Nicolas Bottan
Assistant Professor
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Michael Lovenheim
Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007
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Maria Fitzpatrick
Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2008
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Matthew Baron
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2015
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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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Levon Barseghyan
Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics
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Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice, with D. Clark and S. Coate, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Download The Online Appendix.
Estimating Risk Preferences in the Field, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and Josh Teitelbaum, Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 56, No. 2, Pages 501-564, June 2018.
Political Economy of Debt and Growth, with M. Battaglini, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 82, Pages 36–51, September 2016. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.
Inference under Stability of Risk Preferences, with F. Molinari and J. Teitelbaum, Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 367-409, August 2016.*
Property Taxation, Zoning and Efficiency in A Dynamic Tiebout Model, with S. Coate, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 1-38, August 2016.
Externalities, Endogenous Productivity, and Poverty Traps, with R. DiCecio, European Economic Review, Volume 85, pp. 112-126, June 2016.
Bureaucrats, Voters, and Public Investment, with S. Coate, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 119, Pages 34-48, November 2014. The Online Appendix can be downloaded <a data-cke-saved-href="https://barseghyan.economics.cornell.edu/docs/PUBEC_3484_On_Line_Appendix.pdf aria-label=" href="https://barseghyan.economics.cornell.edu/docs/PUBEC_3484_On_Line_Appendix.pdf aria-label=" journal="" of="" public="" economics"="">here.
Fiscal Policy Over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory, with M. Battaglini and S. Coate, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 148, Issue 6, Pages 2223-2265, November 2013.
The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review, Volume 103, Number 6, Pages 2499-2529, October 2013.*
Distinguishing Probability Weighting from Risk Misperceptions in Field Data, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Volume 103, Number 3, Pages 580-585, May 2013.*
Cross Country Income Convergence Revisited, with R. DiCecio, Economics Letters, Volume 113, Issue 3, Pages 244-247, December 2011.
Entry Costs, Industry Structure, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences, with R. DiCecio, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 106, Issue 5, Pages 1828-1851, September 2011. The Preprint can be downloaded here.
Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data, with J. Prince and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review, Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 591-631, April 2011. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.
Institutions and Growth in Limited Access Societies, with A. Guerdjikova, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 528-568, March 2011. The Preprint can be downloaded here.
Non Performing Loans, Prospective Bailouts, and Japan's Slowdown, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 57, Issue 7, Pages 873-890, October 2010. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.
Institutional Causes of Output Volatility, with R. DiCecio, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Volume 92, Issue 3, Pages 205-224, May/June 2010.
Entry Costs and Cross-Country Differences in Productivity and Output , Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 13, Number 2, Pages 145-167, June 2008.
Optimal Monetary Policy, Endogenous Sticky Prices and Multiplicity of Equilibria, with R. DiCecio, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: 2007, Vol. 7: Issue 1 (Topics), Article 8.
Japan's Government Debt and Interest Rates, Japan and the World Economy, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 278-297, August 2006.
Financial support from the National Science Foundation through grant SES-1031136 for research marked by a "*" is gratefully acknowledged.