1. Political Economy

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The option to wait in collective decisions (with Matthias Messner) (2011)

We analyze a model in which voters learn over time their preferences regarding an irreversible...

 

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Political Rulers, Administrators, and the Efficacy of Law (with Tiberiu Dragu) (2011)

How can the law limit the ruler when the ruler prefers to ignore the law?...

 

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The relative importance of cultural and economic issues for the polarization of the U.S. electorate, 1972--2008 (with Stefan Krasa) (2011)

We develop a simple model in which voters care about both economic and ``cultural'' policy...

 

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Learning and Coordination in the Presidential Primary System (with Helios H. Herrera and George Deltas), Working Paper (2011)

To analyze the performance of the U.S. presidential primary system, we develop a model with...

 

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Miscounts, Duverger's Law and Duverger's Hypothesis (with Matthias Messner) (2011)

We analyze plurality rule and runoff rule voting games when the vote counting technology is...

 

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Social ideology and taxes in a differentiated candidates framework (with Stefan Krasa) (2011)

How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this...

 

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Competition between specialized candidates (with Stefan Krasa), American Political Science Review (2010)

Opposing candidates for a political office often differ in their professional backgrounds and previous political...

 

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Institutional Constraints in Times of Crisis: Counter-Terrorism and Electoral Accountability (with Tiberiu Dragu) (2010)

We develop a game-theoretic model of interactions among a government, a representative citizen, and the...

 

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The Binary Policy Model (with Stefan Krasa), Journal of Economic Theory (2010)

We introduce a tractable multi-issue model of electoral competition in which candidates are exogenously committed...

 

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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 candidates who choose which level of...

 

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Candidate Competition and Voter Learning in Sequential Primary Elections: Theory and Evidence (with George Deltas) (2009)

We develop a model of sequential presidential primaries in which several horizontally and vertically differentiated...

 

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Political Competition Between Differentiated Candidates (with Stefan Krasa) (2008)

We introduce a framework of electoral competition in which voters have general preferences over candidates'...

 

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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....

 

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Informative Positive and Negative Campaigning (with David T. Yi), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2006)

This paper develops a theoretical model of informative campaigning, both positive and negative. We argue...

 

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Primaries and the New Hampshire Effect (with Tilman Klumpp), Journal of Public Economics (2006)

Candidates for U.S. presidential elections are determined through sequential elections in single states, the primaries....

 

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Investment under Uncertainty in Dynamic Conflicts, Review of Economic Studies (2006)

This paper analyzes a model in which two groups repeatedly compete with each other for...

 

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Paying Politicians (with Matthias Messner), Journal of Public Economics (2004)

Consider a situation where a society has to elect an official who provides a public...

 

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Voting on Majority Rules (with Matthias Messner), Review of Economic Studies (2004)

We analyze an overlapping generations model of voting on ``reform projects''. These resemble investments in...

 

2. Insurance Economics

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Endogenous categorization in insurance, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2008)

This paper analyzes the welfare properties of equilibrium when insurers use observable actions to classify...

 

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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...

 

3. Industrial Organization and applied game theory

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Information and Crowding Externalities, Economic Theory (2006)

We analyze a model in which agents have to make a binary choice under incomplete...

 

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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...

 

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Herding and Anti-Herding: A Model of Reputational Differentiation (with Matthias Effinger), European Economic Review (2001)
 

Humor

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An ancient rejection letter (115)

I provide a translation of an ancient letter found in my crawlspace that shows how...