...the scientist in us should always remain just a little sceptical
even of those propositions that appear to receive very convincing, replicable, evidential support.
-Vernon L. Smith (Economic Inquiry 1982)

My Scholarship


Publications

Ancev, T., R. Baltaduonis, E. Immer-Bernold. Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions by an Intertemporal Policy Mix: An Experimental Investigation (download!). The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 65.3 (July 2021): 512-538.

Aycinena, D., R. Baltaduonis, L. Rentschler. Valuation Structure in Incomplete Information Contests: Experimental Evidence (download!). Public Choice 179.3-4 (June 2019): 195-208.

Baltaduonis, R., Bonar, S., Carnes, J. Mastrangelo, E.. Risk and Abnormal Returns in Markets for Congestion Revenue Rights (download!). The Journal of Energy Markets 10.3 (September 2017): 35-57.

Baltaduonis, R., L. Rentschler. Common-Value Procurement Auctions with Renegotiation (download!). Theoretical Economics Letters 4.8 (October 2014): 619-622.

Aycinena, D., R. Baltaduonis, L. Rentschler Risk Preferences and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones for Ladinos (download!). PLoS ONE 9.8 (2014): 1-10.

Baltaduonis, R. An Experimental Study of Complex-Offer Auctions from Wholesale Energy Markets (download!). Applied Economics and Finance 1.1 (May 2014): 96-115.

Aycinena, D., R. Baltaduonis, L. Rentschler. Valuation Structure in First-Price and Least-Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation (download!). Experimental Economics 17.1 (2014): 100-128.

Baltaduonis, R. Comments on Vernon Briggs's The State of U.S. Immigration Policy: The Quandary of Economic Methodology and the Relevance of Economic research to Know (download!). The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 5.1 (2009): 195-198.

Baltaduonis, R. Efficiency in Deregulated Electricity Markets: Offer Cost Minimization vs. Payment Cost Minimization Auction (download!). in J. Roufagalas (Ed.), Mechanisms & Policies in Economics. Athens, Greece: ATINER (2007): 173-188.

Working Papers

“Behavioral Interventions and Market Efficiency: The Case of a Volatile Retail Electricity Market” (with Jūratė Jaraitė & Andrius Kažukauskas)

“Relative feedback response in competitive environments” (with Diego Aycinena, Haylee Downey, Kristian Fors & Lucas Rentschler)

“A Real-Time Limit Order Book as a Market Mechanism for Transactive Energy Systems” (with Akshay Sreekumar, Adhithyan Sakthivelu, Lynne Kiesling, Seth Hoedl & David P. Chassin)

“The Role of Offer Disclosure in Repeated Bargaining Games: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments with Application to Healthcare Markets” (with Brendan Cushing-Daniels & Tsvetomir Petkov)

“Responding to Incentives or Playing to Type: Gender Norms, Contract Selection and Performance” (with Brendan Cushing-Daniels & Marta Maras)

“Production Tax Credits vs. Feed-In Tariffs: Effects on Investments” ” (with Brendan Cushing-Daniels & Cady Gentile)

“Bitcoin Mining in China: Past, Present & Future” (with Tyler Mann)

“Effects of Feedback on Residential Demand for Electricity in Demand-Side Management Programs” (with Julie Weisz)

“Flicking the Switch: Retail Demand-Side Response under Alternative Electricity Pricing Contracts” (with Tihomir Ancev, Tim Capon & Taylor Smart)

“Determinants of Returns in Markets for Congestion Revenue Rights” (with Samuel Bonar & Jeremy Larrieu)

“An Experimental Study of Citizens United Effects on Campaign Finance and Election Markets” (with Shannon Brobst)

“The Effect of Prediction Markets on Information Cascades” (with Drew Shives)

“Strategic Behavior in Smart Markets with Avoidable Fixed Costs: An Experimental Study”

Ph.D. Dissertation

I defended my Ph.D. dissertation "Essays on Wholesale Auctions in Deregulated Electricity Markets" at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday, April 11th of 2007.

My dissertation committee: Bart Wilson (GMU), Vicki Knoblauch (chair; UConn), Dennis Heffley (UConn), Richard Langlois (UConn).

If you are interested in my research, please send me an email to rbaltadu@gettysburg.edu.