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Recent or Forthcoming Papers

  1. Willpower
  2. Common Property
  3. Asymmetries in Two-Stage Games with Identical Agents

 

Policy Initiative: Central Bank Gold Sales

  1. Latest Paper
  2. Nontechnical Briefing for Policymakers and Journalists
  3. Two Key Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
  4. Press Coverage


 
 
 
 


Recent or Forthcoming Papers



 


A. Willpower

"Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges" (with E. Ozdenoren and D. Silverman), May, 2006 DOWNLOAD PDF

B. Common Property

"Putting Free-Riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to the Common Property Problem" (with M. Heintzelman and S. Schott), December, 2006.
DOWNLOAD: .PDF

C. Asymmetries in Two-Stage Games with Identical Agents

"Using Lorenz Curves to Represent Firm Heterogeneity in Cournot Games" (with Greg Shaffer).  
 
 
 


Policy Initiative: Central Bank Gold Sales 




A. Latest Paper

"The Benefits of Expediting Government Gold Sales" (with Dale Henderson, John Irons, and Sebastian Thomas), Review of Financial Economics, (forthcoming, 2007) DOWNLOAD: .PDF.
 

B. Nontechnical Briefing for Policymakers and Journalists 

"A Note on Government Gold Policies" (with D. Henderson). latest draft: April, 1997.     DOWNLOAD:  .PDF
 

C. Two Key Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations 

Size of Production Inefficiency     DOWNLOAD: .PDF
Gain to Government from Earlier Sales     DOWNLOAD: .PDF.
 

D. Press Coverage 


 

E. Related Work by Others

 

 


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