I am associate professor of economics at Melbourne Business School. My research areas are political economics and microeconomics, primarily applying information economics, game theory, and social choice theory to questions of institutional and organizational design, communication and hierarchy. I have previously taught microeconomics and political economy at the University of Chicago, at Stanford Graduate School of Business and at Kellogg School of Management. An important interest of mine is also the application of political economy theory to the practice of business strategy in the non-market environment. I received my PhD in political economy and government at Harvard and my Masters in economics at Zurich University. I am an associate member at the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at Kellogg and at the Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen.
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Matching and Economic Design, Australian Economic Review (2012)
This article presents a brief survey of two-sided matching. We introduce the reader to the...
Strong Firms Lobby, Weak Firms Bribe: A Survey-Based Analysis of the Demand for Influence and Corruption, SSRN (2009)
We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political...
Strategic Appointments (with Anthony Bertelli), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2007)
This article develops an institutional spatial theory of presidential appointments to administrative agencies that falls...
Lobbying Bureaucrats (with Morten Bennedsen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2006)
We study how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it...
Informational Lobbying and Political Contributions (with Morten Bennedsen), Journal of Public Economics (2006)
Interest groups can potentially influence political decision-makers by offering contributions and by providing relevant information...