Dr Edward Cartwright
Profile
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Office: B1.06 Keynes
Telephone: +44 1227 823460
Email: Edward Cartwright
Edward Cartwright is Senior Lecturer in Economics. He was born in Wolverhampton in 1977 and graduated from the University of Durham in 1999. He completed both his MSc and PhD at the University of Warwick. He subsequently spent a year as a post-doctoral student at EUREQua, Universite Paris 1 (Pantheon - Sorbonne) before joining the University of Kent in 2004.
Edward’s main research interests are game theory, behavioral economics and public economics. His curent research interests include the consequences and origins of conformity and prejudice, the emergence of leadership and its role in resolving coordination problems, and large games.
Research
Research interests
Much of Edward’s current research focuses on aspects of leadership, social learning and social influence. Specifically, it looks to model situations where economic agents are making decisions sequentially or repeatedly and can observe what other agents have done in the past. How are/should agents be influenced by what they observe others doing? and how should an agent behave if he expects others to be influenced by what he is doing?
Specific issues that are the subject of ongoing research include:
- Who chooses to lead, and follow, and why?
- Does leadership help to resolve coordination problems?
- The optimal theory of search when agents can learn from the search of others.
- Under what conditions imitation and conformity are consistent with individual rationality.
- How beliefs, and beliefs about beliefs, influence the emergence of conventions and social norms.
Two ESRC Research Grants, ‘Why some people choose to be leaders: the emergence of leadership in groups and organizations’ (joint with Mark van Vugt) and ‘Social Learning and the Theory of Search’, as well as a British Academy Grant, 'Free-riding in public good games' (joint with Mark van Vugt)' have supported this research.
You can hear a podcast interview with Jeremy Pritchard about research on evolution and leadership at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_EHTdZugY [9]
Edward is also a member of the University of Kent’s Centre for Reasoning and The Centre for the Study of Group Processes
Edward's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pca11.htm
Current work
Working Papers
- ‘Public goods, social norms and naïve beliefs’, (2008) University of Kent School of Economics Discussion Paper 0807.
- ‘On the emergence of social norms’, (2007) University of Kent School of Economics Discussion Paper 0704.
- ‘Social Learning, Search and Heterogeneity of Payoffs’ (2007) University of Kent School of Economics Discussion Paper 0705.
- ‘Correlated equilibrium and behavioral conformity’, (2005) with Myrna Wooders, University of Vanderbilt Economics Working Paper no. 05-W26.
Publications
Articles
- 'Imitation and the incentive to contribute early in a sequential public good game' (2009) with Amrish Patel, to appear in Journal of Public Economic Theory.
- 'Social norms: Does it matter whether agents are rational or boundedly rational?' (2009) Journal of Socio-Economics 38: 403-410.
- 'On equilibrium in pure strategies in games with many players' (2009) with M. Wooders, International Journal of Game Theory 38: 137-153.
- 'On purification of equilibrium in Bayesian games and expost Nash equilibrium' (2009) with M. Wooders, International Journal of Game Theory 38: 127-136.
- ‘Conformity and out of equilibrium beliefs’, (2009) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 70: 164-185.
- 'Imitation, Coordination and the Emergence of Nash Equilibrium Play', (2007) International Journal of Game Theory, 36: 119-136.
- 'Contagion and the Emergence of Convention in Small Worlds', International Game Theory Review Volume 9, issue 4, (Dec 2007): 689-704.
- 'Behavioural Conformity in Games with Many Players', (2006) with R. Selten and M. Wooders, Games and Economic Behavior, 57: 347-360
- 'The Stability of Conventions: Random and Lattice Matching Networks Compared', (2004) Economics Letters 85: 47-51.
- 'On the Theory of Equalising Differences; Increasing Abundances of Workers May Increase Their Earnings', (2001) with M. Wooders, Economics Bulletin 4: 1-10.
Contributions to Books
- 'The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies', (2006) with J. Conley and M. Wooders, in The Tiebout Model at 50: Essays in Public Economics in honour of Wallace Oates, W. A. Fischel (Ed).
Teaching
PhD supervision
Current Students
- Mr Amrish Patel
Administrative roles
- Member of the University of Kent’s Evolutionary Social Psychology Research Group
- Member of the University of Kent’s Centre for Reasoning