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
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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, 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 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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