Tommaso Denti
Assistant Professor; Salvatore Faculty Fellow
Nicholas Kiefer
Ta-Chung Liu Professor
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1976
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David Easley
Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science
Stephen Coate
Kiplinger Professor of Public Policy
Publications
“Will Affirmative Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?” American Economic Review, Vol. 83, No. 5, December 1993, 1220-1240 (with Glenn Loury).
“The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations,” American Economic Review, Vol. 83, No. 4, September 1993, 792-810 (with Timothy Besley and Glenn Loury).
“Altruism, the Samaritan’s Dilemma and Government Transfer Policy,” American Economic Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, March 1995, 46-57.
“On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103, No. 6, December 1995, 1210-1235 (with Stephen Morris).
“An Economic Model of Representative Democracy,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 112, No. 1, February 1997, 85-106 (with Timothy Besley).
“Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: A Political Economy Analysis,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol 87, No. 12, December 2003, 2611-2637 (with Timothy Besley).
“Pareto Improving Campaign Finance Policy,” American Economic Review, Vol 94, No. 3, June 2004, 628-655.
“Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis,” Review of Economic Studies, Vol 72, No. 4, October 2005, 947-972 (with Simon Anderson).
“Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 122, No. 4, November 2007, 1409-1471 (with Brian Knight).
“A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation, and Debt,” American Economic Review, Vol 98, No. 1, March 2008, 201-236 (with Marco Battaglini).
“Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol 10, No. 1 (Advances), December 2010, Article 106 (with Brian Knight)
“A Political Economy Theory of Fiscal Policy and Unemployment,” Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol 14, No. 2, April 2016, 303-337 (with Marco Battaglini)
“The Costs and Benefits of Balanced Budget Rules: Lessons from a Political Economy Model of Fiscal Policy,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol 136, April 2016, 45-61 (with Marina Azzimonti and Marco Battaglini)
“Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency in a Dynamic Tiebout Model,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol 8, No.3, August 2016, 1-38 (with Levon Barseghyan)
Recent Papers
"Optimal Fiscal Limits with Overrides," Journal of Public Economics, 2019 (with Ross Milton)
"Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 (with Levon Barseghyan and Damon Clark)
"Community Development by Public Wealth Accumulation," Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming (with Levon Barseghyan)
"Community Development with Externalities and Corrective Taxation," 2019 (with Levon Barseghyan)
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Lawrence Blume
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Economics
Publications
- "Optimality and Natural Selection in Markets," (with D. Easley), Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming
- "The Algebraic Geometry of Perfect and Sequential Equilibrium," (with W. Zame), Econometrica, 1994
- "The Statistical Mechanics of Strategic Interaction," Games and Economic Behavior, 1993
- "Evolution and Market Behavior," (with D. Easley), Journal of Economic Theory, 1992
- "Lexicographic Probabilities and Equilibrium Refinements," (with A. Brandenburger and E. Dekel), Econometrica, 1991
- "On The Private Provision of Public Goods," (with T. Bergstrom and H. Varian), Journal of Public Economics, 1986
- "Learning to be Rational," (with D. Easley), Journal of Economic Theory, 1982.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977
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Marco Battaglini
Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics
Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000
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Kaushik Basu
Carl Marks Professor of International Studies
Education
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1976