Stergios Skaperdas
Professor of Economics
Clifford S. Heinz Chair
Director, Center for
Global Peace and Conflict Studies
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
1-949-824-4167
email: sskaperd at uci.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Short Bio
Garfinkel, Michelle R. and Skaperdas, Stergios, (eds) THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE ECONOMICS OF
PEACE AND CONFLICT, 2012
(Published
version)
ON THE EUROZONE AND GREECE
RECENT PAPERS
Sambanis,
Nicholas, Skaperdas, Stergios and Wohlforth, William, "External Intervention, Identity,
and
Civil War," January 2017.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, "Contested Political
Persuasion,"
forthcoming in R. Congleton, B. Grofman, adn S. Voight (eds), Oxford Handbook of Public Choice.
Skaperdas, Stergios, Toukan, Amjad and Vaidya, Samarth, "Difference-form
Persuasion
Contests,"
Journal of Public Economic Theory,
2016.
Supplementary
Appendix
Skaperdas,
Stergios, "Myths
and
Self-Deceptions
about
the Greek Debt Crisis", Revue
d'économie politique,
December, 2015.
Sambanis,
Nicholas, Skaperdas, Stergios and Wohlforth, William, "Nation-Building
through
War,"
American
Political Science Review, 2015.
Garfinkel, Michelle R.,
McBride, Michael, and Skaperdas, Stergios, "Trade
and Insecure Resources,"
Journal
of International Economics, 2015.
Review of Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy unbound: why self-governance works
better than your think (Cambridge Univ. Press) in Public
Choice, 2015.
McBride, Michael and Skaperdas, Stergios, "Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the
Future," Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 75-89.
Skaperdas,
Stergios,
“Proprietary
Public
Finance:
Its Emergence and Evolution out of Anarchy,” in
Dominguez-Vazquez
J.
and
Winer
S.
(eds),
Coercion and Social Welfare in
Public Finance: Economic and
Political Dimensions, 2014, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Evia,
Jose
Luis,
Roberto
Laserna
and
Stergios
Skaperdas,
“Sociopolitical
Conflict
and
Economic Performance in Bolivia,” in
Warneryd, K (ed.), The Economics of
Conflict: Theory and Empirical Evidence,
2014, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jia, Hao, Skaperdas, Stergios, and Vaidya,
Samarth, "Contest
Functions:
Theoretical
Foundations
and
Issues in Estimation," International
Journal
of
Industrial
Organization, 2013.
Garfinkel, Michelle R.,
McBride, Michael, and Skaperdas, Stergios, "Governance
and Norms as Determinants
of Arming," Revue
d'économie politique,
2012, 122(2), 197-212
"Seven
Myths
about
the
Greek
Debt Crisis," October 28, 2011, UC Irvine
Economics Working Paper; Greek
version
Jia, Hao and Skaperdas, Stergios, "Technologies
of
Conflict," published in the Oxford
Handbook
of
the
Economics
of
Peace
and
Conflict, 2012.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Trade in the Shadow of Power,"
published in the Oxford
Handbook of the
Economics of Peace and Conflict, 2012.
Konrad, Kai A. and Skaperdas, Stergios, "The Market for
Protection and the Origin of the State," Economic
Theory, 2012.
McBride, Michael, Gary Milante and Stergios Skaperdas, "Peace and War with Endogenous
State Capacity," Journal
of
Conflict
Resolution, 2011.
Skaperdas, Stergios, "The
Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence," Economics
of Governance, 2011.
Skaperdas, Stergios and Samarth Vaidya, "Persuasion as a
Contest," Economic
Theory, 2012.
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Insecurity:
Reviewing
Some
Basic
Issues," published in Hess, G.D. (ed.) Guns and Butter:
Garfinkel, Michelle R., Skaperdas, Stergios, and
Syropoulos,
Constantinos, "Globalization
and
Domestic
Conflict," Journal
of International Economics, December 2008
[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).
SELECTED PUBLISHED PAPERS:
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, TurningCitizens
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, Insecure 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.
Skaperdas, Stergios, "Contest
Success Functions," Economic
Theory, February 1996, 7, 283-290.
Skaperdas,
Stergios and Li, Gan, Risk
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, Gangs
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, Conflict
and
Attitudes
Toward
Risk,
American Economic Review, Papers
and Proceedings, May 1991, 81 (2), 116-20.
(Requires jstor access.)
MISCELLANEOUS
Slides from "The Great Recession:
How Did it Happen?" (First week of Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute course; October 11, 2010)
Impressions from Rwanda (June 2009)
Thoughts
on the Economy (September 16, 2007)
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