Martin Jones

Contact:
m.k.jones@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 385164
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Martin Jones graduated with a BA from Leicester University in 1991. He went to University of East Anglia where he gained his MA and PhD in Economics. From 1995 he has worked as a research officer at Oxford, Newcastle and Sheffield Universities before becoming a Lecturer at Dundee in October 2000.

External Affiliations

Member of Royal Economic Society
Member of Economic Science Association

Research

Martin's research interests are based in the areas of decision theory and experimental economics.He has done work on biases in learning and ambiguity and has also looked at the cultural determinants of behaviour in the Ultimatum Game experiment. He has also done some research into the methodology of experimentation with particular interest in the issue of understanding and the autonomy of experiments from theoretical investigation.

Teaching

Foundations of Economic Analysis
Risk and Information
Business Economic Analysis

Recent publications

Published papers:

Jones M.K. (2011). "External Validity and Libraries of External Phenomena: A Critique of Guala's Methodology of Experimental Economics" Economics and Philosophy, vol. 27 , pp 247-271
Chuah, S.; Hoffmann, R.; Jones, M.; Williams, G.(2009)., "An Economic Anatomy of Culture Attitudes and Behaviour in Inter- and Intra-National Ultimatum Game Experiments", Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol.30(5), pp. 732-744
Jones, M.K. (2008)., "On the Autonomy of Experiments in Economics", Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 15:4 p. 391-407.
M.K.Jones (2008) "Positive Confirmation in Rational and Irrational Learning" Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 37 p. 1029-1046.
M.K.Jones (2007) "A Gricean Analysis of Understanding in Economic Experiments" Journal of Economic Methodology vol. 14:2 p. 167-185.
Chuah, S.; Hoffmann, R.; Jones, M.; Williams, G.(2007)., "Do Cultures Clash? Evidence from Cross-National Ultimatum Game Experiments", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 64 p. 35-48.
P. Dolan & M.Jones (2004) "Explaining Attitudes towards Ambiguity: An Experimental Test of the Comparative Ignorance Hypothesis" Scottish Journal of Political Economy vol.51 p.281- 301.
M.Jones & R.Sugden (2001) "Positive Confirmation Bias in the Acquisition of Information" Theory and Decision vol 50 p.59-99.
A.C.Burton, S.M.Chilton & M.K.Jones (2000)"The WTP/WTA Discrepancy: A Preliminary Qualitative Examination" Environmental Values vol 9 p. 481-491.

Discussion papers:

Jones, M. (2006)., "An Investigation of the Effects of Analogy on Matching Games", University of Dundee Discussion Paper in Economics no. 190.
M.Jones & P.Seaman (2003) "Sampling Bias in Economics Experiments: An Analysis of the Effects of Attrition among Subjects who Sign Up for Experiments" University of Dundee Discussion Paper in Economics no. 153
M.Jones (2003) "Is Positive Confirmation relevant for game theory?: An Experimental Test" University of Dundee Discussion Paper in Economics no. 158