Papers

Papers under current review:

• Endogenous Information Acquisition in Coordination Games by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace.  PDF Download.  Under revision for invited resubmission to the Review of Economic Studies.
• On the Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt.  PDF Download.  In submission.
• “On the Sources and Value of Information: Public Announcements and Macroeconomic Performance” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace. PDF Download. In submission.

Journal articles:

• “The Declining Talent Pool of Government” by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt. PDF Download. Forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science.
• “Evolution, Teamwork, and Collective Action: Production Targets in the Private Provision of Public Good” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Economic Journal 119(534), pp. 61-90, January 2009. PDF Download.
• “The Qualities of Leadership: Direction, Communication, and Obfuscation” by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt, American Political Science Review 102(3), pp. 351–368, August 2008. PDF Download.
• “When Does One Bad Apple Spoil the Barrel? An Evolutionary Analysis of Collective Action” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Review of Economic Studies 75(2), pp. 499-527, March 2008. PDF Download.
• “An Evolutionary Analysis of the Volunteer’s Dilemma” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Games and Economic Behavior 62(1), pp. 67-76, January 2008. PDF Download.
• “Leading the Party: Coordination, Direction, and Communication” by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt, American Political Science Review 101(4), pp. 825–843, November 2007. PDF Download.
• “On the Theory of Strategic Voting” by David P Myatt, Review of Economic Studies74(1), pp. 255-281, 2007. PDF Download.
• “Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in the Cabinet” by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt,American Political Science Review 101(1), pp. 63-77, February 2007. PDF Download.
• “Multiproduct Cournot Oligopoly” by Justin P Johnson and David P Myatt, RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn 2006. PDF Download.
• “On the Simple Economics of Advertising, Marketing, and Product Design” by Justin P Johnson and David P Myatt, American Economic Review, 2006. PDF Download.
• “Adaptive Play by Idiosyncratic Agents” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Games and Economic Behavior, 48(1), pp 124-138, 2004. PDF Download.
• “Multiproduct Quality Competition: Fighting Brands and Product Line Pruning” by Justin P Johnson and David P Myatt, American Economic Review, 2003. PDF Download.
• “A Multinomial Probit Model of Stochastic Evolution” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Journal of Economic Theory, 113(2). pp 286-301. 2003. PDF Download.
• “Sophisticated Play by Idiosyncratic Agents” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace,Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 13(3), pp 319-345, 2003. PDF Download.
• “Tactical Coordination in Plurality Electoral Systems” by Stephen D Fisher and David P Myatt, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18(4), 2002. PDF Download.
• “Equilibrium Selection and Public Good Provision: The Development of Open Source Software” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18(4), pp 446-461, 2002. PDF Download.
• “The Assessment: Games and Coordination” by David P Myatt, Hyun S Shin, and Chris Wallace, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18(4), pp 397-417, 2002. PDF Download.

Book chapters:

• “Collective Action: Current Perspectives” by David P Myatt, in the second edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steve Durlauf and Larry Blume. PDF Dowload.
• “The Evolution of Teams” by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace, in Gold, N. (ed)Teamwork: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Chapter 4, pp. 78-101, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2005. PDF Download.

Oxford discussion papers:

• Discussion Papers by David P Myatt in the Discussion Paper Series, Department of Economics, Oxford University.