Laurent Bouton

Boston University
Department of Economics
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: +1 (617) 353 4140
Cell phone: +1 (617) 650 5693
E-mail: lbouton@bu.edu
		Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Academic Positions

Education

Research

My main fields of interest are political economy, microeconomics, and public economics.

Publications

1. One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation (with Micael Castanheira), Econometrica, 80(1), 2012, pp. 43-87 [Working Paper Version] (see also CEPR Discussion Paper 6695)

2. Redistributing Income under Fiscal Vertical Imbalance (with Marjorie Gassner and Vincenzo Verardi), European Journal of Political Economy, 24(2), 2008, pp. 317-328

3. 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

4. Le fédéralisme budgétaire, in Valenduc, C., Ed., L’impôt et la politique fiscale en Belgique, 2011, Collection Economie, Brussels : Editions de l’ULB

Working Papers

1. A Theory of Strategic Voting in Runoff Elections - R&R at the American Economic Review [updated version March 2010]

2. Good Rankings are Bad - Why Reliable Rankings can Hurt Consumers (with Georg Kirchsteiger) [updated version October 2011]

Work in Progress

1. Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: a Laboratory Experiment (with Micael Castanheira, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Jean-Benoit Pilet)

2. Runoff Elections: Sincere Voting, Push-Over and the Vote Against (with Gabriele Gratton)

3. Information Aggregation and Veto Power (with Frederic Malherbe)

4. Strategic Voting in Instant-Runoff Elections (with Micael Castanheira)

Teaching