Career
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Science from Caltech in 1981. He has authored influential papers in the fields of political economy ("Voter Participation and Strategic Uncertainty" with Howard Rosenthal, APSR 1985), game theory ("Quantal Response Equilibria in Normal Form Games" with Richard McKelvey, GEB 1995), implementation ("Nash Implementation Using Undominated Strategies" with South Srivastava, Econometrica 1991), and experimental economics ("An Experimental Study of the Centipede Game" with R McKelvey, Econometrica 1992).