Professor Jason Shachat's Outputs (3)

The Hayek hypothesis and long run competitive equilibrium: an experimental investigation (2015)
Journal Article
Shachat, J., & Zhang, Z. (2017). The Hayek hypothesis and long run competitive equilibrium: an experimental investigation. The Economic Journal, 127(599), 199-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12249

We report on an experiment investigating whether the Hayek Hypothesis (Smith, 1982) extends to the long run setting. We consider two environments; one with a production technology having a U-shaped long run average cost curve and a single competitive... Read More about The Hayek hypothesis and long run competitive equilibrium: an experimental investigation.

An experimental study of the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes in urban China (2015)
Journal Article
Nielsen, I., Gu, J., Shachat, J., Smyth, R., & Peng, Y. (2016). An experimental study of the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes in urban China. Urban Studies, 53(14), 2991-3006. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015598730

A large body of literature attests to the growing social divide between urban residents and rural–urban migrants in China’s cities. This study uses a randomised experiment to test the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes between a group of urban... Read More about An experimental study of the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes in urban China.

Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, and Minimax Play (2015)
Journal Article
Geng, S., Peng, Y., Shachat, J., & Zhong, H. (2015). Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, and Minimax Play. Economics Letters, 128, 54-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.01.007

We conduct experiments with adolescent participants on repeated fixed play in three different zero-sum games which have mixed strategy minimax solutions. Further, we collect subject information on cognitive abilities and participation rates in compet... Read More about Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, and Minimax Play.