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James C. Cox is an American professor of economics at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta, Georgia.

Biography
Cox was born in xxxx. Married to. Children? He received his bachelor's degree in Economics from University of California at Davis in 1965. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1971. Cox's first teaching post was at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His longest tenure was at University of Arizona where he served as Arizona Public Service Professor of Economics and director of the Economic Science Laboratory. Beginning in 2006, Cox has served as Noah Langdale Jr Chair in Economics, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Experimental Economics Center at Georgia State University.

Academic work
Cox has conducted research on integration of portfolio choice and consumer demand theories, public expenditure theory, credit rationing, energy policy, economics and political economics of minimum wage legislation, auction markets, job search models, decentralized mechanisms for control of monopoly, the utility hypothesis, the preference reversal phenomenon, procurement contracting, topics in social epistemology and legal theory, group vs. individual behavior in strategic market games and fairness games, and e-commerce with combinatorial demands. His current research includes behavioral experiments and theoretical modeling of: trust, reciprocity, and altruism; trust and trustworthiness of immigrants and native-born Americans; calibration paradoxes for small- and large-stakes risk aversion; incentive compatibility of payoff mechanisms for choice under risk; public goods and common pool resources; and isomorphic centipede games and Dutch auctions.

Collaborative research with surgeons is in progress on improving hospital discharge decision-making and analysis of decision-making for human organ rejections or acceptances for transplantation. Professor Cox’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other research support institutions.