Avinash Dixit

Princeton University - Department of Economics

Professor

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Poschinger Str. 5

Munich, DE-81679

Germany

http://www.CESifo.de

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

27

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135

Scholarly Papers (27)

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'We Haven’t Got But One More Day': The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Dynamic Chicken Game

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2019
Avinash Dixit, David McAdams and Susan Skeath
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Wellesley College - Department of Economics
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Brinkmanship, Dynamic chicken, Cuban missile crisis

Evaluating Recipes for Development Success

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3859
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Governance Indicators, National Governance, Children and Youth, Economic Theory & Research, Economic Policy, Institutions and Governance

Evaluating Recipes for Development Success

The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 131-157, 2007
Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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O43, O17, O20, P30, P48

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Fiscal Discretion Destroys Monetary Commitment

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Jul 2000
Avinash Dixit and Luisa Lambertini
Princeton University - Department of Economics and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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On the Role of Good Faith in Insurance Contracting

Princeton University Economic Theory Working Paper No. 02S2
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Mar 2002
Avinash Dixit and Pierre M. Picard
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA)
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On Modes of Economic Governance

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2001
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Symbiosis of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union

Journal of International Economics, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2003
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Feb 2000
Avinash Dixit and Luisa Lambertini
Princeton University - Department of Economics and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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Equilibrium Contracts for the Central Bank of a Monetary Union

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Feb 2001
Avinash Dixit and Henrik Jensen
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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Monetary Union, Incentive Contracts, Common Agency

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Market Valuation of Illiquid Debt and Implications for Conflicts Among Creditors

IMF Working Paper No. 90/88
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Leonardo Bartolini and Avinash Dixit
affiliation not provided to SSRN (deceased) and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6954
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, E-Business, Corruption & Anticorruption Law, Crime and Society, Social Accountability

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Too Small to Regulate

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6860
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu and Avinash Dixit
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Regulatory Regimes, Markets and Market Access, Water and Industry, Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, Public Sector Regulation

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Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment

NBER Working Paper No. w5227
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2022
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment

Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 15-95
Posted: 24 Aug 1998
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Irreversible Investment with Uncertainty and Scale Economies

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. TE240
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Interactions of Commitment and Discretion in Monetary and Fiscal Policies

American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 5, 2003
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2010
Luisa Lambertini and Avinash Dixit
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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E61, E63

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A Markup Interpretation of Optimal Rules for Irreversible Investment

NBER Working Paper No. w5971
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Avinash Dixit, Robert S. Pindyck and Sigbjorn Sodal
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Agder University College
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The Optimal Mix of Inflationary Finance and Commodity Taxation with Collection Lags

IMF Working Paper No. 90/87
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Expandability, Reversibility, and Optimal Capacity Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w6373
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2022
Avinash Dixit and Robert S. Pindyck
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Trade and Protection with Multistage Production

NBER Working Paper No. w0794
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2022
Avinash Dixit and Gene M. Grossman
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Targeted Export Promotion with Several Oligopolistic Industries

NBER Working Paper No. w1344
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022
Avinash Dixit and Gene M. Grossman
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Comparing Alternative Policies Against Environmental Catastrophes

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11802
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Jan 2017
Timothy J. Besley and Avinash Dixit
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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catastrophic risk, climate change

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Paul Samuelson's Legacy

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4, pp. 1-31, 2012
Posted: 01 Sep 2012
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Security

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 3, pp. 191-213, 2011
Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Commitment versus Discretion in a Monetary Union

European Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 4-6, 2001
Posted: 14 Oct 2009
Luisa Lambertini and Avinash Dixit
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Monetary union, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy

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Trade Expansion and Contract Enforcement

Posted: 24 Nov 2003
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University - Department of Economics

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A Theory of Political Compromise

CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 1935
Posted: 29 Sep 1998
Avinash Dixit, Gene M. Grossman and Faruk Gul
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Ideology, Tactics, and Efficiency in Redistributive Politics

Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 98)
Posted: 31 May 1998
Avinash Dixit and John Londregan
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

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Ideology, Tactics, and Efficiency in Redistributive Politics

Center for Economic Studies Working Paper at University of Munich, Number 137
Posted: 01 May 1998
Avinash Dixit and John Londregan
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

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Does Voluntary Participation Undermine the Coase Theorem?

Center for Economic Studies Working Paper at University of Munich, Number 139
Posted: 19 Apr 1998
Avinash Dixit and Mancur Olson
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Maryland - Department of Economics

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Common Agency and Coordination: General Theory and Application to Tax Policy

CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 1436
Posted: 25 Sep 1996
Avinash Dixit, Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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