Working Papers

Mechanism Design with Renegotiation and Costly Messages, March 2006.

Collective Reputation, Professional Regulation and Franchising, (with Tim Guinnane),  September 2007. Previously known as ''Reputational Externality and Self-Regulation''.

Simple Efficient Contracts in Complex Environments,  Nov 2007 version. Forthcoming in Econometrica.

Imperfect Commitment and the Revelation Principle: the Multi-Agent Case with Transferable Utility, (with Soenje Reiche), August 2007. Forthcoming in Economics Letters. Longer version with fuller proofs here.

Other

Obituary for Leonid Hurwicz: Independent, 17 July 2008.

Selected Publications

• "Rivals' Search for Buried Treasure: Competition and Duplication in R&D," (2004) (with Kalyan Chatterjee), Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 35(1).
• "A One-Period Version of Rubinstein's Bargaining Game", (2003), Contributions to Theoretical Economics, vol.3: No.1.
• "Cooperation and Punishment" (with Jonathan Thomas), (2001), Econometrica, 69(4), 1061-1077.
• "Renegotiation in Repeated Games with Side-Payments" (with Sandeep Baliga), (2000), Games and Economic Behavior, 33(2), 159-176. .
• "Coalitional Bargaining with Competition to Make Offers", Games and Economic Behavior, 19, 211-220, (1997).
• "Reputation and Experimentation in Repeated Games with Two Long-Run Players", (with Jonathan Thomas), Econometrica, 65, pp.1153-1174, (1997).
• "Value, Consistency and Random Coalition Formation", Games and Economic Behavior, 12, pp.68-80, (1996).