Publications
Sticky Spending, Sequestration, and Government Debt, (with Facundo Piguillem), online appendix, slides , VoxEu column November 2024 forthcoming American Economic Review
The Power of The Federal Reserve Chair, (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia), 2023, Vol. 64, No. 2 (May), pp. 727-756, International Economic Review
What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-building? (with Paola Giuliano, and Bryony Reich). Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures, 2023 edited by Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (CEPR e-book)
Fiscal Rules as Bargaining Chips (with Facundo Piguillem), 2021, Review of Economic Studies, September, Vol. 88(5) No. 322: 2439-2478, slides
Nation-building, Nationalism and Wars (with Alberto Alesina and Bryony Reich), 2020, Journal of Economic Growth, 25(4):381-43, slides
Legal Efficiency and Consistency (with Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli), 2020, European Economic Review, January, vol, 121.
Mind Changes at the FOMC (2019) (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia), Economics Letters, vol. 184, November.
Monetary Policy Committees: Voting and Deliberation (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia) in Hawks and Doves: Deeds and Words, Economics and Politics of Monetary Policy Making. edited by Donato Masciandaro and Sylvester Eijffinger. 2018, CEPR Press
Collective versus Individual Decisionmaking: a Case Study of the Bank of Israel Law (2017) (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia), European Economic Review, vol 93: 73-89.
Collective Decision Making and Monetary Policy (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia) SUERF CPs 2016/4, Central Banking and Monetary Policy: Which will be the New Post-crisis Normal?, edited by Ernest Gnan and Donato Masciandaro. pp. 43-50. Larcier Editions.
Spending Biased Legislators: Discipline Through Disagreement, (2015) (with Facundo Piguillem) Quarterly Journal of Economics 130(2), pp. 901-949. presentation slides
Doubts and Dogmatism in Conflict Behavior, (2015) (with Sidartha Gordon) Economic Journal, Volume 125(589), pp 1790-1817, December wp version
Dissent in Monetary Policy Decisions (2014) (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia) Journal of Monetary Economics vol(6), pp: 137-154. wp version
Why Stare Decisis?” (2014) (with Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli), Review of Economic Dynamics vol(4), pp: 726-738. wp version
Legal Institutions,Innovation and Growth (2013) (with Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli, Giovanni Immordino), International Economic Review vol(54) 937-956 (08) wp version
Ideology and Endogenous Constitutions, (2013) Economic Theory, 52(3) 885-913, April wp version
Monetary Policy by Committee: Consensus, Chairman Dominance or Simple Majority? (with. Francisco Ruge-Murcia) Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 125, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 363-416.
Committees as Substitutes for Commitment” International Economic Review, 51 (1); (February 2010), pp. 213-236.
The Dynamic (In)efficiency of Monetary Policy by Committee (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 40(5), 2008, 1001-1032.
Preference Heterogeneity in Monetary Policy Committees (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia) International Journal of Central Banking, 4(1), March 2008, 213-233
Working Papers
Membership Turnover and Policy Disagreement at the FOMC (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia), R&R AEJ Macroeconomics 2025
Changing Values and Partisan Realignment: a Political Economy Model. 2025
Deliberation and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from the Textual Analysis of FOMC Transcripts (with Francisco Ruge-Murcia and Linh Tran), 2025
"Dynamic Bargaining over Redistribution in Legislatures", (with Facundo Piguillem), January 2016. presentation slides R&R Journal of the European Economic Association