Research Interests

• Applied Theory
• Political Economy
• Public Economics
• Contract Theory
• Industrial Organization

Publications

• Electoral Accountability and Interdistrict Competition, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 10 (2018), 143-176.

• Party Discipline and Government Spending: Theory and Evidence with Marta Curto-Grau, Journal of Public Economics 164 (2018), 139-152.

• Electoral Competition under Costly Policy Implementation with Dimitrios Xefteris, Social Choice and Welfare 50 (2018), 721-739.

• Lobbying as a Guard against Extremism, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 17 (2017), 1-17.

• Non-Monotonic Group-Size Effect in Repeated Provision of Public Goods with Chengsi Wang, European Economic Review 89 (2016), 116-128.

• Political Cronyism, Social Choice and Welfare 44 (2015), 473-492.

• The Welfare Effects of Location and Quality in Oligopoly with Luis C. Corchón, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Topics 13 (2013), 1143-1178.

• A Political Agency Model of Coattail Voting, Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011), 1652-1660.

• Computing Welfare Losses from Data under Imperfect Competition with Heterogeneous Goods with Luis C. Corchón, International Journal of Industrial Organization 27 (2009), 646-654.

Working Papers

• Incumbents' Performance and Political Polarization with Marina Dodlova.

• Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship with Maxim Ananyev, Dimitrios Xefteris, and Maria Petrova.

Media

• Podcast on Social Media and the Survival of Autocracies, 2019.