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Published and Unpublished Work Below is a list of my various research papers divided into four areas: public economics, noncooperative game theory, cooperative game theory and other topics.  Those with hyperlinks are available in Adobe PDF format. Public Economics "Convergence Theorems on the Core of a Public Goods Economy: Sufficient Conditions" Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 62, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 161-185. "Generalized Samuelson and Welfare Theorems for Nonsmooth Economies" with Dimitrios Diamantaras, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 59, 1996, pp. 137-152. "Anonymous Pricing in Public Goods Economies" with Myrna Wooders, in Topics in Public Economics, D. Pines, E. Sadka, and I. Zilcha, editors, Cambridge University Press, 1997pp. 89-120. "Taste-Homogeneity of Optimal Jurisdictions in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types and Endogenous Educational Investment Choices," with Myrna Wooders, Recherché Economiche, Vol. 50, 1996, pp. 367-87. "Fundamental Nonconvexities in Arrovian Markets and a Coasian Solution to the Problem of Externalities" with John Boyd III, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 72, 1997, pp. 388-407. "Equivalence of the Core and Competitive Equilibrium in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types" with Myrna Wooders, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 41, 1997 pp. 421-440. "Anonymous Lindahl Prices in a Tiebout Economy with Taste Types" John P. Conley and Myrna H. Wooders, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 31, 1998 pp.952-74. "Public Economic Theory" John P. Conley and Myrna H. Wooders, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 1, 1999 pp. 1-3. "Optimal and Equilibrium Jurisdiction Size in a Tiebout Economy with Spillovers" with Manfred Dix, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 46, 1999, pp. 215-229. "Tiebout Economies with Differential Genetic Types and Endogenously Chosen Crowding Characteristics" with Myrna Wooders, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 98, No. 2, 2001 pp. 261-294 "Endogenous Enfranchisement when Groups' Preferences are Conflicting" with Akram Temimi, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 109, No. 1, 2001, 79-102. "Intergenerational Spillovers, Decentralization and Durable Public Goods", 2001 "Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions: How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism" with Antonio Rangel, NBER working paper 8394, June 2001 "Migration-proof Tiebout Equilibrium: Existence and Asymptotic Efficiency" with Hideo Konishi, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 86 2002, 243-262. "Finite Decentralization in a Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types" with Stefani Smith, Social Choice and Welfare, 2003, vol. 20, pp 49-75. "Beneficial Inequality in the Provision of Municipal Services: Why Rich Neighborhoods should get Plowed First" with Manfred Dix, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, 2003 No. 4, pp. 731-745. "Coasian Equilibrium" with Stefani Smith, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 41, Issue 6, September 2005, Pages 687-704 "Hedonic Independence and the Taste-Homogeneity of Optimal Jurisdictions in Tiebout Economy with Crowding Types" with Myrna Wooders, Annals of Economics and Statistics July-Dec. 2004; Vol. (75-76): 197-219. "Coalitions and Clubs: Existence, Decentralization, and Optimality" with Stephanie Smith 2003, in Group Formation in Economics : Networks, Clubs, and Coalitions Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders, editors, Cambridge University Press, 2005 "The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies" with Edward Carwright and Myrna Wooders, 2005, in The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates / William A. Fischel, editor, Lincoln Lamd Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2006 "Memetics and Voting: How Nature Makes us Public Spirited" with Ali Toossi and Myrna Wooders, International Journal of Game Theory, December, 2006, Volume 35, Number 1.pp.71-90. "The Tiebout Hypothesis: On the Existence of Pareto Efficient Competitive Equilibria" with Nizar Allouch and Myrna Wooders, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Forthcoming. "Leadership and Coalition Formation: A Tiebout Approach to Understanding the Open-Source Software Movement", 2007 "Intergenerational Spillovers, Decentralization and Durable Public Goods" with Robert Driskill and Ping Wang 2007 "Public Goods, Bounded Attention Spans and Equilibrium in the Internet Economy" with Paul J. Healy, 2008 Noncooperative Game Theory "Implementing the Nash Extension Bargaining Solution for Non-Convex Problems" with Simon Wilkie, Economic Design, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995, pp. 205-216. "Cheap Play with No Regret" with Bhaskar Chakravorti, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1995, pp. 223-237. "On Uniquely Implementing Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma" with Bhaskar Chakravorti and Bart Taub, Economic Theory, Vol. 80, 1996, pp. 347-66. "On Uniquely Implementing Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Corrigendum" with Bhaskar Chakravorti and Bart Taub, Economic Theory, Vol. 9, 1997, pp. 377-8 "Economic Applications of Probabilistic Cheap Talk" with Bhaskar Chakravorti and Bart Taub, in Topics in Mathematical Economics and Game Theory: Essays in Honor of Robert Aumann, M. Wooders, editor, Fields Institute Communication, Toronto, pp. 153-170, 1999 "Probabilistic Cheap Talk" with Bhaskar Chakravorti and Bart Taub, Social Choice and Welfare, 2002, Vol. 19, pp. 281-294 "Bargaining efficiency and the repeated prisoners' dilemma", with Bhaskar Chakravorti, Economics Bulletin, 2004, Vol. 3 no. 3 pp. 1-8. "Endogenous networks" with Frank Page, 2008 "Endogenous Games, Multiculturalism and Assimilation" with William Neilson, 2008 "Endogenous Games and Equilibrium Adoption of Social Norms and Ethical Constraints" with William Neilson, 2008 Cooperative Game Theory "The Bargaining Problem without Convexity: Extending the Egalitarian and Kalai-Smorodinski Solutions" with Simon Wilkie, Economics Letters, Vol. 36, 1991, pp. 365-9. "An Extension of the Nash Bargaining Solution to Nonconvex Problems" with Simon Wilkie, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 13, 1996, pp. 26-38. "Reference Functions and Possibility Theorems for Cardinal Social Choice Theory" with Rich McLean and Simon Wilkie, Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 14, 1997, pp. 65-78. "Axiomatic Foundations for Compromise Theory: The Duality of Bargaining Theory and Multi-Objective Programming" with Rich McLean and Simon Wilkie, Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming. "Ordinal Egalitarian Solution for Finite Choice Sets" with Simon Wilkie, 2006 Other Topics "Speed of Convergence and Stopping Rules in an Iterative Planning Procedure for Nonconvex Economies" Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 17, 1993, pp. 737-767. "Optimal Sequencing of Credible Reforms with Uncertain Outcomes" with William Maloney, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 48, 1995, pp. 151-163. "Crime and Ethics" with Ping Wang, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol 60, No. 1, pp 107-123 "How Competition and Changes in Publication Rates Affect the Tenure Chances in the Economics Profession, and how they should" with Mario Crucini, Robert Driskill and Ali Sina Onder, 2007