Political Economy

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An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition (with Josep Colomer), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2011)

This paper presents a model of electoral competition focusing on the formation of the public...

 

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Immigration Policy with Partisan Parties (with Angel Solano), Journal of Public Economics (2010)

This paper analyzes the political economy of immigration when the salient electoral issue is the...

 

Mapas de Ayuda para América Latina y el Caribe, América Latina y el Caribe -Mapa Estratégico para la Cooperación (2010)

How should we draw the optimal map for the allocation of international aid? Should it...

 

Why do Parties Exclude Important Issues from their Electoral Campaigns? (with Josep M. Colomer), The Political Economy of Democracy (2009)
 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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,...

 

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Abstention and Political Competition, Review of Economic Design (2000)

The classical literature on spatial majority voting postulates that all citizens vote. The Median Voter...

 

Climate Change

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A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), Journal of Public Economics (2011)

Climate science indicates that climate stabilization requires low GHG emissions. Is this consistent with nondecreasing...

 

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Different Concepts of Sustainability and International Arrangements (with John Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre) (2011)
 

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Intergenerational Justice when Future Worlds are Uncertain (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2010)

Let there be a positive (exogenous) probability that, at each date, the human species will...

 

Welfare

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A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), Journal of Public Economics (2011)

Climate science indicates that climate stabilization requires low GHG emissions. Is this consistent with nondecreasing...

 

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Different Concepts of Sustainability and International Arrangements (with John Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre) (2011)
 

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Intergenerational Justice when Future Worlds are Uncertain (with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2010)

Let there be a positive (exogenous) probability that, at each date, the human species will...

 

Mapas de Ayuda para América Latina y el Caribe, América Latina y el Caribe -Mapa Estratégico para la Cooperación (2010)

How should we draw the optimal map for the allocation of international aid? Should it...

 

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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...

 

Voting

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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...

 

Experimental Economics

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Experimentos en Economía Política, Economía Experimental y del Comportamiento (2011)