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Present	Associate Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Instrumenting Beliefs in Threshold Public Goods

PLOS ONE (2016)

Angela C. M. de Oliveira, John M. Spraggon and Matthew J Denny

Understanding the causal impact of beliefs on contributions in Threshold Public Goods (TPGs) is particularly important since the social optimum ...

Unpublished Paper

Thin and lumpy: an experimental investigation of water quality trading

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)

Jordan F. Suter, John M. Spraggon and Gregory L. Poe

Water quality trading schemes in the United States can predominantly be character- ized by low trading volumes. In this paper ...

Unpublished Paper

An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2011)

John K. Stranlund, James J. Murphy and John M. Spraggon

Two important design elements for emission trading programs are whether and to what extent firms are able to bank emissions ...

Unpublished Paper

Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance ...

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2010)

Maria Claudia Lopez, James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund

This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast ...

Unpublished Paper

The Problem of Maintaining Compliance within Stable Coalitions: Experimental Evidence

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2008)

David M. McEvoy∗, James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund

This study examines the performance of stable cooperative coalitions that form to provide a public good when coalition members have ...

Unpublished Paper

Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation ...

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2008)

Maria Claudia Lopez, James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund

In this paper we describe a field experiment conducted among mollusk harvesters in a community on the Pacific Coast of ...

Unpublished Paper

Imperfect Enforcement of Emissions Trading and Industry Welfare: A Laboratory ...

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2008)

John K. Stranlund, James J. Murphy and John M. Spraggon

This paper uses laboratory experiments to investigate the performance of emission permit markets when compliance is imperfectly enforced. In particular ...

Unpublished Paper

Exogenous Targeting Instruments under Differing Information Conditions

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2007)

John M. Spraggon

This paper tests the ability of an exogenous targeting instrument to induce compliance when the principal cannot observe the actions ...

Unpublished Paper

Yours, Mine, and Ours: The Effect of Ersatz Property Rights ...

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2004)

Robert J. Oxoby and John M. Spraggon

We report laboratory data on earned wealth effects in a series of anonymous dictator bargaining games. In addition to a ...

Unpublished Paper

Exogenous Targeting Instruments with Heterogeneous Agents

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2003)

John M. Spraggon

This paper investigates the ability of ambient pollution instruments to induce a group of heterogeneous agents to choose a target ...

Unpublished Paper

Individual Decision Making in Exogenous Targeting Instrument Experiments

Economics Department Working Paper Series (2002)

John M. Spraggon

The experimental treatments analysed in this paper are simple in that there is a unique Nash equilibrium resulting in each ...