RECENT AND OTHER SELECTED PAPERS
Skaperdas, Stergios and Vaidya, Samarth, “Investing in Influence: How Minority Interests Can Prevail in a Democracy,” 2023
Skaperdas, Stergios and Testa, Patrick, “National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development,” 2023
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos, Constantinos, ,“Trade,Insecurity,and the Costs of Conflict,” in C.F.Howlett, C.Peterson, D. Buffton, and D.L.Hostetter (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Peace History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 609-628.
Chun, Kyung nok, Zachary Schaller and Stergios Skaperdas, “Why Are There Strikes?,” Revue d’économie politique, 2020.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “The Decline of US Power and the Future of Conflict Management after Covid,” Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public, Policy, 2020, 26(3).
Schaller, Zachary and Stergios Skaperdas, “Bargaining and Conflict with Up-front Investments: How Power Asymmetries Matter,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020
Sambanis, Nicholas, Skaperdas, Stergios and Wohlforth, William, “External Intervention, Identity, and Civil War,” Comparative Political Studies, 2020.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, “Why Did Pre-modern States Adopt Big-God Religions?,” Public Choice, March 2020, 182(3), 373-394.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, “Contested Political Persuasion,” in R. Congleton, B. Grofman, and S. Voight (eds), Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, 2019.
McBride, M., S. Skaperdas, P. Tsai, 2018, “Why Go to Court? Bargaining Failure under the Shadow of Trial with Complete Information,” European Journal of Political Economy
Skaperdas, Stergios, Toukan, Amjad and Vaidya, Samarth, “Difference-form Persuasion Contests,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016. Supplementary Appendix
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Myths and Self-Deceptions about the Greek Debt Crisis”, Revue d’économie politique, December, 2015.
Sambanis, Nicholas, Skaperdas, Stergios and Wohlforth, William, “Nation-Building through War,“ American Political Science Review, 2015.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., McBride, Michael, and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Trade and Insecure Resources,” Journal of International Economics, 2015.
Review of Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy unbound: why self-governance works better than your think (Cambridge Univ. Press) in Public Choice, 2015.
McBride, Michael and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future,“ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 75-89.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Proprietary Public Finance: Its Emergence and Evolution out of Anarchy,” in Dominguez-Vazquez J. and Winer S. (eds), Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Dimensions, 2014, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Evia, Jose Luis, Roberto Laserna and Stergios Skaperdas, “Sociopolitical Conflict and Economic Performance in Bolivia,” in Warneryd, K (ed.), The Economics of Conflict: Theory and Empirical Evidence, 2014, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jia, Hao, Skaperdas, Stergios, and Vaidya, Samarth, “Contest Functions: Theoretical Foundations and Issues in Estimation,“ International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., McBride, Michael, and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Governance and Norms as Determinants of Arming,“ Revue d’économie politique, 2012, 122(2), 197-212
“Seven Myths about the Greek Debt Crisis,” October 28, 2011, UC Irvine Economics Working Paper; Greek version
Jia, Hao and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Technologies of Conflict,” published in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, 2012.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos, Constantinos, “Trade in the Shadow of Power,” published in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, 2012.
Konrad, Kai A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, “The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State,“ Economic Theory, 2012.
McBride, Michael, Gary Milante and Stergios Skaperdas, “Peace and War with Endogenous State Capacity,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2011.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence,” Economics of Governance, 2011.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, “Persuasion as a Contest,” Economic Theory, 2012.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos, Constantinos, “Globalization and Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues,” published in Hess, G.D. (ed.) Guns and Butter:
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos, Constantinos, “Globalization and Domestic Conflict,” Journal of International Economics, December 2008 [Includes Supplementary Appendix.]
Robson, Alexander and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Costly Enforcement of Property Rights and the Coase Theorem,” Economic Theory, July 2008, 36(1), 109-128.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “An Economic Approach to Analyzing Civil Wars,” Economics of Governance, 2008, 9(1), 25-44. (Special issue in memory of Herschel I. Grossman).
Garfinkel, Michelle R. and Stergios Skaperdas, “Economics of Conflict: An Overview,” in T. Sandler and K. Hartley (eds.), Handbook of Defense Economics, Vol. II, 2007, 649-709.
McBride, Michael and Stergios Skaperdas, “Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future,” in M. Gradstein and K.A. Konrad, (eds.), Institutions and Norms in Economic Development, 141-161, 2007, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Please note that section 3 had mistakes in previous versions that have been corrected in this version.]
Konrad, Kai A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, “Succession Rules and Leadership Rents,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, August 2007, 51(4), 622-645.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Bargaining versus Fighting,” Defence and Peace Economics, December 2006 (Special issue in memory of Jack Hirshleifer).
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Anarchy,” Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, edited by Barry Weingast and Donald Wittman, 2006, Oxford University Press.
Castillo, Ramon A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, “All in the Family or Public? Law and Appropriative Costs as Determinants of Ownership Structure,” Economics of Governance, 2005, 6(2), 93-104.
Skaperdas, Stergios, TurningCitizens into Consumers: Economic Growth and the Level of Public Discourse, in Breton, A., Galeotti, G., Salmon, P., and Wintrobe, R. (eds.), Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics, 2003, pp. 30-43, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Restraining the Genuine Homo economicus: Why the Economy Cannot Be Divorced from its Governance,” Economics and Politics, (special issue in honor of Mancur Olson), July 2003, 15(2), 135-162.
Anbarci, Nejat, Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos, Constantinos, “Comparing Bargaining Solutions in the Shadow of Conflict: How Norms Against Threats Can Have Real Effects, Journal of Economic Theory, September 2002, 106(1), 1-16.
Genicot, Garance and Skaperdas, Stergios, Investing in Conflict Management, Journal of Conflict Resolution, February 2002, 46(1), 154-170.
Skaperdas, Stergios, Warlord Competition, Journal of Peace Research, July 2002, 39(4), 435-446.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Syropoulos, Constantinos, Insecure Property and the Efficiency of Exchange,” Economic Journal, January 2002, 112, 133-146.
Skaperdas, Stergios, AThe Political Economy of Organized Crime: Providing Protection When the State Does Not, Economics of Governance, 2001 (2), 173-202;
(reprinted in Glazer, A. and Konrad, K.A. (eds.), Conflict and Governance,2003, Heidelberg: Springer Publishers.)
Skaperdas, Stergios and Syropoulos, Constantinos, “Guns, Butter, and Openness: On the Relationship Between Security and Trade, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2001, 91(2), 353-357.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Contest Success Functions,” Economic Theory, February 1996, 7, 283-290.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Li, Gan, Risk Aversion in Contests, Economic Journal, July 1995, 105, 951-962. (Requires jstor access.)
Supplementary Appendix
Skaperdas, Stergios and Grofman, Bernard, AModeling Negative Campaigning, American Political Science Review, March 1995, 89, 49-61. (Requires jstor access.)
Skaperdas, Stergios and Syropoulos, Constantinos, Gangs as Primitive States, in G. Fiorentini and S. Peltzman (eds.), The Economics of Organised Crime, 1995, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Skaperdas, Stergios, “Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights” American Economic Review, September 1992, 82(4), 720-739. (Requires jstor access.)
Skaperdas, Stergios, Conflict and Attitudes Toward Risk, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 1991, 81 (2), 116-20. (Requires jstor access.)