Articles
Counterfactual Reasoning and Common Knowledge of Rationality in Normal Form Games, Topics in Theoretical Economics (2009)
When evaluating the rationality of a player in a game one has to examine counterfactuals...
A Solution to Proebsting's Paradox, or "How to Skim a Bettor if You Must", Economics (2009)
Proebsting's Paradox is an argument that appears to show that the betting rule known as...
The Credibility Problem in Politics: Theory and Evidence from State-Level Abortion Legislation (with Francisco Rodriguez), Economics (2009)
This paper proposes a simple mechanism for evaluating the relevance of credibility problems in politics....
Expected Utility Inequalities: Theory and Applications, Economic Theory (2008)
Suppose we know the utility function of a risk averse decision maker who values a...
Epistemic Conditions for Rationalizability, Games and Economic Behavior (2008)
In this paper I present conditions, not involving common knowledge of rationality, that lead to...
Priors That Do Not Rule Out Strategic Uncertainty Cannot Lead to Nash Equilibrium, Economics (2006)
Consider a two player game that is to be played once. The players receive information...
Central Bank Independence in a (Very) Non-Neoclassical World, Economics (2005)
What if it could be possible to convince a completely non-neoclassical economist of the importance...
On Some Subtle Implications of the Choice of Numeraire for Monetary Policy in Developing Countries, Economics (2005)
Numeraire choice is often deemed a problem of purely analytical convenience. In this paper I...
Testable Implications of Subjective Expected Utility Theory, Games and Economic Behavior (2005)
I show that the predictive content of the hypothesis of subjective expected utility maximization critically...
Public Economies and the Endogenous Choice of Institutions, Economics (2005)
In this paper I provide a framework in which to formalize the seminal work of...
The Interplay Between Analytics and Computation in the Study of Congestion Externalities: The Case of the El Farol Problem, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2004)
In this paper I study the El Farol problem, a deterministic, boundedly rational, multi-agent model...
Authority, Social Theories of, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001)
Authority is a relation that exists between individuals, in which one does as indicated by...
A Simple Test of the Law of Demand for the United States (with Timothy J. Vogelsang), Econometrica (2000)
Formal Models of Authority: Introduction and Political Economy Applications, Rationality and Society (1999)
Talcot Parsons suggested in 1963 that there are basically three kinds of authority: utilitarian authority,...