Political Economy

'Regulation and growth,' (joint with Patrick McLaughlin). Coming soon

'An experimental test of the resource curse,' (joint with Kevin McCabe and Peter Twieg). Coming soon

'Intelligence, patience and cooperation: An experimental study,' (joint with Garett Jones and Jaap Weel). Coming soon

'The causal effect of market participation on trust: An experimental investigation using randomized control,' (joint with Dan Houser, John Nye, Maria Paganelli and Xiaofei Pan). ICES Discussion Paper. Under review.

'Patience, cognitive skill and coordination in the repeated stag hunt,' (joint with Garett Jones and Jaap Weel). MPRA Working Paper 27723. Under review.

Al-Ubaydli, O. (2012). 'Natural resources and the tradeoff between authoritarianism and development,'. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(1).

Al-Ubaydli, O. (2011). 'How large looms the ghost of the past? State-dependence vs. heterogeneity in the stag hunt,'. Southern Economic Journal, 78(2).

Behavioral Economics

'On the generalizability of experimental results,' (joint with John List). Coming soon

'Can tailored communications motivate volunteers? A field experiment,' (joint with Min Sok Lee). MPRA working paper 30343. Under review.

'Do you reward and punish in the way others expect you to?,' (joint with Min Sok Lee). Revision requested at Journal of Socio-Economics.

'For love or money: testing non-pecuniary and pecuniary incentive schemes in a field experiment,' (joint with Steffen Andersen, Uri Gneezy and John List). Under review.

Al-Ubaydli, O. and M. S. Lee (2011). 'Can tailored communications motivate environmental volunteers? A field experiment,' American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 101(3).

Al-Ubaydli, O., U. Gneezy, J. List and M. S. Lee (2010). 'Toward and understanding of the relative strengths of positive and negative reciprocity,'. Judgment and Decision Making. 5(7).

Al-Ubaydli, O. and M. S. Lee (2009). 'An experimental study of asymmetric reciprocity,'. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 72 (2).

Markets and trade

'Efficient bargaining,' (joint with Martin Santamaria and Hugo Sonnenschein). Coming soon.

'Trade and personality,' (joint with James Heckman, John List and Mike Price). Coming soon.

'Does Hayek travel well in the field?,' (joint with Peter Boettke). Under review.

'Markets as economizers of information: Field experimental examination of the ‘Hayek Hypothesis’,' (joint with Peter Boettke). Revision requested at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

'The nature of excess: using randomized treatments to investigate price dynamics,' (joint with John List and Mike Price). NBER working paper 16319. Under review.

Economics of Science

Young, N., Ioannidis, J. and O. Al-Ubaydli (2008). 'Why current publication practices may distort science,'. PLoS Medicine. 5(10). Featured in The Economist and appeared on the front cover

Kealey, T. and O. Al-Ubaydli (2001). 'A critique of science and R&D based models of endogenous growth,'. Knowledge, Technology and Policy. 13(4).

Kealey, T. and O. Al-Ubaydli (2001). 'Should governments fund science?,'. Economic Affairs. 20(3).

Al-Ubaydli, O. and T. Kealey (2000). 'Endogenous growth theory: a critique,'. Economic Affairs. 20(3).