Sandeep Baliga
Managerial
Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Jeff Ely and I have a blog.
CV.
Research
Selected
Published Papers and Current Projects:
International Relations
PhD Course Conflict
and Cooperation
“The Strategy of
Manipulating Conflict,” with Tomas Sjostrom (FINAL VERSION
March 2011) (old title: Decoding Terror) forthcoming American Economic Review.
“The Hobbesian Trap,” Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace
and Conflict, eds. Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas, Oxford
University Press: Oxford, 2010. NEW
Conflict and Cooperation,
book project in progress with Tomas Sjostrom.
“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, Journal of Political
Economy, 116 (6), 1023-1058 (Short
presentation)
“Domestic
Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace,”
with David O. Lucca and Tomas Sjostrom,
forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies
(Online Appendix) (Short presentation)
“Dangers
of a Weak Dictator,” an opinion piece in New York Times loosely based on this paper.
“Martial
Democracies,” Wall Street Journal article based on this paper
“Conflict
Games with Payoff Uncertainty,” with Tomas Sjostrom (old title: The Logic
of Mutual Fear)
“Reputation
and Conflict,” with Tomas Sjostrom (slides)
“The Self-Defeating
Rationale for Torture,” with Jeff Ely.
Schedules for related
conferences:
Conflict and Cooperation March 2006
Conflict
and Cooperation November 2006
Bounded Rationality and Economic
Decision-Making
“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”) RAND Journal of Economics.
“Mnemonomics:
The Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Memory Kludge,” November 2011 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics with
Jeff Ely
“Polarization and Ambiguity,”
with Eran Hanany and Peter Klibanoff.
Theory of
the Firm/Organization Design
“Liquidity and Manipulation of Executive Compensation Schemes,” with Ulf Axelson, Review of Financial Studies, January 2008
“Contracting with Third Parties,”
with Tomas Sjostrom, February 2009, American
Economic Journal: Microeconomics (new journal of American
Economic Association)
“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.
“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.
Teaching: Course Page for PhD
Contract Theory and Mechanism Design Course
Mechanism Design and Implementation
Nobel
Prize winner, Eric Maskin (my PhD advisor!) on this topic.
“Contracting with Third Parties,”
with Tomas Sjostrom, February 2009, American
Economic Journal: Microeconomics (new journal of American
Economic Association)
“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: Amsterdam.
“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.
Cheap-Talk
“Durable Cheap Talk Equilibria,”
with Tomas Sjostrom, forthcoming in Advances
in Applied Economics: Communication Games, Rick Harbaugh editor, Elsevier.
“Coordination,
Spillovers and Cheap-Talk,” with Stephen Morris, Journal of Economic Theory, 105(2),
pp 450-468, August 2002.
Repeated Games
“Renegotiation
in Repeated Games with Side-Payments,” with Robert Evans, Games and Economic Behavior, November
2000