My main research areas are political economy, experimental economics and the economics of science

Publications/forthcoming papers

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

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

Young, N., Ioannidis, J. and O. Al-Ubaydli (2008). 'Why current publication practices may distort science,' PLoS Medicine. 5 (10). Featured in The Economist magazine and appeared on the 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 (2000). 'Should governments fund science?,' Economic Affairs. 20 (3).

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

Working papers

'Natural resources and the tradeoff between authoritarianism and development,' Revise and resubmit at European Journal of Political Economy.

'Toward and understanding of the relative strengths of positive and negative reciprocity,' (joint with Uri Gneezy, Min Sok Lee and John List). Revise and resubmit at Judgment and Decision Making.

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

'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.

'Do you reward and punish in the way others expect you to?,' (joint with Min Sok Lee). Under review.

'How large looms the ghost of the past? State-dependence vs. heterogeneity in the stag hunt,' Under review.

Work in progress

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

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

'Can tailored communications aid volunteer retention?' (joint with Min Sok Lee).

'Creativity and incentives,' (joint with Robert Eisenberg and Alex Tabarrok).

'Markets and trust,' (joint with Dan Houser, John Nye, Maria Paganelli and Xiaofei Pan).

'IQ and economic parameters,' (joint with Garett Jones and Jaap Weel).

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