Carnegie Mellon University

James Best

James A. Best

Assistant Professor of Economics

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  • TEP - Tepper Building - Room 5225
  • 412-268-2215
Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

  • University of Edinburgh - Ph D (Economics) - 2014
  • University of Edinburgh - M Sc (Economics) - 2009
  • University of York - BA Hons (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) - 2008

Research

Information,  communication and the economy.

Publications

Working Papers

Persuasion for the Long-Run
(author(s): James Best, Daniel Quigley)
2017

Capital Management and Inequality
(author(s): James Best, Keshav Dogra)
2017

Anti-Social Learning: The Effect of Social Learning on Cooperation
(author(s): James Best)
2016

Self-Fulfilling Price Cycles
(author(s): James Best, John Hardman Moore)
2014

Identifying the Determinants of Intergenerational Mobility
(author(s): James Best)
2014

Awards and Honors

  • John Fell Fund - Grant for experimental work on “Social Learning and Norms of Cooperation" (2017)
  • Career Development Fellowship (2014)
  • Edinburgh School of Economics - Research and Teaching Scholarship (2012)
  • Economic Social Research Council - PhD Scholarship (2009)