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:
McBride, Michael, Gary Milante and Stergios Skaperdas, "War and Peace with Endogenous
State Capacity," September 2009.
Skaperdas, Stergios, "The
Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence," revised in
June 2009.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "International Trade and
Transnational Insecurity: How Comparative Advantage and Power are
Jointly Determined," May 2009.
McBride, Michael and Stergios Skaperdas, "Conflict, Settlement, and the
Shadow of the Future," May 2009.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, "Persuasion as a
Contest," revised, February 2009.
Evia, Jose Luis, Roberto Laserna and Stergios
Skaperdas, "Socio-political
Conflict and
Economic Performance in Bolivia," revised, February 2008.
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.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues," revised, July 2008.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and
Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Domestic
Conflict," forthcoming, Journal
of International Economics.
[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, “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 2008)
"The Global
Economy"
(Economics
and International Studies 13) (Winter 2008)
"The Global Economy"
(Economics
and International Studies 13) (Winter 2007)
"Special Topics in
Microeconomic Theory" (Theory of Contests), Spring 2008
"Topics in Political
Economy" (Economics 279E,F) (Winter and
Spring 2007)
MISCELLANEOUS
Impressions from Rwanda (June 2009)
Thoughts
on the Economy (September 16, 2007)
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