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A Carrot and Stick Approach to Agenda-Setting
with A Glazer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, DOI
The most recent version is here: DahmGlazerCarrotStick (June 2015).
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This paper models a legislature in which the same agenda setter serves for two periods, showing how he can exploit a legislature (completely) in the first period by promising future benefits to legislators who support him. Continue reading
Free Mobility and Taste-Homogeneity of Jurisdiction Structures
International Journal of Game Theory, 2010, DOI
We consider a population of agents distributed on the unit interval. Agents form jurisdictions in order to provide a public facility and share its costs equally. Continue reading
Efficiency and Stability in a Discrete Model of Country Formation
with K. Cechlárová and V. Lacko, Journal of Global Optimization, 2001, DOI
This paper studies efficient and stable country configurations in a simple model of country formation. Continue reading
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