Working Papers
Electoral Systems, Political Corruption, and Voter Information, coming soon!
When is Shuttle Diplomacy Worth the Commute? Information Sharing through Mediation (with Kris Ramsay)
Uncertainty and Incentives in Crisis Bargaining: Game-Free Analysis of International Conflict (with Kris Ramsay), (Supplemental Appendix)
Optimism and Speculation in Bayesian Games with Mutual Acts (with Kris Ramsay)
Dissent Within the Ranks: Consistency of Choice in Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons (with Kevin Clarke)
Duverger's Law Without Strategic Voting
Pre-play Communication in Games of Two-Sided Incomplete Information (with Jaehoon Kim and Larry Rothenberg)
Publications
Mechanism Design Goes to War: Peaceful Outcomes with Interdependent and Correlated Types (with Kris Ramsay), published in Review of Economic Design, 13 (3), September, 2009, pp. 233-250
Risky but Rational: War as an Institutionally-Induced Gamble (with Hein Goemans), published in Journal of Politics, 71 (1), January, 2009, pp. 35-54
Choosing From a Large Tournament, published in Social Choice and Welfare, 31 (2), August, 2008, pp. 301-309
Rent-Seeking Contests with Incomplete Information, published in Public Choice, 135(3-4), June 2008, pp. 225-236
Mutual Optimism and War (with Kris Ramsay), published in American Journal of Political Science, 51 (4), October 2007, pp. 738-754
The Swing Voter's Curse with Adversarial Preferences (with Jaehoon Kim), published in Journal of Economic Theory, 135 (1), July 2007, pp. 236-252
The Common Priors Assumption: A Comment on Bargaining and the Nature of War (with Kris Ramsay), published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50 (4), August 2006, pp. 607-613
Repeated Downsian Electoral Competition (with John Duggan), published in International Journal of Game Theory, 35 (1), December 2006, pp. 39-69.
An Application of Asymptotic Density to Characterizing Voting Rules, published in Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, 31, 2005, pp. 29-37.
Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates (with John Duggan), published in Games and Economic Behavior, 51 (2), May 2005, pp. 490--522.
Group Support and Top-Heavy Rules, published in Economics Letters, 84 (2), August 2004, pp. 255-259.
May's Theorem with an Infinite Population, published in Social Choice and Welfare, 23 (2), October 2004, pp. 275-294.
A Note on the Condorcet Jury Theorem with Supermajority Rules, published in Social Choice and Welfare, 20 (1), February 2003, pp. 27-32.
The Swing Voter's Curse: Comment (with Jaehoon Kim), published in American Economic Review, 92 (4), September 2002, pp. 1264-1268.
Stability and Coordination in Duverger's Law: A Formal Model of Pre-Election Polls and Strategic Voting, published in American Political Science Review, 91 (1), March 1997, pp. 135-147.
An Experimental Study of Constant-sum Centipede Games, (with Thomas R. Palfrey and Richard D. McKelvey), published in International Journal of Game Theory, 25 (3), 1996, pp. 269-287.
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