Faculty
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (2012-13)
CHAIR:
Adam Meirowitz, Politics
Gene Grossman
, Economics and WWS John Londregan, Politics and WWS Nolan McCarty, Politics and WWS Thomas Romer, Politics and WWS ASSOCIATED FACULTY Douglas Arnold, Politics and WWS Roland Benabou, Economics and WWS Carles Boix, Politics and WWS Charles Cameron, Politics and WWS Brandice Canes-Wrone, Politics and WWSAnne Case
, Economics and WWSSylvain Chassang
, Economics and WWS Avinash Dixit, EconomicsHenry Farber
, EconomicsThomas Fujiwara
, EconomicsMikhail Golosov
, EconomicsJoanne Gowa
, PoliticsAlexander Hirsch
, Politics and WWSMatias Iaryczower
, PoliticsPaul Krugman
, Economics and WWSDavid Lee
, Economics and WWSAtif Mian
, Economics and WWS Helen Milner, Politics and WWSStephen Morris
, EconomicsWolfgang Pesendorfer
, EconomicsGrigore Pop-Eleches
, Politics and WWS Kristopher Ramsay, PoliticsLeonard Wantchekon
, Politics
Avinash Dixit
Research Interests: State and non-state institutions of economic governance; organizations and incentives in public-sector agencies.
Selected Publications:
Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance, Princeton University Press, 2004.
"Governance Institutions and Economic Activity," American Economic Review, 2009.
"Democracy, Autocracy, and Bureaucracy," Journal of Globalization and Development, 2010
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Selected Publications:
Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, "Protection for Sale," American Economic Review, vol. 84, no.4, September, 1994.
Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, Special Interest Politics, MIT Press, 2001.
Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, Interest Groups and Trade Policy, Princeton University Press, 2002.
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Selected Publications:
"Economic Incentives and Political Institutions: Spending and Voting in School Budget Referenda" (with Howard Rosenthal and Vincent Munley), Journal of Public Economics, October 1992.
"An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of PAC Contributions" (with James Snyder), American Journal of Political Science, August 1994.
"Interjurisdictional Sorting and Majority Rule: An Empirical Analysis" (with Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg), Econometrica, November 2001.
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Douglas Arnold
Research Interests: Legislative politics,
representation, economic policymaking, social insurance.
Selected Publications:
R. Douglas Arnold, Congress and the Bureaucracy: A Theory of Influence, Yale University Press, 1979.
R. Douglas Arnold, The Logic of Congressional Action, Yale University Press, 1990.
R. Douglas Arnold, Michael Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell, eds., Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics, Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
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Go back to top of page Research Interests: Economic theory, political economy, contract theory.
Selected Publications:
"The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory" (with Rebecca Morton and Thomas Palfrey, Review of Economic Studies, 2010.
"A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt" (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review, 2008.
"Efficiency, Equity and Timing in Voting Mechanisms" (with Rebecca Morton and Thomas Palfrey), American Political Science Review, 2007.
"Inefficiency in Legislative Policy-Making: A Dynamic Analysis" (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review, 2007.
"Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk", Econometrica, 2002.
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Research Interests: Inequality, redistributive policies, and
growth; education and school finance; social mobility; cities, economic
geography; psychology and economics Selected Publications: "Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social
Contract," American Economic Review, March 2000. "Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The POUM Hypothesis"
(with Efe Ok), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001. "Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics" (with Jean Tirole), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006.
"Ideology," Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2008.
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Research Interests: State formation; democratization; political
representation; political economy of growth Selected Publications: Democracy and Redistribution, Cambridge U. Press, 2003.
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Co-editor with Susan Stokes. Oxford U. Press, 2007. "Electoral Markets, Party Strategies and Proportional Representation," American Political Science Review, May 2010. "Democracy, Development and the International System," American Political Science Review, November 2011
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Research Interests:
Wage dynamics and worker mobility; dispute
resolution (arbitration, litigation, strikes, military disputes, war);
empirical analysis of elections and voting; jury behavior; political
economy of public policy in the labor market.
Selected Publications:
"Learning and Wage Dynamics" (with R. Gibbons), Quarterly Journal
of Economics, November 1996.
"Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic
Peace" (with J. Gowa), Journal of Politics, 1997.
"The Litigious Plaintiff Hypothesis: Case Selection and Resolution"
(with T. Eisenberg), Rand Journal of Economics, 1997.
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Research Interests:
Voting and elections; the role of political constraints on policy decisions in developing countries; trust and social capital
Selected Publications:
"Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil", working paper 2010.
"A Regression Discontinuity Test of Strategic Voting and Duverger's Law", working paper 2010.
"Competition Builds Trust" (with Patrick Francois and Tanguy van Ypersele),working paper 2011.
Go back to top of page Research Interests: Positive political theory; committees; electoral competition; ideology and common values Selected Publications: "The Value of Information in the Court: Get it Right, Get it Tight", with Matthew Shum. Caltech SS Working Paper No. 1313
"On the Nature of Competition in Alternative Electoral Systems", with Andrea Mattozzi. Caltech SS Working Paper No. 1285
"Contestable Leadership: Party Leaders as Principals and Agents", Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008. Research Interests: International trade, market structure
and trade policy, the self-organizing economy, globalization and the inequality
of nations Selected Publications: The Self-Organizing Economy, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. "It's Baack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap,"
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998.
The Spatial Economy (with M. Fujita and A. Venables), MIT
Press, 1999.
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Research Interests: Empirical analysis of elections; electoral competition; analysis of unions Selected Publications:
"Economic Impacts of New Unionization on U.S. Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004.
"Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004.
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Research Interests: Political economy, comparative politics,
political methodology, formal theory Selected Publications: "Estimating Legislators' Preferred Points," Political
Analysis, 2000. "Political Power and the Credibility of Government Debt" (with
Avinash Dixit), Journal of Economic Theory, 2000. Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile, Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Selected Publications: "Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries" (with the assistance of Keiko Kubota), International Organization, Winter 2005. "Partisanship, Trade Policy and Globalization: Is there a Left-Right Party Divide on Trade Policy?" (with Benjamin Judkins), International Studies Quarterly, March 2004. "Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements" (with Edward Mansfield and B. Peter Rosendorff), International Organization, Summer 2002.
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Stephen Morris
Research Interests: Economic theory; the role of information in public policy Selected Publications: "On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests" (with Stephen Coate), Journal of Political Economy, 1995. "Policy Persistence" (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review 1999. "Political Correctness," Journal of Political Economy, 2001.
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Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Research Interests: Economic theory; information in economics and politics Selected Publications: "Strategic Redistricting" (with Faruk Gul), American Economic Review, 2010. "Partisan Politics and Aggregation Failure with Ignorant Voters" (with Faruk Gul), Journal of Economic Theory, 2009. "The War of Information" (with Faruk Gul), working paper. Selected Publications:
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"Mechanism Design Goes to War" (with M. Fey), Review of Economic Design , 2009.
"When is Shuttle Diplomacy Worth the Commute?" (with M. Fey), World Politics, 2010.
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