Peter Coughlin

Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3482
Email: coughlin@econ.umd.edu

Peter Coughlin, Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1976. Prior to becoming a member of the Maryland faculty in 1982, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Carnegie Mellon Universities. The Association for Public Policy and Management has given him its James L. Barr award in Public Economics. He has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research interests are in the areas of social choice, voting theory and applied game theory. Publications include: "Balanced Budget Redistribution as the Outcome of Political Competition: A Comment, Public Choice, 1991; "Pure Strategy Equilibria in a Class of Systems Defense Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 1992; Probabilistic Voting Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
 

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