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Over the years my research interests have shifted from antitrust economics to public choice and political economy, and more recently from public choice to experimental economics and conflict economics. In the area of antitrust I studied issues pertaining industry structure and conduct, government control, and economic efficiency. Questions about antitrust policy led to a broader interest in political economy. In public choice my research focused on voter participation, campaign spending, and the line-item veto. Through the public choice literature I was introduced to the comparatively new fields of experimental economics and conflict economics. My experimental work has dealt with voting, public-goods provision, ultimatum bargaining, expected utility theory, and conflict. In many cases the experiments have been collaborative efforts with economics majors at Holy Cross. In conflict economics I have worked with my colleague Charles H. Anderton to develop and test models of appropriation and to test postulated links between trade and peace.
Most of my research has been connected on some level by two related questions. First, how is human nature to be modeled so as to best understand human action and interaction? In particular, how far do the assumptions of pecuniary self-interest and rationality go in explaining human behavior? Second, what are the implications for voluntary cooperation and social order?
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C.H. Anderton and J.R. Carter, "Vulnerable Trade: The Dark Side of an Edgeworth Box," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
C.H. Anderton and J.R. Carter, "A Survey of Peace Economics," in Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, eds., Handbook of Defense Economics, Volume 2, Chapter 35, pp. 1211-1258.
J.R. Carter, "An Empirical Note on Economic Freedom and Income Inequality," Public Choice, 130 (Nos. 1-2, 2006), 163-177.
C.H. Anderton and J.R. Carter, "Applying Intermediate Microeconomics to Terrorism," Journal
of Economic Education (forthcoming).
C.H. Anderton
and J.R. Carter, "On Rational Choice Theory and the Study of Terrorism,"
Defence and Peace Economics, 16 (No. 4, August 2005), 275-282.
C.H. Anderton
and J.R. Carter, Chapter 15, "Does War Disrupt Trade?,"
in Gerald Schneider, Katherine Barbieri,
and NilsPetterGleditisch,
eds., Globalization and Armed Conflict.
C.H. Anderton and J.R. Carter, "On the Disruption of Trade by War: A Reply to Barbieri & Levy," Journal of Peace Research, 38 (No. 5, 2001), 645-648.
C.H. Anderton and J.R. Carter, "The Impact of War on Trade: An Interrupted Time-Series Study," Journal of Peace Research, 38 (No. 4, 2001), 445-457.
J.R. Carter and C.H. Anderton , "An Experimental Test of a Predator-Prey Model of Appropriation," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45 (May 2001), 83-97..
C.H. Anderton, R.A.Anderton, and J.R. Carter, "Economic Activity in the Shadow of Conflict," Economic Inquiry, 37 (January 1999), 166-179.
J.R. Carter and
M.S. Burke, J.R. Carter, R.D. Gominiak, and D.F. Ohl, "An Experimental Note on the Allais Paradox and Monetary Incentives," Empirical Economics, 21 (Number 4, 1996), 617-632.
J.R. Carter and S.D. Guerette, "An Experimental Study of Expressive Voting," Public Choice, 73 (April 1992), 251-260.
J.R. Carter and M.D. Irons, "Are Economists Different, and If So, Why?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (Spring 1991), 171-177.
J.R. Carter and D. Schap, "Line-Item Veto: Where Is Thy Sting?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4 (Spring 1990), 103-118.
J.R. Carter and D. Schap, ""Executive Veto, Legislative Override, and Structure-Induced Equilibrium," Public Choice, 52 (Number 3, 1987), 227-244, reprinted in C. Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory (Edward Elgar, 1993).
J.R. Carter, "Early Projections and Voter Turnout in the 1980 Presidential Election," Public Choice, 43 (Number 2, 1984), 195-202.
J.R. Carter, "Concentration Change and the Structure-Performance Debate: An Interpretive Essay," Managerial Decision Economics, 5 (Number 4, 1984), 204-212.
J.R. Carter, "Antitrust, Competition,
and the Demise of the Concentration Doctrine,"
J.R. Carter, "Actual Potential Entry Under Section 7 of the Clayton Act," Virginia Law Review, 66 (December 1980), 1485-1510.
J.R. Carter, "From Peckham to White: Economic Welfare and the Rule of Reason," Antitrust Bulletin, 25 (Summer 1980), 275-295.
J.R. Carter, "Collusion, Efficiency, and Antitrust," Journal of Law and Economics, 21 (October 1978), 435-444.
J.R. Carter, "In Search of Synergy: A Structure-Performance Test," Review of Economics and Statistics, 59 (August 1977), 279-289.
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J.R. Carter and P.J. Flanagan, "Elicitation of Willingness-to-Accept versus Willingness-to-Pay with the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism," College of the Holy Cross, June 1995.
J.R. Carter, B.J. Drainville, and R.P. Poulin, "A Test for Rational Altruism in a Public-Goods Experiment," College of the Holy Cross, April 1992.
J.R. Carter and M.D. Irons, "Are Economists Different, and If So, Why? (Longer Version)," College of the Holy Cross, December 1990.
J.R. Carter and R.A. Racine, Jr., "Relative Campaign Spending and U.S. House Elections, 19821988," College of the Holy Cross, August 1990.
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James Andreoni's
Microeconomics Laboratory (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~andreoni/microlab/home.htm)
at the
- Economic Science Association (http://www.economicscience.org)
- Charles Holt's Experimental Economics Page (http://www.people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/) at the University of Virginia
- Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science (http://eeps.caltech.edu/) at the California Institute of Technology
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Laboratory Methods for Economic Management
and Auctions (http://lema.smeal.psu.edu/lema/Default.htm)
at
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Micro-Economics and Experimental Economic
Research (http://www.iew.unizh.ch/institute/chairs/fehr/index.en.html)
at the
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Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics
Page (http://www.economics.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html)
at
- Social Science Experimental Laboratory (http://ssel.caltech.edu/) at the California Institute of Technology
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