Sandeep Baliga
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
(MEDS)
Research
Selected Published Papers and Current Projects:
International Relations
“Arms Races and Negotiations,” with Tomas Sjostrom, Review of Economic Studies, 71, 351-369, 2004 (Also check out Ted Bergstrom’s review in Vol 2 of NAJ Economics at http://www.najecon.org/).
“Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation,” with Tomas Sjostrom, accepted at Journal of Political Economy NEW VERSION (Short presentation)
“Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace,” with David O. Lucca and Tomas Sjostrom (Short presentation)
Schedules for related conferences:
Conflict and Cooperation March 2006
Conflict
and Cooperation November 2006
Mechanism Design and Implementation
Nobel Prize winner, Eric
Maskin (my PhD advisor!) on this topic.
“Contracting with Third
Parties,” with Tomas Sjostrom, March 2008, accepted for publication, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(new journal of
American Economic Association) FINAL VERSION
“Mechanism
Design for the Environment,” with Eric Maskin (2003), Handbook of
Environmental Economics, series editors K. Arrow and M. Intriligator,
volume editors K Maler and J. Vincent. Elsevier Science:
“Mechanism Design: Recent
Developments,” with Tomas Sjostrom for the New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, 2nd Edition (editors Steven Durlauf and Larry Blume).
“Market
Research and Market Design,” with Rakesh Vohra, Advances in Theoretical Economics, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Article 5, 2003
"The Not-So-Secret-Agent: Professional Monitors, Hierarchies and Implementation," Review of Economic Design, 7, pp 17-26, 2002.
"Collusion, Renegotiation and Implementation," with Sandro Brusco, Social Choice and Welfare, 17, pp 69-83, January 2000.
“Implementation In Incomplete Information Environments: the
Use of Multi-Stage Games,” Games and Economic Behavior, 27, 173-183,
May 1999.
"Interactive
Implementation," with Tomas Sjostrom, Games and Economic Behavior,
27, pp 38-63, April 1999.
“The Theory of
Implementation when the Planner is a Player,” with Luis Corchon and Tomas Sjostrom, Journal
of Economic Theory, 77(1), pp 15-33, November 1997.
Theory of the Firm/Organization Design
“Contracting with Third
Parties,” with Tomas Sjostrom, March 2008, accepted for publication, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(new journal of
American Economic Association) FINAL VERSION
"Optimal Design of Peer Review and Self-Assessment Schemes," (former title "Not Invented Here") with Tomas Sjostrom, RAND Journal of Economics, pp 27-51, Spring 2001.
"Decentralization and Collusion,” with Tomas Sjostrom, Journal of Economic Theory 83(2), pp 196-232, December 1998.
“Monitoring and Collusion with ‘Soft’ Information,”
Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization, 15(2), pp 434-440, July 1999.
Biases and Competition
“Market Forces and Behavioral Biases:
Cost-Misallocation and Irrational Pricing ,” with Nabil Al-Najjar and David
Besanko, April 2006 (former title “The Sunk Cost Bias and Managerial Pricing
Practices”) forthcoming in RAND Journal of Economics.
Cheap-Talk
“Durable Cheap Talk
Equilibria,” with Tomas Sjostrom, forthcoming in Advances in Applied
Economics: Communication Games, Rick Harbaugh editor, Elsevier.
“Arms Races and Negotiations,” with Tomas Sjostrom, Review of Economic Studies, 71, 351-369 , 2004 (Also check out Ted Bergstrom’s review in Vol 2 of NAJ Economics at http://www.najecon.org/).
"Coordination, Spillovers and Cheap-Talk," with Stephen Morris, Journal of Economic Theory, 105(2), pp 450-468, August 2002.
“The Theory of Implementation when the Planner is a Player,” with Luis Corchon and Tomas Sjostrom, Journal of Economic Theory, 77(1), pp 15-33, November 1997.
Repeated Games
"Renegotiation in Repeated Games with Side-Payments," with Robert Evans, Games and Economic Behavior, November 2000
Corporate Finance
"The Emergence and Persistence of the Anglo-Saxon and German Financial Systems," with Ben Polak, Review of Financial Studies., Spring 2004, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp 129-163.
“Liquidity and
Manipulation of Executive Compensation Schemes,” with Ulf Axelson, January 2008 FINAL VERSION
C.V.
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Teaching
Course Page for PhD
Contract Theory and Mechanism Design Course