The organizers of this session presumably knew what they were doing in inviting me to discuss these papers, but 1 am dubious. I doubt that it was because I have a reputation for discovering major flaws in the neoclassical model and thus would readily accept the arguments presented in these papers. My Chicago training and published work would suggest that hypothesis to be a little far-fetched, O...

The imposition of international economic sanctions is a strategic and often multilateral phenomenon of states attempting to coerce each other into altering their behavior by means of economic pain. The interlocking connections of states issuing sanctions and being sanctioned creates a network of interdependent relations and, we argue, the structure of dependencies endogenous to the network is a...

We present a corpus of spoken dialogues between students and an adaptive Wizard-of-Oz tutoring system, in which student uncertainty was manually annotated in real-time. We detail the corpus contents, including speech files, transcripts, annotations, and log files, and we discuss possible future uses by the computational linguistics community as a novel resource for studying naturally occurring ...

The voting arrangements used by creditors during debt restructuring are prespecified, often by statute. For example, U.S. law stipulates the use of a unanimous vote outside bankruptcy, but a supermajority vote in Chapter 11 bankrupcty. We analyze the effect of voting rules on the welfare of debtors and their creditors in restructuring negotiations. When creditors are close to rational and marke...