Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
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Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |
| 2009- Present | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University |
| Fall 2011 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University |
| 2006-2009 | Ph.D. in Economics, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Spring 2008 | Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Program on Political Institutions, Harris School, University of Chicago |
| 2004-2006 | Master Degree in Economics, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2000-2004 | Licence Degree in Economics, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
My main fields of interest are political economy, microeconomics, and public economics.
1. A Theory of Strategic Voting in Runoff Elections, American Economic Review, forthcoming [last working paper version] (also see IED Discussion Paper 210)
2. One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation (with Micael Castanheira), Econometrica, 80(1), 2012, pp. 43-87 [last working paper version] (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 6695)
3. Redistributing Income under Fiscal Vertical Imbalance (with Marjorie Gassner and Vincenzo Verardi), European Journal of Political Economy, 24(2), 2008, pp. 317-328 [last working paper version]
1. The Condorcet-Duverger Trade-Off: Swing Voters and Voting Equilibria (with Micael Castanheira), in Aragonés, E., Beviá, C., Llavador, H., Schofield, N., Eds., The Political Economy of Democracy, 2009, fundacion BBVA, Spain
2. Le fédéralisme budgétaire, in Valenduc, C., Ed., L’impôt et la politique fiscale en Belgique, 2011, Collection Economie, Brussels : Editions de l’ULB
1. Good Rankings are Bad: Why Reliable Rankings can Hurt Consumers (with Georg Kirchsteiger), [September 2012 version] (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 8702, and IED Discussion Paper 222)
2. Majority Runoff Elections: Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis (with Gabriele Gratton) [April 2013 version] [Technical Appendix 1] [Technical Appendix 2] (also see IED Discussion Paper 241)
3. Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment (with Micael Castanheira and Aniol Llorente-Saguer) [January 2013] (also see IED Discussion Paper 242)
3. Guns and Votes (with Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi) [First Draft - May 2013]
1. Get Rid of Unanimity: the Superiority of Majority Rule with Veto Power (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Frederic Malherbe)
2. Strategic Voting in Instant-Runoff Elections (with Micael Castanheira and Gabriele Gratton)
4. Redistribution and Targeted Transfers (with Matteo Bobba)