Select Publications
Book Chapters
2023, 'Politics, Religion and the Evolution of the Welfare State', in The Economics of Religion, pp. 111 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811273148_0004
,Journal articles
2024, 'Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies', Review of Economic Studies, 91, pp. 340 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdad030
,2024, 'From Gridlock to Polarization', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4521276
,2023, 'Erratum to: OPTIMAL CHECKS AND BALANCES UNDER POLICY UNCERTAINTY (International Economic Review, (2022), 63, 2, (549-569), 10.1111/iere.12547)', International Economic Review, 64, pp. 871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.12629
,2023, 'Drain the Swamp: A Theory of Anti-Elite Populism', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4364830
,2022, 'Political Capital', Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 38, pp. 632 - 674, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewab027
,2022, 'OPTIMAL CHECKS AND BALANCES UNDER POLICY UNCERTAINTY', International Economic Review, 63, pp. 549 - 569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.12547
,2021, 'From weber to kafka: Political instability and the overproduction of laws', American Economic Review, 111, pp. 2964 - 3003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20190672
,2020, 'Introduction to the special issue political games: Strategy, persuasion, and learning', Games, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/g11010010
,2019, 'INTIMIDATION: LINKING NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT', International Economic Review, 60, pp. 1589 - 1618, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.12398
,2019, 'Render unto Caesar: Taxes, charity, and political Islam', European Economic Review, 119, pp. 114 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.06.005
,2018, 'When to Drop a Bombshell', Review of Economic Studies, 85, pp. 2139 - 2172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx070
,2015, 'Euclidean fairness and efficiency', Economic Inquiry, 53, pp. 1689 - 1690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12193
,2015, 'Majority runoff elections: Strategic voting and Duverger's hypothesis', Theoretical Economics, 10, pp. 283 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/TE1642
,2015, 'The sound of silence: Political accountability and libel law', European Journal of Political Economy, 37, pp. 266 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2014.09.007
,2014, 'Book Review - Collective Action and Exchange: A Game Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson. Stanford UP (2013). 448 pp., $49.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780804770040 (paper)', Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, pp. 192 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2014.01.002
,2014, 'Pandering and electoral competition', Games and Economic Behavior, 84, pp. 163 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.01.006
,'Optimal Checks and Balances Under Policy Uncertainty', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3832572
,'Render Unto Caesar: Taxes, Charity, and Political Islam', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2801892
,Reports
2015, Timing Information Flows, 2015-16, http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/richardholden/assets/ghk_v23-aer.pdf
,Media
2019, Rate cuts might hurt, as well as help. What if this man didn’t need to do as much?, https://theconversation.com/rate-cuts-might-hurt-as-well-as-help-what-if-this-man-didnt-need-to-do-as-much-119378
,2019, Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster, https://theconversation.com/our-economic-model-looks-broken-but-trying-to-fix-it-could-be-a-disaster-118397
,2018, QuItaly is Now a Real Possibility, https://www.afr.com/news/economy/quitaly-is-now-a-real-possibility-with-new-italian-coalition-government-20180520-h10aoy
,2018, The many ways Australia isn’t as pro-trade as we claim, https://theconversation.com/the-many-ways-australia-isnt-as-pro-trade-as-we-claim-94653
,2018, Can Australia avoid Europe’s populist fate?
,2017, Labor Should Take Heed
,2016, Voting Islamist: It's the economy, stupid, https://voxeu.org/article/voting-islamist-it-s-economy-stupid
,Preprints
Intimidation: Linking Negotiation and Conflict, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2593620
,Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3704156
,Majority Runoff Elections: Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2326258
,Pandering, Faith, and Electoral Competition, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2028741
,Timing Information Flows, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2636122
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