Davide Ticchi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Urbino. He
obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Pompeu Fabra in 2004. His recent
research interests focus on the political economy of institutional choice and of
inefficient state organizations, the role of the military on politics and the effects of
wars on political institutions and regime transitions. He has studied the effect of
uncertainty on investment.

Articles

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Persistence of Civil Wars (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming (2010)
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration....
 

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A Theory of Military Dictatorships (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2009)
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the...
 

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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), Journal of the European Economic Association (2009)
We present a theory of the emergence and persistence of inefficient states based on patronage...
 

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Endogenous Constitutions (with Andrea Vindigni), Economic Journal (2009)
We present a theory of the choice of alternative democratic constitutions, a majoritarian or a...
 

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An Economic Theory of Constitutional Choice (with Andrea Vindigni), Cesifo DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons (2007)
 

Unpublished Papers

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War and Endogenous Democracy (with Andrea Vindigni), IZA Discussion Paper No. 3397, March 2008. (2008)
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century...
 

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On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West (with Andrea Vindigni), Princeton University, Research Program in Political Economy, Working Paper, 2006. (2006)
The revised version of this paper has a new title: "War and Endogenous Democracy"