Selected publications
"Equilibrium Screening and Categorical Inequality"
with Mogens Fosgerau and Rajiv Sethi, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15(3), 201–242, 2023
"Evolution and Kantian morality: A correction and addendum"
with Ingela Alger, Games and Economic Behavior, 2023
"An Analytically Solvable Principal-Agent Model"
with Lars-Göran Mattsson, Games and Economic Behavior, 140, 33-49, 2023
"Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint: an analytical solution"
with Laurent Miclo and Daniel Spiro, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 101, 2022
"The Dynamics of Fitness and Wealth Distributions — A Stochastic Game-Theoretic Model"
with Sylvain Gibaud, Journal of Dynamics and Games, 2022.
"Understanding the co-evolution of mask-wearing and epidemics : a network perspective"
with Zirou Qiua et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (26), e2123355119, 2022.
Supplementary material
"Does moral play equilibrate?"
with Immanuel Bomze and Werner Schachinger, Economic Theory, 71, 305–315, 2021
"Bill Sandholm in Memoriam"
with Larry Samuelson, International Journal of Game Theory, 49, 673-680, 2020
"Delegation of investment decisions, and optimal renumeration of agents"
with Assar Lindbeck, European Economic Review, 129, 103559, 2020
"Evolution of preferences in structured populations: Genes, guns, and culture"
with Ingela Alger and Laurent Lehmann, Journal of Economic Theory 185, 2020
"Revealed preferences in a sequential prisoners’ dilemma: A horse-race between six utility functions"
with Topi Miettinen, Michael Kosfeld and Ernst Fehr, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organisation 173, 1-25, 2020
"Evolutionary models of preference formation"
with Ingela Alger, Annual Review of Economics 11, 329-354, 2019
"Morality: Evolutionary Foundations and Policy Implications"
with Ingela Alger, in Basu, Rosenblatt and Sepulveda (eds.), The State of the World, the State of Economics, MIT Press 2019
"Private versus public monopoly"
with Jun Chen, in Mishra and Ray (eds.), Markets, Governance and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development,. Oxford University Press, 2018
"A note on the invariance of the distribution of the maximum"
with Mogens Fosgerau, Per Olov Lindberg and , Lars-Göran Mattsson, Journal of Mathematical Economics 74, 56-61, 2018
"Robustness to strategic uncertainty in the Nash demand game"
with Ola Andersson and Cédric Argnenton, Mathematic Social Science 91, 1-5, 2018
"Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists"
with Ingela Alger, Games 8, 38, 2017
"Epistemically robust strategy subsets"
with Geir B. Asheim and Mark Voorneveld, Games 7, 37, 2016
"Evolution and Kantian morality"
with Ingela Alger, Games and Economic Behavior 98, 56–67, 2016
"An elementary proof that well-behaved utility functions exist"
with Mark Voorneveld, Theoretical Economics Letters 6, 450-457, 2016
"What is Nash equilibrium?"
with Rajiv Sethi, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 63: 5, 526- 528, 2016
"Does evolution lead to maximizing behavior?"
with Laurent Lehmann and Ingela Alger, Evolution 69-7, 1858–1873, 2015
"Tenable strategy blocks and settled equilibria"
with Roger Myerson, Econometrica 83, 943-976, 2015
"Robustness to strategic uncertainty"
with Ola Andersson and Cédric Argenton, Games and Economic Behavior 85, 272-288, 2014
"Extreme values, invariance and choice probabilities"
with Lars-Göran Mattsson and Per-Olov Lindberg, Transportation Research Part B 59, 81-95, 2014
"Homo moralis: Preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matchning"
with Ingela Alger, Econometrica 81, 2269-2302, 2013
"An incentive-compatible Condorcet jury theorem"
with Jean-Francois Laslier, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 115, 84-108, 2013
"Social norms and economic incentives infirms"
with Steffen Huck and Dorothea Kübler, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83, 173-185, 2012
"A generalization of Hamilton´s rule -- Love others how much?"
with Ingela Alger, Journal of Theoretical Biology 299, 42-54, 2012
"A scent of lemon - seller meets buyer with a noisy quality observation"
with Mark Voorneveld, Games 2, 163-186, 2011
"Kinship, incentives and evolution"
with Ingela Alger, American Economic Review 100, 1727-1760, 2010
"Multiple solutions under quasi-exponential discounting"
with Nicolas Vieille, Economic Theory 39, 513-526, 2009
"Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism"
with Ingela Alger, in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur (eds), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, 178-201. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
"Language, meaning and games - A model of communication, coordination and evolution" with Stefano Demichelis, American Economic Review 98, 1292-1311, 2008
"Long-run price competition" with Prajit Dutta and Alexander Matros, RAND Journal of Economics 38, 291-313, 2007
"Political polarization" with Avinash Dixit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 7351-7356, 2007
"Better may be worse: Some monotonicity results and paradoxes in discrete choice under uncertainty" with Lars-Göran Mattsson, Mark Voorneveld, Theory and Decision 63, 121-151, 2007
"Natural selection and social preferences" with Marcus Salomonsson, Journal of Theoretical Biology 239, 79-92, 2006
"Discounting and altruism to future decision-makers" with Maria Sáez-Marti, Journal of Economic Theory 122, 254-266, 2005
"Testing game theory" in Steffen Huck (ed.), Advances in Understanding Strategic Behaviour: Game Theory, Experiments and Bounded Rationality. Essays in Honour of Werner Güth. Palgrave MacMillan, 85-104, 2004
"Social norms and welfare state dynamics" with Assar Lindbeck and Sten Nyberg, Journal of the European Economic Association 1, Papers and Proceedings, 533-542, 2003
"Deterministic approximation of stochastic evolution in games" with Michel Benaïm, Econometrica 71, 873-903, 2003
"Punctuality - a cultural trait as an equilibrium" with Kaushik Basu, in R. Arnott et al. (eds.), Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz MIT Press, Cambridge USA, 2003
"Evolution in games with endogenous mistake probabilities" with Eric van Damme, Journal of Economic Theory 106, 296-315, 2002
"Probabilistic choice and procedurally bounded rationality" with Lars-Göran Mattsson, Games and Economic Behavior 41, 61-78, 2002
"Neutrally stable outcomes in cheap-talk coordination games" with Abhijit Banerjee, Games and Economic Behavior 32, 1-24, 2000
"Internal efficiency and external conditions" In Maskin E. and Simonovitz A. (eds.), Planning, Shortage and Transformation - Essays in Honor of János Kornai Cambridge (USA): MIT Press, 2000
"Clever agents in Young's evolutionary bargaining model" with Maria Sáez-Marti, Journal of Economic Theory 86, 268-279, 1999
"Social norms and economic incentives in the welfare state" with Assar Lindbeck and Sten Nyberg, Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, 1-35, 1999
"The work of John Nash in game theory" with Harold Kuhn, John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, Eric van Damme, John Nash and Peter Hammerstein Journal of Economic Theory 69, 153-185, 1996
"Nash equilibrium and evolution by imitation" with J. Björnerstedt, in K. Arrow et al. (eds.), The Rational Foundations of Economic Behaviour, London: Macmillan, 155-171, 1996
"Evolutionary selection against dominated strategies" with Josef Hofbauer, Journal of Economic Theory 71, 558-573, 1996
"Evolution and rationality: Some recent game-theoretic results" with Abhijit Banerjee, in Beth Allen (ed.), Economics in a Changing World, Volume 2, Microeconomics, 90-114. London: Macmillan, 1996
"Evolutionary selection and rational behavior" with Abhijit Banerjee, in Alan Kirman and Mark Salmon (eds.), Learning and Rationality in Economics Oxford (UK) & Cambridge (USA): Basil Blackwell, 343-363, 1995
"Does neutral stability imply Lyapunov stability?" with Immanuel M. Bomze, Games and Economic Behavior 11, 173-192, 1995
"Evolutionary selection in normal-form games" with Klaus Ritzberger, Econometrica 63, 1371-1399, 1995
"A model of political equilibrium in representative democracy" with Assar Lindbeck, Journal of Public Economics 51, 195-209, 1993
"On self-enforcement in extensive-form games" Games and Economic Behavior 4, 450-462, 1992
"Strategy subsets closed under rational behavior" with Kaushik Basu, Economics Letters 36, 141-146, 1991
"Altruism and time consistency - the economics of fait accompli" with Assar Lindbeck, Journal of Political Economy 96, 1165-1182, 1988
"Constrained pareto-optimal taxation of labour and capital incomes" with Lars-Gunnar Svensson, Journal of Public Economics 34, 355-366, 1987
"Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition" with Assar Lindbeck, Public Choice 52, 273-297, 1987
"Discounted-value representations of temporal preferences" Mathematics of Operations Research 10, 244-250, 1985
"Competition and accessibility on regional labour market" with Lars-Göran Mattsson, Regional Science and Urban Economics 11, 471-497, 1981
"A minimum information principle - theory and practice" with Folke Snickars, Regional Science and Urban Economics 7, 137-168, 1977