Publications

Developmental decision-making

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Academic achievement helps coordination on mutually advantageous outcomes”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (14) e2420306122, 2025. Link

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Why do children pass in the centipede game? Cognitive limitations v. risk calculations”, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Dynamic coordination in efficient and fair strategies: a developmental perspective”, Economic Theory, forthcoming. PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Adverse Selection and Contingent Reasoning in Preadolescents and Teenagers”, Games and Economic Behavior, 133, 331-351, 2022. PDF 

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “The development of randomization and deceptive behavior in mixed strategy games”, Quantitative Economics, 13(2), 825-862, 2022. PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Self-serving, altruistic and spiteful lying in the schoolyard”,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 187, 159-175, 2021.PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Steps of reasoning in children and adolescents”,  Journal of Political Economy, 129 (7), 2067-2111, 2021.PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo “Young children use commodities as an indirect medium of exchange”, Games and Economic Behavior, 125, 48-61, 2021. PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “The development of social strategic ignorance and other-regarding behavior from childhood to adulthood”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 85, 101524, 2020.PDF

      

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Studying decision-making in children: challenges and opportunities”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 179, 777-783, 2020. PDF 

     

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “The evolution of choice and learning in the two-person beauty contest game from kindergarten to adulthood”, Games and Economic Behavior, 120, 132-143, 2020. PDF

     

    • Brocas I., J. Carrillo, D. Combs and N. Kodaverdian, “The development of consistent decision-making across economic domains”, Games and Economic Behavior, 116, 217-240, 2019.  PDF

     

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “Iterative dominance in young children: experimental evidence in simple two-person games”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 179, 623-637, 2020. PDF

     

    • Brocas I., J. Carrillo, J. Barash, and N. Kodaverdian, “Heuristic to Bayesian: the Evolution of Reasoning from Childhood to Adulthood”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159, 305-322, 2019. PDF

     

    • Brocas I. and J. Carrillo, “The Determinants of Strategic Thinking in Preschool Children”, PLOS One, 13(5), 2018.  PDF

Non choice data

  • Brocas I., C. Camerer, J. Carrillo and I. Krajbich “The Methods and Value of Measuring Choice Processes in Economics Experiments”, in the Handbook of Experimental Methodology, Volume 1, Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv Eds, 2025 Link to Book

 

  • Zyuzin K., D. Combs, J. Monterosso and I. Brocas “The neural correlates of value representation: from single items to bundles”, Human Brain Mapping, 44(4), 1476-1495, 2023. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and M. Montgomery “Shaming as an incentive mechanism against stealing: behavioral and physiological evidence”, Journal of Public Economics, 194, 104351, 2021. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and A. Sachdeva “The Path to Equilibrium in Sequential and Simultaneous Games: a Mouse tracking Study”, Journal of Economic Theory, 178, 246-274, 2018. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., C. Camerer, J. Carrillo and S. Wang “Imperfect Choice or Imperfect Attention? Understanding Strategic Thinking in Private Information Games”, Review of Economic Studies, 81, 944-970, 2014. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and J. Tarraso “Self-awareness in time perception”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 148, 1-19, 2018. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and J. Tarraso “How long is a minute?”, Games and Economic Behavior, 111, 305-322, 2018. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and R. Kendall “Stress induces contextual blindness in lotteries and coordination games”, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 2017. PDF

Test of theory

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo, A. Giga and F. Zapatero “Risk Aversion in a Dynamic Asset Allocation Experiment”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(5), 2209-2232, 2019. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and F.J. Otamendi “Sequential Auctions with Capacity Constraints: an Experimental Investigation”, Games, 9(1), 15, 2018. PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and M. Castro “Second-price common value auctions with uncertainty, private and public information: experimental evidence”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 67, 28-40, 2017.  PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and M. Castro “The nature of information and its effect on bidding behavior: laboratory evidence in a first-price common value auction”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 109, 26-40, 2015.  PDF

 

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo and T. Palfrey “Information gatekeepers: theory and experimental evidence”, Economic Theory, 51(3), 649-676, 2012. PDF

 

Aging

  • Brocas I., J. Carrillo, D. Combs and N. Kodaverdian “Consistency in Simple vs. Complex Choices over the Life Cycle”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 157, 580-601, 2019. PDF