a complete characterization of two-battlefield Blotto equilibria," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 58(1), pages 183-216, January.
    11. Kostyantyn Mazur, 2017. "A Partial Solution to Continuous Blotto," Papers 1706.08479, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2017.

  5. Caroline D. Thomas, "undated". "Career Concerns and Policy Intransigence - A Dynamic Signalling Model," Department of Economics Working Papers 161228, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2016.

    Cited by:

    1. Halac, Marina & Kremer, Ilan, 2018. "Experimenting with Career Concerns," CEPR Discussion Papers 12569, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Sun, Yiman, 2024. "A dynamic model of censorship," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 19(1), January.

  6. Caroline D. Thomas & Martin W. Cripps, "undated". "Strategic Experimentation in Queues," Department of Economics Working Papers 140228, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2016.

    Cited by:

    1. Ignacio Monzón, 2017. "Observational Learning in Large Anonymous Games," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 509, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
    2. Eyster, Erik & Galeotti, Andrea & Kartik, Navin & Rabin, Matthew, 2014. "Congested observational learning," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 519-538.
    3. Eeva Mauring, 2020. "Informational Cycles in Search Markets," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 170-192, November.
    4. Zhang, Min, 2021. "Non-monotone social learning," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 565-579.
    5. Hung Q. Nguyen & Tuan Phung-Duc, 2022. "Strategic customer behavior and optimal policies in a passenger–taxi double-ended queueing system with multiple access points and nonzero matching times," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 102(3), pages 481-508, December.

Articles

  1. Caroline D. Thomas, 2021. "Strategic Experimentation with Congestion," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(1), pages 1-82, February.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Thomas, Caroline, 2020. "Stopping with congestion and private payoffs," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 18-42.

    Cited by:

    1. Nicolas KLEIN & Peter WAGNER, 2018. "Strategic Investment and Learning with Private Information," Cahiers de recherche 13-2018, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ.

  3. Krainin, Colin & Thomas, Caroline & Wiseman, Thomas, 2020. "Rational Quagmires: Attrition, Learning, and War," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 15(3), pages 369-400, July.

    Cited by:

    1. Edoardo Grillo & Antonio Nicolò, 2022. "Learning it the hard way: Conflicts, economic sanctions and military aids," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0284, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".

  4. V Bhaskar & Caroline Thomas, 2019. "Community Enforcement of Trust with Bounded Memory," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 86(3), pages 1010-1032.

    Cited by:

    1. Sergey Kovbasyuk & Giancarlo Spagnolo, 2021. "Memory And Markets," Working Papers w0284, New Economic School (NES).
    2. S. Nageeb Ali & David A. Miller, 2020. "Communication and Cooperation in Markets," Papers 2005.09839, arXiv.org.
    3. Christa N. Gibbs & Benedict Guttman-Kenney & Donghoon Lee & Scott T. Nelson & Wilbert H. van der Klaauw & Jialan Wang, 2024. "Consumer Credit Reporting Data," NBER Working Papers 32791, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Sun, Yiman, 2024. "A dynamic model of censorship," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 19(1), January.
    5. Kaya, Ayça & Roy, Santanu, 2022. "Market screening with limited records," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 106-132.
    6. Daniel Monte & Roberto Pinheiro, 2017. "Costly Information Intermediation as a Natural Monopoly," Working Papers 17-21R, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
    7. Harry Pei, 2022. "Reputation Effects under Short Memories," Papers 2207.02744, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2023.

  5. Cripps, Martin W. & Thomas, Caroline D., 2019. "Strategic experimentation in queues," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 14(2), May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  6. Thomas, Caroline, 2019. "Experimentation with reputation concerns – Dynamic signalling with changing types," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 366-415.

    Cited by:

    1. Chia-Hui Chen & Junichiro Ishida & Wing Suen, 2019. "Reputation Concerns in Risky Experimentation," ISER Discussion Paper 1060r, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, revised Aug 2020.
    2. Chen, Wanyi, 2021. "Dynamic survival bias in optimal stopping problems," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
    3. Hwang, Ilwoo, 2023. "Policy experimentation with repeated elections," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 623-644.

  7. V. Bhaskar & Caroline Thomas, 2019. "The Culture of Overconfidence," American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 95-110, June.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  8. Caroline Thomas, 2018. "N-dimensional Blotto game with heterogeneous battlefield values," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 65(3), pages 509-544, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Kovenock, Dan & Roberson, Brian & Sheremeta, Roman, 2018. "The attack and defense of weakest-link networks," MPRA Paper 89292, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Sebasti'an Morales & Charles Thraves, 2020. "On the Resource Allocation for Political Campaigns," Papers 2012.02856, arXiv.org.
    3. Brian Roberson & Oz Shy, 2021. "Costly force relocation in the Colonel Blotto game," Economic Theory Bulletin, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 9(1), pages 39-52, April.
    4. Shy, Oz, 2021. "Multimarket lobbying with reserves," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 106-112.
    5. Christian Ewerhart & Dan Kovenock, 2019. "A Class of N-Player Colonel Blotto Games with Multidimensional Private Information," Working Papers 19-29, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
    6. Vincent Leon & S. Rasoul Etesami, 2024. "Online Learning in Budget-Constrained Dynamic Colonel Blotto Games," Dynamic Games and Applications, Springer, vol. 14(4), pages 865-887, September.
    7. Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2015. "Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games," Working Papers 15-07, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
    8. Jonathan Lamb & Justin Grana & Nicholas O’Donoughue, 2022. "The Benefits of Fractionation in Competitive Resource Allocation," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 59(2), pages 831-852, February.
    9. Enric Boix-Adser`a & Benjamin L. Edelman & Siddhartha Jayanti, 2020. "The Multiplayer Colonel Blotto Game," Papers 2002.05240, arXiv.org, revised May 2021.
    10. Sebastián Morales & Charles Thraves, 2021. "On the Resource Allocation for Political Campaigns," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 30(11), pages 4140-4159, November.
    11. Dan Kovenock & Brian Roberson, 2018. "The Optimal Defense Of Networks Of Targets," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 56(4), pages 2195-2211, October.
    12. Boix-Adserà, Enric & Edelman, Benjamin L. & Jayanti, Siddhartha, 2021. "The multiplayer Colonel Blotto game," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 15-31.
    13. Louis-Sidois, Charles, 2024. "Buying winners," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 1-11.
    14. Cortes-Corrales, Sebastián & Gorny, Paul M., 2018. "Generalising Conflict Networks," MPRA Paper 90001, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  9. Guéron, Yves & Lamadon, Thibaut & Thomas, Caroline D., 2011. "On the folk theorem with one-dimensional payoffs and different discount factors," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 73(1), pages 287-295, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Carmona, Guilherme & Carvalho, Luís, 2016. "Repeated two-person zero-sum games with unequal discounting and private monitoring," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 131-138.
    2. Daniel Cardona & Antoni Rubí-Barceló, 2016. "Time-Preference Heterogeneity and Multiplicity of Equilibria in Two-Group Bargaining," Games, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-17, May.
    3. Kimmo Berg, 2017. "Extremal Pure Strategies and Monotonicity in Repeated Games," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 49(3), pages 387-404, March.
    4. Marina Agranov & Jeongbin Kim & Leeat Yariv, 2023. "Coordination with Differential Time Preferences: Experimental Evidence," Working Papers 2023-10, Princeton University. Economics Department..
    5. ,, 2015. "Characterizing the limit set of PPE payoffs with unequal discounting," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 10(3), September.
    6. Marina Agranov & Jeongbin Kim & Leeat Yariv, 2023. "Coordination with Differential Time Preferences: Experimental Evidence," CESifo Working Paper Series 10454, CESifo.
    7. Aramendia, Miguel & Wen, Quan, 2020. "Myopic perception in repeated games," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 1-14.
    8. Chen, Bo & Takahashi, Satoru, 2012. "A folk theorem for repeated games with unequal discounting," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 76(2), pages 571-581.
    9. Dasgupta, Ani & Ghosh, Sambuddha, 2022. "Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).

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  1. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (2) 2014-03-15 2017-01-08
  2. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2014-03-15
  3. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (1) 2018-03-26
  4. NEP-PPM: Project, Program and Portfolio Management (1) 2018-03-26

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