1. Judicial Decisions, Backlash and Secessionism: The Spanish Constitutional Court and Catalonia.  (with F. Curci and A. de Moragas). 

   • Economic Journal (Abstract, Appendix, pdf Previously circulated as: "Checks and Balances and Nation Building").

2. Incentivizing brokers in clientelist parties (with D. Kselman). 

   • Journal of Politics. [pdf, Summary RedNIE, abstract]

3. Technological Change, Campaign Spending and Polarization, with P. Balart and O. Troumpounis, April 2022 

   • Journal of Public Economics, [video,pdf, abstract]

4. The Electoral Benefits of Unemployment, Clientelism and Distributive Politics, 

   • World Development, May 2020 [pdf, more] 

5. Ideological Extremism and primaries, 

   • Economic Theory, March 2019 [pdf, more]

6. Distributive politics with vote and turnout buying, 

   • American Political Science Review, July 2018 [link, more]

7.  Who monitors the monitors? Effect of party observers on electoral outcomes, with G. Diaz and A. Trindade, 

   • Journal of Public Economics. January 2017 [link, media, more] 

8. Surprise Me if You Can: The Influence of Newspaper Endorsements in US Presidential Elections, with Y. Fawaz and A. Trindade, Economic Inquiry, February 2016 [More] 

   • Selected Media coverage: CNN,BBC, Pacific Standard, New York Magazine, Washington Post, La Nacion, Infobae, etc. 

9. Altitude as handicap in rank-order football tournaments with Y. Fawaz, Applied Economics Letters, July 2015 [abstract]

10. Populism and Income Redistribution with L. Campos, Economics Letters, January 2020 [pdf, abstract].

11. How Influential is Ballot Design in Elections? with G. Diaz and C. Mavridis. 2020. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. [More]

12. Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century, with L.Campos. 2021. European Journal of Political Economy. [Draft: RedNIE WP]

Working papers 

1. Cooperation and Retaliation in Legislative Bargaining (with M. Gonzalez-Eiras)

   • • Revise and Resubmit International Economic Review

     • Abstract

2. Gender, Political (in) Experience and Corruption (with G. Diaz)

   • • Submitted

3. Philantrocapitalism: Philanthropy, Tax Incentives and Inequality (with H. Papioti)

   • • New version coming soon!

4. From Russia with War (with  F.Curci).

   • • Submitted

     • Abstract, Working Paper, Non-technical summary

Work in progress

5. Turnout and polarization (working title) (with Balart, Domenech and Troumpounis)

6. Vaccines and populism (working title) (with Fawaz and Pronkina)

7. Random Electoral Advertising (with Ines Berniell and Sofia del Poggeto)

Old projects

1. Optimal firm ownership: when do cooperatives can outperform investor-owned firms?

2. Clientelism, fraud, or defending democracy? (with R. Weitz-Shapiro).