1. Political Economy
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...
The Binary Policy Model (with Stefan Krasa) (2007)
The option to wait in collective decisions (with Matthias Messner) (2007)
We analyze a model in which voters learn over time their preferences regarding an irreversible...
Informative Positive and Negative Campaigning (with David T. Yi), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2006)
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....
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...
Paying Politicians (with Matthias Messner), Journal of Public Economics (2004)
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
Endogenous categorization in insurance (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...