Working Papers


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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