Stergios Skaperdas
Professor of Economics
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
1-949-824-4167
email: sskaperd at uci.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Short Bio
RECENT PAPERS:
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, "Persuasion as a
Contest," November 2007.
Evia, Jose Luis, Roberto Laserna and Stergios Skaperdas, "Socio-political
Conflict and
Economics Performance in Bolivia," June 2007.
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.
Konrad, Kai A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, "The Market for
Protection and the Origin of the State," (Also circulated
in 2004
under
"What
Kind of Order Out of Anarchy: Autocracy, Self-Governance, and Predatory
Competition"), revised in March 2006.
McBride, Michael and Stergios Skaperdas, "Explaining Conflict
in Low-Income
Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future,"
revised in May 2006. [Please note that section 3 had mistakes in
previous versions that have been corrected in this version.]
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues," preliminary draft,
November 2005.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and
Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Domestic
Conflict," revised, March 2006.
Robson, Alexander and
Skaperdas, Stergios, "Costly
Enforcement of Property Rights
and the Coase Theorem," forthcoming in Economic Theory.
Skaperdas, Stergios, "An
Economic Approach to Analyzing
Civil Wars,"
forthcoming in Economics of Governance
(Special issue in
memory of Herschel I. Grossman).
Konrad, Kai A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, "Succession Rules and
Leadership Rents,"
revised version forthcoming in Journal
of Conflict Resolution.
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, “Turning
‘Citizens’ 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, AInsecure 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.
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE PREVIOUS
CENTURY:
Skaperdas, Stergios, "Contest
Success Functions," Economic
Theory, February 1996, 7, 283-290.
Skaperdas,
Stergios and Li, Gan, ARisk
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, AGangs
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, AConflict
and Attitudes Toward Risk,@
American Economic Review, Papers
and Proceedings, May 1991, 81 (2), 116-20.
(Requires jstor access.)
TEACHING
"Microeconomic Theory I"
(Economics 210A) (Fall 2007)
"The Global
Economy"
(Economics
and International Studies 13) (Winter 2008)
"The Global Economy"
(Economics
and International Studies 13) (Winter 2007)
"Topics in Political
Economy" (Economics 279E,F) (Winter and
Spring 2007)
MISCELLANEOUS
Thoughts
on the Economy (September 16, 2007)
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