{"id":24,"date":"2021-09-13T19:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:59:58","slug":"working-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/working-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Working papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Completed papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/publications\/dp21647\">Morals and the Political Economy of Corrective Taxes<\/a> (with Felix Bierbrauer, Marten Ritterrath and Georg Weizs\u00e4cker)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w35276\">The AGI Race and Existential Risk<\/a> (with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Wioletta Dziuda)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2148\/2025\/05\/populism_20250513.pdf\">Political Accountability with Outsiders<\/a> (with Emmanuelle Auriol and Nicolas Bonneton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2148\/2025\/05\/competitively_irresponsible_20250421.pdf\">Competitive development of dangerous technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2148\/2023\/02\/redistricting_20221228.pdf\">Competitive fair redistricting<\/a> (together with Felix Bierbrauer)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/polborn\/32\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Core Supporters and Long-Term Party Switchers in U.S. Presidential Elections<\/a> (together with Stefan Krasa)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/works.bepress.com\/polborn\/33\/\">Insecure property rights and the missing middle<\/a> (together with Aram Grigoryan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2148\/2025\/05\/powerconsolidation.pdf\">Power Consolidation<\/a> (with Tigran Polborn)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work in progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Populism, stigma and political correctness (with Justin Fox)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Humor (?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=781624\">Calibrating the World and the World of Calibration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed papers Morals and the Political Economy of Corrective Taxes (with Felix Bierbrauer, Marten Ritterrath and Georg Weizs\u00e4cker) The AGI Race and Existential Risk (with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Wioletta Dziuda) Political Accountability with Outsiders (with Emmanuelle Auriol and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/working-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5636,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/polborn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}