participants. The ability of Bill Jones to obtain the volunteer, unpaid participation of airline pilots was nothing short of amazing. Of course, my great appreciation goes to those pilots who gave up some of their valuable time to help out a student. Josh Smith, the GM of the West Valley Flying Club, played

for the Social Science Research Council's Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution. Special thanks to the editors and reviewers for their helpful comments, to my informants for their time and interest and to Stephen Barley, Robert Sutton, Josh Lerner, Carliss Baldwin, George Baker, Victor Seidel

* Helpful comments from the participants of the Kobe Conference on the Theory and Application of Environmental Valuation held in Kobe, Japan and V. Kerry Smith are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank Josh Olinick for research assistance. 1

with someone who had no previous laboratory experience. Additionally, I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Brenda Smith and Dr. Barbara Stoecker. Dr. Smith’s warm welcome to Oklahoma State University, encouraging words, and sage advice were invaluable in my getting to this point and in helping me

to my parents ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the members of my dissertation committee — Joel Slemrod, Matthew Shapiro, Jeffrey Smith, and Amy Dittmar — for their excellent mentorship and timely advice throughout the dissertation process. In addition, several graduate students made

of the Congressional Budget Office. References in publications should be cleared with the author. Papers in this series can be obtained by sending an email to techpapers@cbo.gov. The author would like to thank Amy Harris, Josh O’Harra, John Sabelhaus, Michael Simpson, and Joel Smith of CBO for their support In dynamic

to thank Monica Smith, JoonHo Park, Yasuko Nagai, Olavi Kiirats, Josh

their theatrical experience. I want to thank the show‘s stage manager, William Cate, and all the actors—Katie Harbin, Samantha Cook, Chelsea Kinser, Bethany Stokes, Samuel Floyd, and Josh Holley—all of these students did phenomenal work. A very special ―thank you ‖ to Rachel Townsend and Kelsey Owens for doing

We thank the Island ECN for providing us with the data for this study, and are especially grateful for the help of Cameron Smith, Josh Levine, and Rob Newhouse. We also thank Tim McCormick and the NASD’s Economic Research for providing us with odd-lot data, and Lei Yu for her research assistance

motivation. • Roberto Samarone Araujo for hours of discussing various protocols with Evengelos and me. • Warren D. Smith for providing with a preliminary version of his upcoming book »How Mathematics can Improve Democracy«. • Ute Günther and Christian Burgmann for their proof-reading. Nonetheless, any