On leave from: International
Monetary Fund 700 19th
Street Washington,
DC 20431
Felix Várdy
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
Tel: +1-202-390-4656
Email: fvardy@haas.berkeley.edu
CV in pdf
Journal Articles:
Negative Vote Buying and the Secret Ballot, with John Morgan, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, forthcoming.
On the Buyability of Voting Bodies, with John Morgan, Journal of Theoretical Politics Vol. 23(2), pp. 260-287, April 2011.
Diversity in the Workplace, with John Morgan, American Economic Review Vol. 99(1), pp. 472-485, March 2009.
Reforming the IMF, with John Morgan, The Economists' Voice Vol. 4(4), October 2007.
The Value of Commitment in Contests and Tournaments when Observation is Costly, with John Morgan, Games and Economic Behavior Vol. 60(2), pp. 326-338, August 2007.
The Internal Job Market of the IMFs Economist Program, with Greg Barron, IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 52(3), pp. 410-429, December 2005.
Stackelberg Leader Games with Observation Costs, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 49(2), pp.374-400, November 2004.
An Experimental Study of Commitment and Observability in Stackelberg Games, with John Morgan, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 49(2), pp. 401-423, November 2004.
Can Negotiations Prevent Fish Wars?, with Harold Houba and Koos Sneek, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 24(8), pp. 1265-1280, July 2000.
Working Papers:
Passion over Reason? Mixed Motives and the Optimal Size of Voting Bodies, with John Morgan, July 2011. (R&R at Journal of Political Economy.)
The Fragility of Commitment, with John Morgan, March 2012. (R&R at Management Science.)
On the Merits of Meritocracy, with John Morgan and Dana Sisak, April 2012. (Proofs in separate document.)
Cheap Money and Risk Taking: Opacity versus Underlying Risk, with Burkhard Drees and Bernhard Eckwert, March 2011.
Institutional Traps, February 2010.
Demand for Slant: How Abstention Shapes Voters' Choice of News Media, with Santiago Oliveros, in progress.
Unfair and Unbalanced: In Praise of Media Bias, with Santiago Oliveros, in progress.
Information and the Dispersion of Conditional Expectations, with Burkhard Drees and Bernhard Eckwert, in progress.