John Spraggon

Experimental and Environmental Economics

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224 Stockbridge Hall, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003

Grants

  • Spraggon, John M. (PI). “Reward the Lucky, Punish the Unlucky.” School of Behavioral Sciences Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, $6000. Fall 2013- Spring 2015.
  • 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

  • Clark, Jeremy, and John M. Spraggon.  “The Applicability of Micro-Finance to Higher Risk Business Ventures: An Experimental Study.”  Accepted with the Applied Economics
  • Crago, Christine L., John M. Spraggon, and Elizabeth Hunter, 2020. “Motivating Non-Rate Paying Households with Feedback and Social Nudges: A Cautionary Tale.”  Energy Policy, 145, 11764.
  • Stranlund, John, K., James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and Nikolaos Zirogiannis, 2019.  “Tying Enforcement to Permit Prices in Emission Markets: An Experimental Evaluation.”  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98, 102246.
  • de Oliveira, Angela C. M., Alexander Smith, and John Spraggon. “Reward the Lucky?  An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Agency and Luck on Bonuses.”  Accepted with the Journal of Economic Psychology.
  • DeGeest, Lawrence, John K. Stranlund and John M. Spraggon. “Deterring Poaching of a Common Pool Resource: An Experimental Evaluation.” Accepted with the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
  • de Oliveira, Angela, John M. Spraggon, and Matthew Denny, 2016.  “Instrumenting Beliefs in Threshold Public Goods.”  PLOS One 11 (2) e0147043. >> Online Appendix >>Data
  • Spraggon, John, M., Lucia Andrea Vergara Sobarzo, and John K. Stranlund, 2015. “A note on stochastic public revelation and voluntary contributions to public goods.”  Economics Letters, 126, 144-146.
  • Stranlund, John K., James J. Murphy and John M. Spraggon, 2014.  “Price Controls and Banking in Emission Trading: An experimental evaluation.”  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68(1), 71-86.
  • Suter, Jordan, F., John M. Spraggon and Greg L. Poe, 2013. “Thin and lumpy: an experimental investigation of water quality trading.” Water Resources and Economics 1, 36-60.
  • Spraggon, John M., 2013. “The Impact of Information and Cost Heterogeneity on Firm Behavior under an Ambient Tax/Subsidy Instrument.” Journal of Environmental Management, 122, 137-143. >> Instructions
  • Oxoby, Robert J., and John M. Spraggon, 2013. “A Clear and Present Minority: Heterogeneity in the Source of Endowments and the Provision of Public Goods.” Economic Inquiry, 51(4), 2071-2082.
  • Lopez, Maria Claudia, James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund, 2012.  “Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Individual Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia.” Economic Inquiry, 50(1), 131-142.
  • Stranlund, John K., James J. Murphy and John M. Spraggon, 2011.  “An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets.”  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62, 414-429.
  • McEvoy, David M.; James J. Murphy, John Spraggon, and John K. Stranlund, 2011.  “The Problem of Maintaining Compliance within Stable Coalitions: Experimental Evidence.”  Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Working paper 2008-2. Oxford Economic Papers, 63(3), 475-498.
  • Spraggon, John M., and Robert J. Oxoby, 2010. “Ambient-Based Policy Instruments:  The Role of Recommendations and Presentation.”  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 39/2, 262-274.
  • Spraggon, John M., and Robert J. Oxoby, 2009.  “Game Theory for Playing Games: Sophistication in a Negative-Externality Experiment.”  Economic Inquiry, 47(3), 467-481. >> 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

  • Stranlund, John K., James J. Murphy, and John M. Spraggon, 2013. “Imperfect Enforcement of Emissions Trading and Industry Welfare:  A Laboratory Investigation.”  Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment.  John A. List and Michael K. Price editors, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Lopez, Maria Claudia, James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund, 2013.  “Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation? Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia.”  Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment.John A. List and Michael K. Price editors, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • 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).