1. Political Economy
A Formal Model of Issue Ownership (with Stefan Krasa) (2009)
We provide a formal model in which the government produces public goods in different policy...
A political-economy model of taxation and government expenditures with differentiated candidates (with Stefan Krasa) (2009)
We develop a model of political competition between two office-motivated political candidates who choose which...
Political Competition Between Differentiated Candidates (with Stefan Krasa) (2008)
We introduce a framework of electoral competition in which voters have general preferences over candidates'...
Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias (with Stefan Krasa and Dan Bernhardt), Journal of Public Economics (2008)
Many political commentators diagnose an increasing polarization of the U.S. electorate into two opposing camps....
Primaries as Coordination Devices (with Helios H. Herrera), Working Paper (2008)
To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the U.S. presidential primary system, we construct a...
2. Insurance Economics
Endogenous categorization in insurance, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2008)
Advantageous Effects of Regulatory Adverse Selection (with Mike Hoy and Asha Sadanand), Economic Journal (2006)
This paper is concerned with the effects of regulations that prohibit the use of information...
The Value of Genetic Information in the Life Insurance Market, Journal of Public Economics (2000)
3. Industrial Organization and applied game theory
Information and Crowding Externalities, Economic Theory (2006)
Cooperation in Stochastic OLG Games (with Matthias Messner), Journal of Economic Theory (2003)
This paper builds on Cremer's (1986) seminal analysis which shows that (almost) complete cooperation can...