Tim Cason
Professor of Economics
 
Contact Information
Office:RAWLS 4019
Economics
Krannert School of Management
West Lafayette IN 47907
 
Phone:765-494-1737
 
Email:cason@purdue.edu
 
Homepage:http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/cason/home.asp
 
Profile:
Professor Cason’s teaching interests are in the areas of industrial organization, experimental economics, and environmental economics. His current research areas include experimental markets, environmental regulation, and antitrust. His major publications include “Durable Goods, Coasian Dynamics and Uncertainty: Theory and Experiments” (with Tridib Sharma), Journal of Political Economy, 109, pp. 1311-1354 (2001); “A Laboratory Study of Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game” (with Vai-Lam Mui), The Economic Journal, 107, pp. 1465-1484 (1997); “Price Formation in Single Call Markets” (with Dan Friedman), Econometrica, 65, pp. 311-345 (1997); and “An Experimental Investigation of the Seller Incentives in EPA’s Emission Trading Auction,” American Economic Review, 85, pp. 905-922 (1995). He is the editor of the journal Experimental Economics, a member of the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and an associate editor of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1998, he was an associate professor (1997-98) and assistant professor (1991-97) at the University of Southern California. He has done public utility, regulatory and antitrust consulting.
 
Expertise:
Industrial organization, Experimental economics, Environmental economics
 
Degrees:
B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Indiana University, 1986
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, 1991
 
Research Keywords:
SEPAE, Economics