Research

Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout (with Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot, and Allison Stashko), NBER Working Paper 31442 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 18280) [December 2023]

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Small Campaign Donors (with Julia Cage, Edgard Dewitte, and Vincent Pons), NBER Working Paper 30050 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 17310) [May 2022, Online Appendix]

Public Information as a Source of Disagreement Among Shareholders (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Antonin Mace, Adam Meirowitz, Shaoting Pi, and Dimitrios Xefteris), NBER Working Paper 30757 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 17736) [June 2023]

A Theory of Small Campaign Contributions (with Micael Castanheira and Allan Drazen), NBER Working Paper 24413 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 12789) - Accepted at Economic Journal [January 2024]
Voting Rights, Agenda Control and Information Aggregation (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Antonin Mace, and Dimitrios Xefteris), NBER Working Paper 29005 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 16336) - Accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association [August 2023]
Runoff Elections in the Laboratory (with Jorge Gallego, Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Rebecca Morton), Economic Journal, 132(641), 2022, pp. 106-146 (also see NBER Working Paper 25949, 2019) [Last WP Version]
Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions (with Micael Castanheira and Garance Genicot), Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(6), 2021, pp. 3154-3206 (also see NBER Working Paper 25205, 2018 ) [February 2021]

Group-based Voting in Multicandidate Elections (with Benjamin Ogden), Journal of Politics, 83(2), 2021, pp. 468-482 (also see NBER Working Paper 23898, 2017) [Last WP Version]
The Tyranny of the Single Minded: Guns, Environment, and Abortion (with Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi), Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(1), 2021, pp. 48-59 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 12801) [Last WP Version]
- Subsumes: Guns and Votes (with Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi), NBER Working Paper 20253, 2014 [June 2014]

The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements (with Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico), Review of Economic Studies, 87(6), 2020, pp. 2568-2599 (also see NBER Working Paper 22570, 2016) [Last WP Version] [Online Appendix]
Get Rid of Unanimity: The Superiority of Majority Rules with Veto Power (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Frédéric Malherbe), Journal of Political Economy, 126(1), 2018, pp. 107-149 (also see NBER Working Paper 20417, 2014) [Last WP version]
- Extended Section 6: Common-Value, Information Aggregation, and Veto Power in Practice [October 2018]

Unanimous Rules in the Laboratory (with Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Frédéric Malherbe), Games and Economic Behavior, 102, 2017, pp. 179-198 (also see NBER Working Paper 21943, 201) [Last WP version]
Multicandidate Elections: Aggregate Uncertainty in the Laboratory (with Micael Castanheira, and Aniol Llorente-Saguer), Games and Economic Behavior, 101 (Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard), 2017, pp. 132-150 [Last WP version]
Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment (with Micael Castanheira, and Aniol Llorente-Saguer), Journal of Public Economics, 134, 2016, pp. 114-128 (also see IED Discussion Paper 242, 2012) [Last WP version] [Online Appendix]
Majority Runoff Elections: Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis (with Gabriele Gratton), Theoretical Economics, 10(2), 2015, pp. 283-314 (also see IED Discussion Paper 241, 2012) [Last WP version] [Technical Appendix 1] [Technical Appendix 2]
A Theory of Strategic Voting in Runoff Elections, American Economic Review, 103(4), 2013, pp. 1248-1288 (also see IED Discussion Paper 210, 2010) [Last WP version]
One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation (with Micael Castanheira), Econometrica, 80(1), 2012, pp. 43-87 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 6695 [Last WP version]
Redistributing Income under Fiscal Vertical Imbalance (with Marjorie Gassner and Vincenzo Verardi), European Journal of Political Economy, 24(2), 2008, pp. 317-328 [Last WP version]

La théorie économique du fédéralisme budgétaire (with Vincenzo Verardi), in Decoster, A. and Valenduc, C., Ed., L’impôt et la politique fiscale en Belgique, 2011, Collection Economie, Brussels : Editions de l’ULB
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

Good Rankings are Bad: Why Reliable Rankings can Hurt Consumers (with Georg Kirchsteiger), NBER Working Paper 21083, 2015 (also see CEPR Discussion Paper 8702 and IED Discussion Paper 222) [March 2015]