John Spraggon, Associate Professor
Grants | Papers Published | Chapters in Books | Working Papers | Curriculum Vitae
Grants
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency—Science to Achieve Results. “Experimental Testbeds for New Applications of Environmental Trading Programs.” 9/1/2007 to 8/31/2010, with John Stranlund, James Murphy, John Spraggon, Timothy Cason, Vernon Smith, Stephen Rassenti, David Porter. $987,124.74.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant 410-2002-0632, “Enforcement in markets for tradable emission permits”, 2002-2005.
Papers Published
"Game Theory for Playing Games: Participant Sophistication in a Negative Externality Experiment." Economic Inquiry (Forthcoming). With R. J. Oxoby. >> Instructions
“Whither Found Money Effects? An Experimental Investigation of Endowment Source Heterogeneity in Two-Person Public Good Games.” Economics Letters, 104(2), 2009, 102-105, with R. J. Oxoby.
"Mine and Yours: Property Rights in Dictator Games." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65, (2008), 703-713. With R. J. Oxoby.
“Individual Decision Making in Exogenous Targeting Instrument Experiments”, Experimental Economics , 7, (2004), 249-269.
“Testing Ambient Pollution Instruments with Heterogeneous Agents”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , 48, (2004), 837-856.
"Exogenous Targeting Instruments as a Solution to Group Moral Hazards." Journal of Public Economics 84(3), (2002), 427-456.
"Can Double Auctions Control Monopoly and Monopsony Power in Emissions Trading Markets?" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 44, (2002), 70-92. with Andrew Muller, Stuart Mestelman and Rob Godby.
Chapters in Books
Oxoby, Robert J. and John Spraggon. "The Effects of Recommended Play on Compliance with Ambient Pollution Targeting Instruments." Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods. Todd L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll and Jason F. Shogren, (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2008 (Refereed).
Working Papers
Grégoire, Philippe, John Spraggon and Darren Weng. "Incorporating Surprise in Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation." Lakehead University, manuscript.
Oxoby, Robert J. and John Spraggon. "A Clear and Present Minority: Heterogeneity in the source of endowments and the provision of public goods." University of Calgary, manuscript.
Oxoby, Robert J. and John Spraggon. "Recommendations and Presentations: Reducing Decision Error in a Negative Externality Experiment." University of Calgary manuscript.
Spraggon, John. "Exogenous Targeting Instruments under Differing Information Conditions."
McEvoy, David M.; James J. Murphy, John Spraggon, and John K. Stranlund. "The Problem of Maintaining Compliance within Stable Coalitions: Theory and Experimental Evidence."
Stranlund, John K., James J. Murphy, and John Spraggon. "A Laboratory Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Trading."
