• Ph.D. Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2001
• Sc.B. Applied Math-Economics, Brown University, 1996

My research uses the tools of experimental economics, game theory and behavioral economics to understand the decisions underlying natural resource use, and to design methods and institutions for managing them. My most mature research program uses laboratory experiments to design rules for exchanging transferable use rights, with a particular application to transferable allowances in fisheries; a period of trading short-term leases, prior to trading permanent allowances, facilitates price discovery and hampers speculation in the market for the newly created asset. I am beginning a second program to develop theoretically, and test experimentally, incentive compatible mechanisms for valuation of environmental amenities. The mechanisms will be used to validate traditional hypothetical valuation surveys, and to identify prospects for establishing functioning markets for environmental amenities. In addition, I have projects exploring how heterogeneity influences economic and policy conclusions using random parameters and latent class models.

I teach an introductory undergraduate course in resource economics and graduate courses in experimental economics, microeconomic theory and likelihood-based applied econometrics.

• Anderson, C.M. and J.G. Sutinen. 2006. The Effect of Initial Lease Periods on Price Discovery in Laboratory Tradable Fishing Allowance Markets. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 61:164-180.
  
• Anderson, C., and D. Holland. 2006. Auctions for Initial Sale of Annual Catch Entitlement. Land Economics 82(3):333-52.
  
• Anderson, C., C. Das and T. Tyrrell. 2006. Parking Preferences among Tourists in Newport, Rhode Island. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 40(4):334-353.


• Anderson, C.M. and L. Putterman. 2006. Do Non-strategic Sanctions Obey the Law of Demand? The Demand for Punishment in the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. Games and Economic Behavior 54(1):1-24. (Lead article)


• Anderson, C.M. and J. G. Sutinen. 2005. A Laboratory Assessment of Tradable Fishing Allowances. Marine Resource Economics 20(1):1-24. (Lead article)


• King, J. R. and C. M. Anderson. 2004. The Marginal Property Tax Rate Effects of Conservation Easements: A Vermont Case Study. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(4):919-932.


• Anderson, C.M. 2004. How Institutions Affect Outcomes in Laboratory Tradable Fishing Allowance Systems. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33(2):282-297.


• Anderson, C. M., C. R. Plott, K.-I. Shimomura and S. Granat. 2004. Global Instability in Experimental General Equilibrium: The Scarf Example. Journal of Economic Theory 115(2):209-249. (Lead article)