Research
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
"Voting Rights, Agenda Control and Information Aggregation" (with Laurent Bouton, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Antonin Mace) in Journal of the European Economic Association, accepted. (w.p.)
"Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion" (with Konstantinos Matakos, Riikka Savolainen, Orestis Troumpounis, and Janne Tukiainen) in Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, accepted. (w.p.)
"Coordinated Democracy" in Games and Economic Behavior, accepted. (w.p.)
"Buying elections for peanuts" (with Gerard Domenech) in Economic Theory, accepted. (w.p.)
"The "invisible hand" of vote markets" (with Nicholas Ziros) in Social Choice and Welfare, accepted. (w.p.)
"Trimming Extreme Reports in Preference Aggregation" (with Philippos Louis and Matias Núñez) in Games and Economic Behavior, (2023), 137, 116-151. (w.p.)
"The last temptation: Is group-based voting resilient to pivotal considerations?" (with Nikolas Tsakas) in European Economic Review, (2023), 160, 104619. (w.p.)
"Coordination with preferences over the coalition size" (with Philippos Louis, Orestis Troumpounis and Nikolas Tsakas) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2023), 194, 105-123. (w.p.)
"Catalog competition: Theory and experimental evidence" (with Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Aurora García-Gallego and Nikolaos Georgantzis) in Economic Inquiry, (2023), 61:1, 122-137. (w.p.)
"Conscription and Educational Outcomes" (with Ruzica Savcic and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos) in Journal of Population Economics, (2023), 36, 2799–2824. (w.p.)
"Bandwagons in Costly Elections: The Role of Loss Aversion" (with Anastasia Leontiou and Georgios Manalis) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2023), 209, 471-490. (w.p.)
"The Virtuous Cycle of Agreement" (with Philippos Louis and Matias Núñez) in Economic Journal, (2022), 132:641, 326-360. (w.p.)
"How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies? An Experiment" (with Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Emma Manifold, and Konstantinos Matakos) in Journal of Public Economics, (2022), 215, 104747. (w.p.)
"Strategic Delegation to Organizations" (with Petros Sekeris) in Journal of Industrial Economics, (2022), 69:4, 900-922. (w.p.)
"Pandora's rules in the laboratory" (with Efthymios Lykopoulos and Georgios Voucharas) in Experimental Economics, (2022), 25, 1492–1514. (w.p.)
"On the implementation of the median" (with Matias Núñez and Carlos Pimienta) in Journal of Mathematical Economics, (2022), 99, 102595. (w.p.)
"Implementation by vote-buying mechanisms" (with Jon X. Eguia) in American Economic Review, (2021), 111:9, 2811-2828. (w.p.)
"Information aggregation with runoff voting" (with Nikolas Tsakas) in Journal of Economic Theory, (2021), 191, 105130 . (w.p.)
"Vote trading in power sharing systems: A laboratory investigation" (with Nikolas Tsakas and Nicholas Ziros) in Economic Journal, (2021), 131: 636 , 1849-1882. (w.p.)
"Stress-Testing the Runoff Rule in the Laboratory" (with Nikolas Tsakas) in Games and Economic Behavior, (2021), 128, 18-38. (w.p.)
"Resisting Persuasion" (with Elias Tsakas and Nikolas Tsakas) in Economic Theory, (2021), 72, 723–742. (w.p.)
"Apostolic Voting" (with Ruzica Savcic) in Canadian Journal of Economics, (2021), 54:3, 1400-1417. (sharable link) (w.p.)
"Class versus Identity: Candidates’ Race and the Inequality–Redistribution Nexus" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Quarterly Journal of Political Science, (2020), 15: 3, 401-447. (w.p.)
"Enforcement Actions on Banks and the Structure of Loan Syndicates" (with Manthos Delis, Maria Iosifidi, Sotirios Kokas, and Steven Ongena) in Journal of Corporate Finance, (2020), 60, 1015272. (w.p.)
"Economic Insecurity and Political Stability: A Case for Growth-Targeting Systemic Vote" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Oxford Economic Papers, (2020), 72:3, 829–862. (w.p.)
"Qualifying the common pool problem in government spending: the role of positional externalities" (with Dusan Pavlovic) in Constitutional Political Economy, (2020), 31,446–457.
"Electoral spillovers in an intertwined world: Brexit effects on the 2016 Spanish vote" (with Agelos Delis and Konstantinos Matakos) in British Journal of Political Science, (2020), 50:3, 1169-1174. (w.p.)
"Electoral Rules, Strategic Entry and Polarization" (with Damien Bol, Konstantinos Matakos, and Orestis Troumpounis) in Journal of Public Economics, (2019), 178, 104065. (w.p.)
"Strategic voting when participation is costly" in Games and Economic Behavior, (2019), 116, 122-127. (w.p.)
"Does exposure to the refugee crisis make natives more hostile?" (with Dominik Hangartner, Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, and Konstantinos Matakos) in American Political Science Review, (2019), 113:2, 442-455. (w.p.)
"Electoral competition with primaries and quality asymmetries" (with Bernard Grofman and Orestis Troumpounis) in Journal of Politics, (2019), 81:1, 260-273. (w.p.)
"Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-Right Parties?" (with Elias Dinas, Dominik Hangartner, and Konstantinos Matakos) in Political Analysis, (2019), 27:2. 244-254. (w.p.) (Media summary)
"Social Welfare with Net Utilities" (with Jon X. Eguia) in Public Choice (special issue in honor of Kenneth Arrow), (2019), 179:1, 41-49. (w.p.)
"Electoral Competition with Third Party Entry in the Lab" (with Nikolas Tsakas) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2018), 148, 121-134. (w.p.)
"Electoral Competition under Costly Policy Implementation" (with Galina Zudenkova) in Social Choice and Welfare, (2018), 50:4, 721-739. (w.p.)
"Strategic vote trading under complete information" (with Nicholas Ziros) in Journal of Mathematical Economics, (2018), 78, 52-58. (w.p.)
"Candidate valence in a spatial model with entry" in Public Choice, (2018), 176:3-4, 341-359. (w.p.)
"Electoral spillovers in an intertwined world: Brexit effects on the 2016 Spanish vote" (with Agelos Delis and Konstantinos Matakos) in British Journal of Political Science, (2020), 50:3, 1169-1174. (w.p.)
"Implementation via Approval Mechanisms" (with Matías Núñez) in Journal of Economic Theory, (2017), 170, 169-181. (w.p.) (The Conversation)
"Voters' private valuation of candidates' quality" (with Enriqueta Aragonés) in Journal of Public Economics, (2017), 156, 121-130. (w.p.)
"Imperfectly informed voters and strategic extremism" (with Enriqueta Aragonés) in International Economic Review, (2017), 58:2, 439-471. (w.p.)
"Multidimensional electoral competition between differentiated candidates" in Games and Economic Behavior, (2017), 105, 112-121. (w.p.)
"Strategic Vote Trading in Power-Sharing Systems" (with Nicholas Ziros) in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2017), 9:2, 76-94. (w.p.)
"Divide and rule: Redistribution in a model with differentiated candidates" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Economic Theory, (2017), 63:4, 867-902. (w.p.)
"Electoral thresholds as coordination devices" (with Matías Núñez) in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (2017), 119:2, 346-374. (w.p.)
"Simple centrifugal incentives in spatial competition" (with Didier Laussel and Michel Le Breton) in International Journal of Game Theory, (2017), 46:2, 357-381. (view only) (w.p.)
"When Extremes Meet: Redistribution in a Multiparty Model with Differentiated Parties" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Journal of Theoretical Politics, (2017), 29:4, 546–577. (w.p.)
"Stability in electoral competition: A case for multiple votes" in Journal of Economic Theory, (2016), 161, 76-102. (w.p.)
"Electoral Rule Disproportionality and Platform Polarization" (with Konstantinos Matakos and Orestis Troumpounis) in American Journal of Political Science, (2016), 60:4, 1026-1043. (w.p.)
"Citizens or Clients? Evidence on opportunistic voting from a natural experiment in Greece" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Political Science Research and Methods (Journal of the European Political Science Association), (2016), 4:3, 493-531. (w.p.)
"Incomplete Information, Proportional Representation and Strategic Voting" (with Orestis Troumpounis) in Social Choice and Welfare, (2016), 47:4, 879–903. (view only) (w.p.)
"Election Note: The September 20, 2015 Parliamentary Election in Greece" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Electoral Studies, (2016), 43, 172-176.
"Symmetric zero-sum games with only asymmetric equilibria" in Games and Economic Behavior, (2015), 89, 122-125. (w.p.)
"Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty" (with Konstantinos Matakos) in Public Choice, (2015), 122 (3-4), 329-350. (w.p.)
"Turnout and polarization under alternative electoral systems" (with Konstantinos Matakos and Orestis Troumpounis) in The Political Economy of Governance, Eds. N. Schofield and G. Caballero, (2015), 335-362. (w.p.)
"Transitive supermajority rule relations" (with Riste Gjorgjiev) in Economic Theory Bulletin, (2015), 3:2, 299-312. (w.p.)
"How robust is majority voting as a social choice rule?" in Oxford Economic Papers, (2014), 64:4, 1006-1018. (w.p.)
"Mixed equilibria in runoff elections" in Games and Economic Behavior, (2014), 87, 619-623. (w.p.)
"Mixed equilibriums in a three-candidate spatial model with candidate valence" in Public Choice, (2014), 158:1-2, 101-120. (w.p.)
"Hotelling was right" in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, (2013), 22:4, 706-712. (w.p.)
"A necessary and sufficient single-profile condition for transitivity of the Pareto extension order" in International Journal of Economic Theory, (2013), 9, 313-317. (w.p.)
"Equilibria in Unidirectional Spatial Models" in Economics Letters, (2013), 119:2, 146-149. (w.p.)
"Equilibrium in a discrete Downsian model given a non-minimal valence advantage and linear loss functions" in Mathematical Social Sciences, (2013), 65, 150-153. (w.p.)
"Candidate quality in a Downsian Model with a Continuous Policy Space" (with Enriqueta Aragonés) in Games and Economic Behavior, (2012), 75:2, 464-480. (video) (w.p.)
"Mixed strategy equilibrium in a Downsian Model with a favored candidate. A comment" in Journal of Economic Theory, (2012), 147:1, 393-396. (w.p.)
"A necessary and sufficient single-profile condition for transitivity of the majority rule relation" in Economics Letters, (2012), 116:3, 516-518. (w.p.)
"Formalizing Happiness" in Journal of Happiness Studies, (2012), 13:2, 291-311. (w.p.)
"Spatial electoral competition with a probabilistically favored candidate" in Economics Letters, (2012), 116:1, 96-98. (w.p.)
"Referenda as a Catch-22" in Social Choice and Welfare, (2011), 37:1, 121-138. (w.p.)
"The Political Economy of Constitutional Restraints" in Constitutional Political Economy (2011), 22:3, 221-237. (w.p.)
RESEARCH PAPERS
"Efficiency in Collective Decision-Making via Quadratic Transfers" (with Jon X. Eguia, Nicole Immorlica, Steven P. Lalley, Katrina Ligett, and Glen Weyl) (older version)
"Information Aggregation with Delegation of Votes" (with Amrita Dhillon, Grammateia Kotsialou and Dilip Ravindran)
"Logrolling and the Power of Single-Mindedness" (with Arseniy Samsonov and Albert Sole Olle)
"Public Information as a Source of Disagreement Among Shareholders" (with Laurent Bouton, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Antonin Mace, Adam Meirowitz, and Shaoting Pi )
"Ideological consistency and valence" (with Enriqueta Aragonés)
"Common Ownership Unpacked" (with Olga Chiappinelli and Konstantinos Papadopoulos)
"Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship" (with Maxim Ananyev, Maria Petrova and Galina Zudenkova)
"Lognormal (Re)Distribution: A Macrofounded Theory of Inequality" (with Jon Eguia)
"Unanimous implementation: A case for approval mechanisms" (with Matías Núñez)
"Multi-market equilibria in spatial market games" (with Nicholas Ziros)
"Constitutional Design and Political Communication"