Research

Articles in Refereed Journals

Collective action and intra-group conflict with fixed budgets (with Kai A. Konrad), Defence and Peace Economics, 35(1), 2024, pp. 1-23. 

How to preempt attacks in multi-front conflict with limited resources (with Kai A. Konrad), European Journal of Operational Research, 305(1), 2023, pp. 493-500.

Too big to prevail: The paradox of power in coalition formation (with Changxia Ke, Anthony Newell, and Lionel Page), Games and Economic Behavior, 135, 2022, pp. 394-410. 

The volunteer's dilemma in finite populations (with Kai A. Konrad), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31, 2021, pp. 1277-1290. 

Escalation in conflict games: On beliefs and selection (with Kai A. Konrad), Experimental Economics, 23, 2020, pp. 750-787.

Online shopping and platform design with ex ante registration requirements (with Johannes Münster), Management Science, 64(1), 2018, pp. 360-380.

To deter or to moderate? Alliance formation in contests with incomplete information (with Kai A. Konrad), Economic Inquiry, 56(3), 2018, pp. 1447-1463, Symposium on Contests: Theory and Evidence.

Balance of power and the propensity of conflict (with Luisa Herbst and Kai A. Konrad), Games and Economic Behavior, 103, 2017, pp. 168-184.

Technology transfers for climate change (with May Elsayyad), International Economic Review, 57(3), 2016, pp. 1057-1084.

Bargaining with incomplete information: Evolutionary stability in finite populations (with Kai A. Konrad), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 65, 2016, pp. 118-131.

Evolutionary determinants of war (with Kai A. Konrad), Defence and Peace Economics, 27(4), 2016, pp. 520-534.

Information sharing in contests (with Dan Kovenock and Johannes Münster), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 24(3), 2015, pp. 570-596.

Endogenous group formation in experimental contests (with Luisa Herbst and Kai A. Konrad), European Economic Review, 74, 2015, pp. 163-189.

Alliances in the shadow of conflict (with Changxia Ke and Kai A. Konrad), Economic Inquiry, 53(2), 2015, pp. 854–871.

Taxation and market power (with Kai A. Konrad and Wieland Müller), Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(1), 2014, pp. 173-202.

Brothers in arms - An experiment on the alliance puzzle (with Changxia Ke and Kai A. Konrad), Games and Economic Behavior, 77(1), 2013, pp. 61-76.

Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance, Social Choice and Welfare, 41(1), 2013, pp. 99-131.

Information acquisition in conflicts (with Johannes Münster), Economic Theory, 54(1), 2013, pp. 99-129.

Evolutionarily stable in-group favoritism and out-group spite in intergroup conflict (with Kai A. Konrad), Journal of Theoretical Biology, 306, 2012, pp. 61-67.

Strategic information acquisition and the mitigation of global warming, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 59(2), 2010, pp. 206-217.

Private versus complete information in auctions (with Johannes Münster), Economics Letters, 101(3), 2008, pp. 214-216.

Working Papers

High minority power facilitates democratization across ethnic fault lines (with Luke Glowacki and Hannes Rusch), University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2023-18.

Alliance formation in regional space: Shifting the battlefront between competing powers (with Kai A. Konrad), Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2023-15.

Do groups fight more? Experimental evidence on conflict initiation (with Changxia Ke and Sophia Seelos), University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2023-16.

Taxation, information acquisition, and trade in decentralized markets: Theory and test (with Tri Vi Dang and Xiaoxi Liu), University of Innsbruck Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2022-08. 

A glance into the tunnel: Experimental evidence on income comparisons under uncertainty (with Harald Lang), Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance Working Paper No. 2015-13. 

Aspirations of the middle class: Voting on redistribution and status concerns (with Kai A. Konrad), MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance Research Paper Series, Preprint No. 2011-06.

Social mobility and redistributive taxation (with Kai A. Konrad), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7997.