Published and Forthcoming Papers


An Undecidable Statement Regarding Zero-Sum Games forthcoming,
Games and Economic Behavior
(working paper)

Is an Ultimatum the Last Word on Crisis Bargaining? (with Brenton Kenkel)
Journal of Politics, 83 (10), January 2021, pp. 87-102
(working paper)

A Nonspeculation Theorem with an Application to Committee Design (with Jidong Chen and Kris Ramsay)
B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 17 (2), April 2017

Information and International Institutions Revisited (with Jinhee Jo and Brenton Kenkel)
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59 (1), February 2015, pp. 149-160

A Straightforward Proof of Arrow's Theorem
Economics Bulletin, 34 (3), August 2014, pp.1792-1797
(working paper)

Credibility and Commitment in Crisis Bargaining (with Adam Meirowitz and Kris Ramsay)
Political Science Research and Methods, 1 (1), June 2013, pp.27-52
(working paper)

Consistency of Choice in Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons (with Kevin Clarke)
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 24 (2), June 2012, pp.531-541
(working paper)

Symmetric Games With Only Asymmetric Equilibria
Games and Economic Behavior, 75 (1), May 2012, pp.424-427
(working paper)

The Minimal Covering Set in Large Tournaments (with Alex Scott)
Social Choice and Welfare, 38 (1), January 2012, pp. 1-9
(working paper)

Uncertainty and Incentives in Crisis Bargaining: Game-Free Analysis of International Conflict (with Kris Ramsay)
American Journal of Political Science, 55 (1), January 2011, pp. 149-169
(working paper, supplemental appendix, old version )

When is Shuttle Diplomacy Worth the Commute? Information Sharing through Mediation (with Kris Ramsay)
World Politics, 62 (4), October 2010, pp. 529-560
(working paper)

Mechanism Design Goes to War: Peaceful Outcomes with Interdependent and Correlated Types (with Kris Ramsay)
Review of Economic Design, 13 (3), September, 2009, pp. 233-250
(working paper)

Risky but Rational: War as an Institutionally-Induced Gamble (with Hein Goemans)
Journal of Politics, 71 (1), January, 2009, pp. 35-54
(working paper)

Choosing From a Large Tournament
Social Choice and Welfare, 31 (2), August, 2008, pp. 301-309
(working paper)

Rent-Seeking Contests with Incomplete Information
Public Choice, 135(3-4), June 2008, pp. 225-236
(working paper)

Mutual Optimism and War
American Journal of Political Science, 51 (4), October 2007, pp. 738-754
(working paper)

The Swing Voter's Curse with Adversarial Preferences (with Jaehoon Kim)
Journal of Economic Theory, 135 (1), July 2007, pp. 236-252
(working paper)

The Common Priors Assumption: A Comment on Bargaining and the Nature of War (with Kris Ramsay)
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50 (4), August 2006, pp. 607-613
(working paper)

Repeated Downsian Electoral Competition (with John Duggan)
International Journal of Game Theory, 35 (1), December 2006, pp. 39-69
(working paper)

An Application of Asymptotic Density to Characterizing Voting Rules
Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications, 31, 2005, pp. 29-37

Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates (with John Duggan)
Games and Economic Behavior, 51 (2), May 2005, pp. 490--522
(working paper)

Group Support and Top-Heavy Rules
Economics Letters, 84 (2), August 2004, pp. 255-259
(working paper)

May's Theorem with an Infinite Population
Social Choice and Welfare, 23 (2), October 2004, pp. 275-294
(working paper)

A Note on the Condorcet Jury Theorem with Supermajority Rules
Social Choice and Welfare, 20 (1), February 2003, pp. 27-32
(working paper)

The Swing Voter's Curse: Comment (with Jaehoon Kim)
American Economic Review, 92 (4), September 2002, pp. 1264-1268
(working paper)

Stability and Coordination in Duverger's Law: A Formal Model of Pre-Election Polls and Strategic Voting
American Political Science Review, 91 (1), March 1997, pp. 135-147

An Experimental Study of Constant-sum Centipede Games
International Journal of Game Theory, 25 (3), 1996, pp. 269-287

Working Papers