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, CambridgeCambridge 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)


ttp://eee.uci.edu/08w/62020/