Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 1998-Present

Director, SEEK Program, 2006-Present

Department Chair, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 2004-2006

Visting Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1999-2000

Assistant Professor, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 1995-98

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1992-1995

Research Areas

Professor Feddersen's teaching and research interests are in political economy with a specific interest in democratic institutions and their adaptation to online settings.

Current Projects

• Activists and Markets
• Information Aggregation and Participation in Elections
• Legislative Bargaining
• Ethical Models of Participation
• Development of software to permit groups to function democratically online

Representative Publications and Working Papers*

• “A Theory of Participation in Elections,” (joint with Alvaro Sandroni) to be revised and resubmitted to American Economic Review.
• "Deliberation, Preference Uncertainty and Voting Rules," (joint with David Austen-Smith) 2006. American Political Science Review 100: 209-218.
• "Deliberation and Voting Rules," (joint with David Austen-Smith) 2005. In Austen-Smith, D. and J. Duggan (eds) Social Choice and Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks, Berlin: Springer
• "Convicting the Innocent: The Inferiority of Unanimous Jury Verdicts under Strategic Voting," (joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer), American Political Science Review. Vol. 92, No. 1, March 1998. view abstract.
• "Voting Behavior and Information Aggregation in Elections with Private and Common Values," (joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer) Econometrica. Vol. 65, No. 5. view abstract.
• "The Swing Voter's Curse," 1996, American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 3. view abstract.

Current Papers Online

• "Saints and Markets," (joint with Thomas W. Gilligan), First version December 1996 this version August 1998. view abstract.
• "Abstention in Elections with Asymmetric Information and Diverse Preferences.", (joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer), June 1998. Figures1-2-5, Figure3 and Figure4. view abstract.

*The online papers are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To obtain a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader click here.

E-Mail to tfed@kellogg.northwestern.edu

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