James C. Cox, Professor and Director (ExCEN)
Noah Langdale Jr. Chair in Economics
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Director, Experimental Economics Center
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: 404-413-0200
E-mail: jccox@gsu.edu
Homepage: http://excen.gsu.edu/jccox/
Specialties:
Experimental Economics
Applied Microeconomic Theory
Professor Cox has conducted research on integration of portfolio choice and consumer demand theories, public expenditure theory, credit rationing, energy policy, economics and political economics of minimum wage legislation, auction markets, job search models, decentralized mechanisms for control of monopoly, the utility hypothesis, the preference reversal phenomenon, procurement contracting, the lottery payoff experimental procedure, topics in social epistemology and legal theory, and group vs. individual behavior in strategic market games and fairness games. His current research includes work on theoretical modeling and laboratory experiments with: trust, reciprocity, and altruism; small- and large-stakes risk aversion; e-commerce with combinatorial demands; voluntary contributions to public goods; common property investments; and centipede games vs. Dutch auctions.
Professor Cox’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and several other research support institutions. Cox has been PI and J. Todd Swarthout Co-PI on NSF grants supporting creation and national dissemination of EconPort, a digital library for microeconomics education.
