4 papers
To Act or not to Act? Political competition in the presence of a threat
Arthur Fishman, Doron Klunover
We present a model of political competition in which an incumbent politician, may implement a costly policy to prevent a possible threat to, for example, national security or a nat…
Nice guys don't always finish last: succeeding in hierarchical organizations
Doron Klunover
What are the chances of an ethical individual rising through the ranks of a political party or a corporation in the presence of unethical peers? To answer this question, I consider…
A Model of Presidential Debates
Doron Klunover, John Morgan
Presidential debates are viewed as providing an important public good by revealing information on candidates to voters. We consider an endogenous model of presidential debates in w…
A note on contests with a constrained choice set of effort
Doron Klunover, John Morgan
We consider a symmetric two-player contest, in which the choice set of effort is constrained. We apply a fundamental property of the payoff function to show that, under standard as…