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Robert Battalio

Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
Verified email at nd.edu
Cited by 3004

Tacit coordination games, strategic uncertainty, and coordination failure

JB Van Huyck, RC Battalio, RO Beil - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
… When multiple equilibrium points can be Pareto ranked, it is possible to use concepts of
efficiency to select a subset of selfenforcing equilibrium points: examples include R. Duncan …

Strategic uncertainty, equilibrium selection, and coordination failure in average opinion games

JB Van Huyck, RC Battalio… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1991 - academic.oup.com
Deductive equilibrium analysis often fails to provide a unique equilibrium solution in many
situations of strategic interdependence. Consequently, a theory of equilibrium selection would …

Maximization theory in behavioral psychology

H Rachlin, R Battalio, J Kagel, L Green - Behavioral and Brain …, 1981 - cambridge.org
… A more coherent picture emerges when a study with relatively small numbers of nonhuman
subjects, undertaken by Green, Kagel & Battalio (in press), is considered along with the …

Earnings expectations, investor trade size, and anomalous returns around earnings announcements

RH Battalio, RR Mendenhall - Journal of Financial economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We provide evidence that identifiable subsets of investors use significantly different information
sets. Investors initiating large trades respond to analysts’ earnings forecast errors, while …

Testing between alternative models of choice under uncertainty: Some initial results

RC Battalio, JH Kagel, K Jiranyakul - Journal of risk and uncertainty, 1990 - Springer
… Assuming that the gains function u() is strictly concave and continuous with u(0) r 0, then
it is well known that u(r)/t decreases with t for all t > 0. Thus u(6)/6 > u(20)/20 or u(6)/u(20) > .3. …

[BOOK][B] Economic choice theory: An experimental analysis of animal behavior

JH Kagel, RC Battalio, L Green - 1995 - books.google.com
This book details the results of the authors' research using laboratory animals to investigate
individual choice theory in economics--consumer-demand and labor-supply behavior and …

Economic demand theory and psychological studies of choice

H Rachlin, L Green, JH Kagel, RC Battalio - Psychology of learning and …, 1976 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter introduces a framework borrowed from economics within
which choices between different commodities may be studied in a consistent manner. This …

Optimization incentives and coordination failure in laboratory stag hunt games

R Battalio, L Samuelson, J Van Huyck - Econometrica, 2001 - JSTOR
… Our analysis of games 2R, R, and 0.6R is motivated by the … in game R and six tenths as large
in game 0.6R as it is in game R. … premia of games 2R, R, and 0.6R to induce systematically …

Options and the bubble

R Battalio, P Schultz - The Journal of Finance, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… is the put's bid price, EEP is the early exercise premium, r L is the T-bill lending rate, T is the
… where C Bid is the call's bid price, P Ask is the put's ask price, and r B is the T-bill borrowing …

Regulatory uncertainty and market liquidity: The 2008 short sale ban's impact on equity option markets

R Battalio, P Schultz - The Journal of Finance, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We examine how the September 2008 short sale restrictions and the accompanying confusion
and regulatory uncertainty impacted equity option markets. We find that the short sale ban …