Recent antiregime protests throughout the world have been publicized, and arguably
facilitated, by social media and other communication technologies. I develop formal models …

Canonical theories of elections assume that rules determining the winner will be followed,
which necessitates separate models for democratic and nondemocratic elections. To …

How can individuals exchange information to learn from each other despite their privacy
needs and security concerns? For example, consider individuals deliberating a contentious …

Global games form a subclass of games with incomplete information, where a set of agents
decide actions against a regime with an underlying fundamental θ representing its power …

We study the role of local information channels in enabling coordination among strategic
agents. Building on the standard finite-player global games framework, we show that the set …

We experimentally investigate the impact of strategic uncertainty and complementarity on
leader and follower behavior using the model of Farrell and Saloner (1985). At the core of …

We study decision making by networked entities and the interplay between networks and
outcomes under two different contexts: in the first part of the thesis, we study how strategic …

It is known that global games with noisy sharing of information do not admit a certain type of
threshold policies [1]. Motivated by this result, we investigate the existence of threshold-type …