Other Publications

  1. Covid-19 policies: how do the shelter-in-place policies of the states in the U.S. interact and reinforce each other? We use the model of tipping in the paper below.
  2. A paper on tipping – the process by which a socio-economic system can change suddenly from one state to another. We model this as a property of the Nash equilibria of games and show the existence of tipping sets, sets of players who can force everyone else to change their strategies.
  3. What are a corporation’s social responsibilities? A suggestion. 
  4. Discounting by Committee from Journal of Public Economics
  5. Time Consistency and Time Invariance in Collective Intertemporal Choice from Journal of Economic Theory
  6. A Model of Corporate Philanthropy with Ray Fisman and Vinay Nair
  7. Optimal Growth with Intertemporally Dependent Preferences: Review of Economic Studies
  8. Spatial Structure & Retail Trade: Bell Journal of Economics 
  9. Notes on the Economic Consequences of Uncertain Product Quality:Review of Economic Studies 
  10. Social Reinforcement: Cascades Entrapment and Tipping, American Economic Journals: Microeconomics
  11. Equity Efficiency and Increasing Returns: Review of Economic Studies 
  12. Planning Prices & Increasing Returns: Review of Economic Studies 
  13. National Income in a Dynamic Economy with Bengt Kriström
  14. Topological Social Choice
  15. Price Uncertainty and Derivative Securities
  16. Host-MNC Relations in Resource-Rich Countries with Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal
  17. The Geometry of Implementation: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Straightforward Games

More of my publications can be found at Academic Commons, on the web site of the National Bureau of Economic Research and on the web site of the Social Science Research Network. There is also a listing of my papers, with links to some of them, at REPEC.