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Published Papers
Opinions as Incentives, with Yeon-Koo Che, Journal of Political Economy, October 2009.
Strategic Communication with Lying Costs, Review of Economic Studies, October 2009.
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."
Would I Lie to You? On Social Preferences and Lying Aversion, with Sjaak Hurkens, Experimental Economics, June 2009.
Appendix 1 (Calculations). Appendix 2 (Subjects' Instructions).
Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, with Nageeb Ali, Jacob Goeree, and Thomas Palfrey, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2008.
Selecting Cheap-Talk Equilibria, with Ying Chen and Joel Sobel, Econometrica, January 2008.
A Note on Cheap Talk and Burned Money, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2007.
An earlier version, On Cheap Talk and Burned Money, contains additional results.
Signaling Character in Electoral Competition, with Preston McAfee, American Economic Review, June 2007.
Supplementary Appendix. Dilbert cartoon (from www.dilbert.com, 09/24/07, suggested by Nageeb Ali).
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Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk, with Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani, Journal of Economic Theory, May 2007.
Unpublished Papers and Work in Progress
Pandering to Persuade, with Yeon-Koo Che and Wouter Dessein. August 2010.
Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information, with Olivier Tercieux. Revised February 2010.
Observational Learning with Collective Preferences, with Nageeb Ali. August 2010.
This supersedes an earlier working paper "Social Learning in Elections."
On Optimal Voting Rules under Homogeneous Preferences, with Arnaud Costinot. Revised August 2007.
Special Interest Politics and the Quality of Governance, with Doug Bernheim. October 2007 draft available upon request.
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