Selected Publications

"A generalization of Hamilton´s rule - Love others how much?", with Ingela Alger, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2012

"A scent of lemon-seller meets buyer with a noisy quality observation", with Mark Voorneveld, Games, 2011

"Kinship, incentives and evolution", with Ingela Alger, American Economic Review 100, 1725-1758, 2010

"Multiple solutions under quasi-exponential discounting", with Nicolas Vieille, Economic Theory 39, 513-526, 2009

"Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism", with Ingela Alger, in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur (eds) Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Oxford University Press, 178-201, 2009

"Language, meaning and games - A model of communication, coordination and evolution", with Stefano Demichelis, American Economic Review 98:4, 1292-1311, 2008.

"Long-run price competition", with Prajit Dutta and Alexander Matros, RAND Journal of Economics 38 (2), 291-313, 2007.

"Political Polarization", with Avinash Dixit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (18), 7351-7356, 2007.

"Better may be worse: some monotonicity results and paradoxes in discrete choice under uncertainty " with Lars-Goran Mattsson, Mark Voorneveld, Theory and Decision 63 (2), 121-151, 2007.

"Natural selection and social preferences", with Marcus Salomonsson, Journal of Theoretical Biology 239, 79-92, 2006.

"Discounting and altruism to future decision-makers", with Maria Saez-Marti, Journal of Economic Theory 122, 254-266, 2005.

"Testing game theory", in Steffen Huck (ed.) Advances in Understanding Strategic Behaviour: Game Theory, Experiments and Bounded Rationality. Essays in Honour of Werner Güth. Palgrave MacMillan, 85-104, 2004.

"Social norms and welfare state dynamics", with Assar Lindbeck and Sten Nyberg, Journal of the European Economic Association 1, Papers and Proceedings, 533-542, 2003.

"Deterministic approximation of stochastic evolution in games", with Michel Benaïm, Econometrica 71 (3), 873-903, 2003.

"Punctuality - a cultural trait as an equilibrium" with Kaushik Basu, in R. Arnott et al. (eds.), Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, MIT Press, Cambridge USA, 2003.

"Evolution in games with endogenous mistake probabilities", with Eric van Damme, Journal of Economic Theory 106 (2), 296-315, 2002.

"Probabilistic choice and procedurally bounded rationality", with Lars-Göran Mattsson, Games and Economic Behavior 41, 61-78, 2002.

"Neutrally stable outcomes in cheap-talk coordination games", with Abhijit Banerjee, Games and Economic Behavior 32, 1-24, 2000.

"Internal efficiency and external conditions". In Maskin E. and Simonovitz A. (eds.), Planning, Shortage and Transformation - Essays in Honor of Janos Kornai. Cambridge (USA): MIT Press, 2000.

"Clever agents in Young's evolutionary bargaining model", with Maria Saez-Marti, Journal of Economic Theory 86, 268-279, 1999.

"Social norms and economic incentives in the welfare state", with Assar Lindbeck and Sten Nyberg, Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, 1-35, 1999.

"Nash equilibrium and evolution by imitation" with J. Björnerstedt, in K. Arrow et al. (eds.), The Rational Foundations of Economic Behaviour, London: Macmillan, 155-171, 1996.

"Evolutionary selection against dominated strategies", with Josef Hofbauer, Journal of Economic Theory 71(2), 558-573, 1996.

"Evolutionary selection and rational behavior", with Abhijit Banerjee, in Alan Kirman and Mark Salmon (eds.), Learning and Rationality in Economics, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 343-363, 1995.

"Does neutral stability imply Lyapunov stability?", with Immanuel M. Bomze, Games and Economic Behavior 11, 173-192, 1995.

"Evolutionary selection in normal-form games", with Klaus Ritzberger, Econometrica 63, 1371-1399, 1995.

Evolutionary Game Theory. Cambridge (USA): MIT Press, 1995.

"A model of political equilibrium in representative democracy", with Assar Lindbeck, Journal of Public Economics 51, 195-209, 1993.

"On self-enforcement in extensive-form games", Games and Economic Behavior 4, 450-462, 1992.

"Strategy subsets closed under rational behavior", with Kaushik Basu, Economics Letters 36, 141-146, 1991.

"Altruism and time consistency - the economics of fait accompli", with Assar Lindbeck, Journal of Political Economy 96, 1165-1182, 1988.

"Constrained pareto-optimal taxation of labour and capital incomes", with Lars-Gunnar Svensson, Journal of Public Economics 34, 355-366, 1987.

"Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition", with Assar Lindbeck, Public Choice 52, 273-297, 1987.

"Discounted-value representations of temporal preferences", Mathematics of Operations Research 10, 244-250, 1985.

"A minimum information principle - theory and practice", with Folke Snickars, Regional Science and Urban Economics 7, 1977.