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Working Papers

Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy, with Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies

Coordination with Cognitive Noise, with Cary Frydman
Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Negative Emission Technologies and Climate Cooperation, with Michela Boldrini and Valentina Bosetti
Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics

Does Partisanship or Arguing Activate Political Motivated Reasoning?, with Andrew T. Little

Range Effects in Economic Choice: The Role of Complexity, with Tommaso Bondi, Daniel Csaba, and Evan Friedman

Do Political Representation Gaps Cause Populism?, with Laurenz Guenther, Media: Financial Times

Meta-Analysis of Prospect Theory Parameters, with Taisuke Imai, Ferdinand M. Vieider, and Jilong Wu

Reciprocity and Democratic Accountability, with Benjamin Blumenthal


Published Papers

Meta-Analysis of Distributional Preferences, with Massimiliano Pozzi
Economic Journal, Forthcoming

Audi Alteram Partem: An Experiment on Selective Exposure to Information, with Giovanni Montanari
Journal of the Economic Science Association, Forthcoming

A Model of Focusing in Political Choice, with Jan Zapal
Journal of Politics, 2025, 87(4): 1465–1481

Looking into Crystal Balls: A Laboratory Experiment on Reputational Cheap Talk, with Debrah Meloso and Marco Ottaviani
Management Science, 2023, 69(9): 4973–5693, Replication Data

Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning, with Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini
American Journal of Political Science, 2023, 67(1): 5–21, Online Appendix, Replication Data, Media: La Nación

Declared Support and Clientelism, with Simeon Nichter
Comparative Political Studies, 2022, 55(13): 2178–2216, Online Appendix, Replication Data

A Theory of Power Wars, with Helios Herrera and Massimo Morelli
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2022, 17(1): 1–30, Replication Data

Dynamic Legislative Bargaining with Veto Power: Theory and Experiments
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126: 186–230

The Political Economy of Public Debt: A Laboratory Study, with Marco Battaglini and Thomas R. Palfrey
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(4): 1969–2012, Online Appendix, Replication Data

The Economic Effects of Electoral Rules: Evidence from Unemployment Benefits, with Vincenzo Galasso
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2019, 14(3): 259–291, Replication Data

Durable Coalitions and Communication: Public versus Private Negotiations, with Renee Bowen and David Baron
Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156: 1–13, Online Appendix, Replication Data

Dynamic Elections and Ideological Polarization, with Jan Zapal
Political Analysis, 2017, 25(4): 505–534

Gambler's Fallacy and Imperfect Best Response in Legislative Bargaining, with Jan Zapal
Games and Economic Behavior, 2016, 99: 275–294, Online Appenix

Quantal Response and Nonequilibrium Beliefs Explain Overbidding in Maximum-Value Auctions, with Colin Camerer and Thomas R. Palfrey
Games and Economic Behavior, 2016, 98: 243–263, Replication Data

The Dynamic Free Rider Problem: A Laboratory Study, with Marco Battaglini and Thomas R. Palfrey
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2016, 8(4): 268–308, Replication Data

Turnout Across Democracies, with Helios Herrera and Massimo Morelli
American Journal of Political Science, 2016, 60(3): 607–624, Online Appendix, Replication Data

Dynamic Free Riding with Irreversible Investments, with Marco Battaglini and Thomas R. Palfrey
American Economic Review, 2014, 104(9): 2858–2871, Online Appendix

Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment, with Marco Battaglini and Thomas R. Palfrey
American Political Science Review, 2012, 106(2): 407–429, Online Appendix