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Erik O. Kimbrough

Professor of Economics, Chapman University
Verified email at chapman.edu
Cited by 1703

Norms make preferences social

EO Kimbrough, A Vostroknutov - … of the European Economic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We explore the idea that prosocial behavior in experimental games is driven by social norms
imported into the laboratory. Under this view, differences in behavior across subjects is …

War and conflict in economics: Theories, applications, and recent trends

EO Kimbrough, K Laughren, R Sheremeta - … of Economic Behavior & …, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but
their implications are qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a variety …

Historical property rights, sociality, and the emergence of impersonal exchange in long-distance trade

EO Kimbrough, VL Smith, BJ Wilson - American Economic Review, 2008 - aeaweb.org
This laboratory experiment explores the extent to which impersonal exchange emerges
from personal exchange with opportunities for long-distance trade. We design a three-…

When parity promotes peace: Resolving conflict between asymmetric agents

EO Kimbrough, RM Sheremeta, TW Shields - … of Economic Behavior & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Due to the high costs of conflict both in theory and practice, we examine and experimentally
test the conditions under which conflict between asymmetric agents can be resolved. We …

Kinship, fractionalization and corruption

M Akbari, D Bahrami-Rad, EO Kimbrough - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2019 - Elsevier
We examine the roots of variation in corruption across societies, and we argue that marriage
practices and family structure are an important, overlooked determinant of corruption. By …

A portable method of eliciting respect for social norms

EO Kimbrough, A Vostroknutov - Economics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent models of prosociality suggest that cooperation in laboratory games may be better
understood as resulting from concern for social norms than from prosocial preferences over …

How norms shape the nature of belief systems in mass publics

E Groenendyk, EO Kimbrough… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
How should ideology be understood, and should we be concerned if Americans lack it?
Combining widely used survey questions with an incentivized coordination game, we separately …

Exchange, theft, and the social formation of property

EO Kimbrough, VL Smith, BJ Wilson - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2010 - Elsevier
We design a laboratory experiment to explore whether and how property endogenously
arises in a specialization and exchange environment where “theft” is costless. Additional …

Side-payments and the costs of conflict

EO Kimbrough, RM Sheremeta - International Journal of Industrial …, 2013 - Elsevier
Conflict and competition often impose costs on both winners and losers, and conflicting
parties may prefer to resolve a dispute before it occurs. The equilibrium of a conflict game with …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the distribution of spitefulness

EO Kimbrough, JP Reiss - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Spiteful, antisocial behavior may undermine the moral and institutional fabric of society,
producing disorder, fear, and mistrust. Previous research demonstrates the willingness of …