New Working Papers
Revealed Political Power (with Jinhui H. Bai) (2010)
This paper adopts a ``revealed preference" approach to the question of what can be inferred...
Communication and Learning (with Luca Anderlini and Dino Gerardi) (2010)
We study the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge in an infinite-horizon model of communication. Each in...
Markov Equilibrium in Models of Dynamic Endogenous Political Institutions, Revised (2008)
This paper examines existence of Markov equilibria in a class of infinite horizon games in...
Recent Publications
Markov Perfect Equilibria in Repeated Asynchronous Choice Games (with Hans Haller), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2010)
This paper examines the issue of multiplicity of Markov Perfect equilibria in alternating move repeated...
On the Faustian Dynamics of Policy and Political Power (with Jinhui H. Bai), Review of Economic Studies (2010)
This paper examines the Faustian dynamics of policy and power. We posit a general class...
Social Memory and Evidence from the Past (with Luca Anderlini and Dino Gerardi), Review of Economic Dynamics (2010)
This paper examines an equilibrium model of social memory — a society’s vicarious beliefs about...
The Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions, Games and Economic Behavior (2010)
When are political institutions stable? When do they tend toward reform? This paper examines a...
A `Super Folk Theorem' in Dynastic Repeated Games (with Luca Anderlini and Dino Gerardi), Economic Theory (2008)
We analyze dynastic repeated games. These are repeated games in which the stage game is...
On the Size and Structure of Group Cooperation (with Matthew Haag), Journal of Economic Theory (2007)
When time preferences are heterogeneous and bounded away from one, how “much” cooperation can be...
Dynamic Enfranchisement (with William Jack), Journal of Public Economics (2006)
Why would a political elite voluntarily dilute its political power by extending the voting franchise?...
Social Norms, Local Interaction, and Neighborhood Planning (with Matthew Haag), International Economic Review (2006)
This article examines optimal social linkage when each individual's repeated interaction with each of his...
Credible Communication in Dynastic Government , Journal of Public Economics (2006)
This paper studies information disclosure in a model of dynastic government. When information about past...
Social Conflict and Gradual Political Succession: An Illustrative Model," (with William Jack), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2006)
This paper studies the evolution of political institutions in the face of conflict. We examine...