Davide Ticchi

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Professor of Economics
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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), Journal of the European Economic Association (2011)

We present a theory of the emergence and persistence of inefficient states based on patronage...

Persistence of Civil Wars (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), Journal of the European Economic Association (2010)

A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration....

Endogenous Constitutions (with Andrea Vindigni), Economic Journal (2010)

We present a theory of the choice of alternative democratic constitutions, a majoritarian or a...

A Theory of Military Dictatorships (with Daron Acemoglu and Andrea Vindigni), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2010)

We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the...

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

Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution, and the Aggregate Investment-Uncertainty Relationship (with Enrico Saltari), Journal of Monetary Economics (2007)

We analyze the role of risk aversion and intertemporal substitution in a simple dynamic general...

Risk-Aversion and the Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: A Comment (with Enrico Saltari), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2005)

This paper shows that the solution of Nakamura’s [Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 38...

Road pricing as a citizen-candidate game (with Edoardo Marcucci and Marco Marini), European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2005)

We construct a political economy model to analyze the political acceptability of road pricing policies....

Unpublished Papers

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...

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"