I am a Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Luxembourg.
My research interests center on political economy and the dynamic aspects of collective decision making. On this website, you can find my (modest) attempts at contributing to these topics, which often reflect my combined fascination with political institutions and economic theory.
A new working paper, "The Political Economy of Morality Policy: Collective Choice and Denial" with Renee Bowen, which I will present at the 2025 Princeton-Warwick-Yale Political Economy Conference, May12-13
Two other working papers coming soon:
"No Way Out: Dual Channels of Manipulation in Agenda Voting," with Tianxiong Yu
"Neglect," with Dan Barron, Peter Buisseret, and Jin Li
Starting in September, I will serve as Head of the Department of Economics and Management at the UL
"The Politics of Bargaining as a Group" (with Peter Buisseret). [An earlier version with results on long-run power concentration can be found here.]
"Deciding When To Decide: Collective Deliberation and Obstruction" (2023, with Mikhail Safronov), International Economic Review 64, 757-781.
"Making Elections Work: Accountability with Selection and Control" (2022, with Peter Buisseret), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 14, 616-644.
"Policy Experimentation in Committees: a Case against Veto Rights under Redistributive Constraints" (2021, with Renee Bowen), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 13, 124-162.
"Coercive Trade Policy" (2019, with Giovanni Facchini), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 11: 225-256.
"Existence and Indeterminacy of Markovian Equilibria in Dynamic Bargaining Games" (2018, with John Duggan), Theoretical Economics 13: 505-525. [See the WP version for additional results on mixed strategy equilibria and Pareto optimality.]
"Dynamic Bargaining and Stability with Veto Players" (2017, with John Duggan), Games and Economic Behavior 103: 30-40. [Selected by the Editors of GEB for inclusion in the John Nash Memorial Special Issue.]
"Bargaining in Standing Committees with an Endogenous Default" (2015, with Daniel Seidmann), Review of Economic Studies 82: 825-867.
"Bargaining over an Endogenous Agenda" (2014, with Daniel Seidmann) Theoretical Economics 9: 445-482.