Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Nageeb Ali, Jacob Goeree, and Thomas Palfrey, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.

• Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria, with Ying Chen and Joel Sobel, Econometrica 76(1), January 2008, pp. 117-136.

• A Note on Cheap Talk and Burned Money, Journal of Economic Theory 136(1), September 2007, pp. 749-758.
  • An earlier version, On Cheap Talk and Burned Money, contains additional results.

• Signaling Character in Electoral Competition, with Preston McAfee, American Economic Review 97(3), June 2007, pp. 852-870.
  • Supplementary Appendix.   Dilbert cartoon (from www.dilbert.com, 09/24/07, suggested by Nageeb Ali).

• Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk, with Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani, Journal of Economic Theory 134(1), May 2007, pp. 93-116.

Working Papers

• Strategic Communication with Lying Costs. January 2008.
  • This subsumes portions of a previous working paper "Information Transmission with Almost-Cheap Talk," the other portions of which are subsumed by "Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria."

• Opinions as Incentives, with Yeon-Koo Che. Revised February 2008.

• Social Learning in Elections, with Nageeb Ali. Revised October 2007. Earlier version peer reviewed by NAJ Economics 12:4.

• On Optimal Voting Rules under Homogeneous Preferences, with Arnaud Costinot. Revised August 2007.

• Would I Lie to You? On Social Preferences and Lying Aversion, with Sjaak Hurkens. Revised January 2008.

• Special Interest Politics and the Quality of Governance, with Doug Bernheim. October 2007 preliminary draft available upon request.

Philosophy Writings

• Quasi-Kantianism and Ethical Egoism, March 2000.

• In the Hands of Zombies, The Dualist 7(1): 5-19, Fall 2000.