Working papers

Understanding Demand for Police Alternatives (with B. Ba, M. Baskar, T. Cheng, R. Mariman)

Public debt sustainability criteria: A reassessment (with B. Eichengreen).

Does public debt impair total factor productivity (with P. Villieu, A. Minea, G. Donnat)

Fighting for Resources and Economic Growth (with P. Villieu). 

Published and accepted papers

Increasing Returns, Balanced-Budget Rules, and Aggregate Fluctuations (with P. Villieu et A. Minea). Annals of Economics and Statistics, accepted.

An Economic Theory of the Soviet System (with A. Parent).  Journal of Mathematical Economics ,  118, 103115, June, 2025.

The Perils of Fiscal Feedback Rules (avec A. Minea et P. Villieu).  Journal of Economic Theory, 220, 105857, Septembre, 2024.

Fiscal and environmental sustainability: Is public debt environmentally friendly ? (with Matilda Baret). Environmental and Resource Economics, 87, 1497-1520, 2024.

Do Conservative Central Bankers Weaken the Chances of Conservative Politicians? (with P. Villieu et H. Oriola). Social Choice and Welfare, 62, 681-738, 2024.

Conflict under the shadow of elections (with P. Sekeris). Public Choice , 200, 173-1999, 2024.

Environmental Quality along the Process of Economic Growth: A Theoretical Reappraisal (with A. Minea, P. Villieu & A. Xepapadeas). Economic Theory, 77, 1219-1258, 2024.

Collusion and Predation Under Cournot Competition (with P. Sekeris et E. Dargaud). Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(1), 315-325, 2024.

Can Public Debt Mitigate Environmental Debt? Theory and Empirical Evidence (with M. Boly, J.-L. Combes, P. Combes Motel,  A. Minea, P. Villieu). Energy Economics, 11, 105895, 2022.

Engaging in Wars of Attrition (with P. Sekeris). Annals of Economics and Statistics, 147, 79-100, 2022.

Overconfidence and Conflict (with P. Sekeris). Economic Inquiry, 59(2), 1483-1499, 2021.

Reputation versus “the need for enemies” (with P. Villieu). Economic Theory, 72, 1049-1089, 2021.

Does public debt secure social peace? A diversionary theory of public debt management (with P. Villieu & M. Voia). Social Choice and Welfare, 57, 475-501, 2021 (lead article).

Is a Long War Desirable? Optimal Debt Concessions in Attrition Warfare.  Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2020. ADRES Best Young Paper Award.

Deficit, Monetization, and Economic Growth: A Case for Multiplicity and Indeterminacy (with P. Villieu & A. Minea). Economic Theory, 65(4), 819-853, 2018 (lead article).

Consensus-building in Electoral Competitions: Evidence from Papal Election. Economics Bulletin, 37(4), 2826-2834, 2017.

Public Debt Adjustment in a Simple Model of Stochastic Endogenous Growth (with P. Villieu). Revue d’Economie Politique, 124(6), 991-1012, 2014.

Other wirtings  in the history of economic thought

The language of debt in the New Testament: The case of the “payment of taxes to Caesar”. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, accepted.

The physiocrat analysis of money: A reappraisal (with P. Villieu). History of Political Economy, 55(5), 860-904, 2023.

Theology and Economics: the case of the Early Jansenism.  Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 12(2), 189-231, 2022.

“Liberal” Jansenists and Interest-Bearing Loans in Eighteenth Century France: A Reappraisal (with A. Orain). The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24(4), 708-741, 2017. Repubhished in G. Faccarello (Eds.), Political Economy and Religion, Routledge, chap. 4, 2018.