Articles
The Informational Value of Incumbency (with Carmen Bevia), Journal of Public Economic Theory (2009)
This paper exploits the informational value of incumbency: incumbency confers voters information about governing politicians...
Voting with Preferences over Margins of Victory, Mathematical Social Science (2008)
This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences...
Electoral platforms, implemented policies and abstention, Social Choice and Welfare (2006)
Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the...
Partisan competition, growth and the franchise (with Robert J. Oxoby), The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005)
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid economic growth and development. Over this period,...
An equal-opportunity approach to the allocation of international aid (with John E. Roemer), Journal of Development Economics (2001)
How should international aid be distributed? The most common view is according to some utilitarian...
Contributions to Books
Why do Parties Exclude Important Issues from their Electoral Campaigns? (with Josep M. Colomer), The Political Economy of Democracy (2009)
Unpublished Papers
A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), UPF Working Paper no.1110 (2010)
Climate science indicates that climate stabilization requires low GHG emissions. Is this consistent with nondecreasing...
Immigration Policy with Partisan Parties (with Angel Solano), UPF Working Paper no.1169 (2009)
This paper analyzes the political economy of immigration when the salient electoral issue is the...
Intergenerational Justice when Future Worlds are Uncertain (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), UPF Working Paper no.1178 (2009)
Let there be a positive (exogenous) probability that, at each date, the human species will...
An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition (with Josep Colomer), UPF Working Paper 1070 & CREA Working Paper 331 (2008)
This paper presents a model of electoral competition focusing on the formation of the public...