Research
Publications
"Pork barrel politics, voter turnout, and inequality: An experimental study" (with Thorsten Giertz). 2024. Games and Economic Behavior (in press) PDF online materials Additional materials: QRE Voluntary voting PDF mw QRE Voluntary voting win probabilities PDF mw QRE Candidate strategies voluntary voting PDF mw QRE Candidate strategies compulsory voting PDF mw QRE Candidate payoff matrices Excel
"Candidate entry and political polarization: An experimental study" (with Tom Palfrey). 2019. American Political Science Review 113, 1: 209-25 PDF
"The curse of uninformed voting: An experimental study" (with Michael Seebauer). 2016. Games and Economic Behavior 97 (May): 205-26 PDF online materials [previous version: PDF]
"Candidate entry and political polarization: An antimedian voter theorem" (with Tom Palfrey). 2014. American Journal of Political Science 58 (1): 127-43 PDF
"Redistribution and market efficiency: An experimental study" (with Ernesto Reuben). 2013. Journal of Public Economics 101 (May): 39-52 PDF
"Political quid pro quo agreements: An experimental study" (with Ernesto Reuben and Agnieszka Tymula). 2013. American Journal of Political Science 57 (3): 582-97 PDF
"Voting mechanism design: Modeling institutions in experiments." 2012. In: Experimental Political Science. B. Kittel, W.J. Luhan, and R.B. Morton (eds.): 72-91. Palgrave-Macmillan, ECPR Research Methods Series PDF
"Public opinion polls, voter turnout, and welfare: An experimental study" (with Arthur Schram). 2010. American Journal of Political Science 54 (3): 700-17 PDF
"A citizen candidate model with private information" (with Tom Palfrey). 2009. In: The Political Economy of Democracy. E. Aragonés, C. Beviá, H. Llavador, and N. Schofield (eds.): 15‐29 PDF
"Welfare reducing polls" (with Jacob Goeree). 2007. Economic Theory 31 (1): 51-68 PDF
"Neighborhood information exchange and voter participation: An experimental study" (with Arthur Schram). 2006. American Political Science Review 100 (2): 235-48 PDF
Working papers
"Political polarization: Some causal evidence from incentivized experiments." 2024 (short review paper). PDF
"Standing versus ad hoc committees with costly information acquisition" (with Michael Seebauer). 2021. PDF
"Patents versus subsidies: A laboratory experiment" (with Donja Darai and Nadja Trhal). 2009
"Beliefs and cooperation". 2006