Marco Battaglini
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
001 Fisher Hall,
Phone: 609-258-4002
Fax: 609-258-6419
e-mail: mbattagl "at" princeton.EDU
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Curriculum Vitae
Fields of Interest: Economic Theory, Game Theory, Contract Theory, Political
Economy, Laboratory Experiments.
Working Papers:
Optimal Dynamic
Contracting with
Rohit Lamba
Growth
and Fiscal Policy: a Positive Theory with
Levon Barseghyan
"The Free Rider Problem:
a Dynamic Analysis," with Salvatore Nunnari and
Thomas Palfrey
"The Dynamic Free Rider Problem:
A Laboratory Study,'' with
Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas Palfrey
"Fiscal Policy and
Unemployment," with Stephen Coate
"Cheap Talk with Multiple Audiences: an
Experimental Analysis" * with
Uliana Makarov
"A Dynamic Theory of Electoral
Competition" *
"Fiscal Policy over the Real
Business Cycle: A Positive Theory," *
with Levon Barseghyan and
Stephen Coate.
On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, *
with M. Azzimonti and S. Coate.
My research in the papers with a * is
supported by the National Science Foundation through a CAREER Award.
My research in the papers with a * is supported by the
National Science Foundation SES-0418150, 2004-2007.
Published or forthcoming papers:
"Legislative Bargaining and the Dynamics of Public Investment," * with Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas Palfrey, American Political Science Review, forthcoming.
Comments on Prat and Stromberg, and Robinson and Torvik. Forthcoming in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Tenth World Congress.
The Political Economy of Public Debt, Annual Review of
Economics, Vol. 3, 2011.
The Dynamics of Redistributive Politics, * with
Thomas Palfrey, Economic Theory,
April 2012, 49 (3), pp. 739-777.
The
Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory, * with Rebecca
Morton and Thomas Palfrey. Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77
(1), pp. 61-89.
Information and Pivotal Voter Models in Large Laboratory
Elections, * with
Rebecca Morton and Thomas Palfrey. American Economic Review Papers and
Proceedings, May 2008, v.
98, iss. 2, pp. 194-200.
The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy, * with Stephen Coate. Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, April-May 2008, v. 6, iss. 2-3, pp. 367-80.
A Dynamic Theory of Public
Spending, Taxation and Debt," * with
Stephen Coate. Read here
the review in NAJ Economics. American Economic
Review, March 2008, v. 98, iss. 1, pp. 201-36. Michael
Wallerstein Award from the American Political Science Association for best
article published in 2008 in the area of political economy.
Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilities," * with Stephen Coate. Journal of Public Economics, April 2008, v. 92, iss. 3-4, pp. 844-68.
Efficiency, Equity and Timing in Voting Mechanisms, * with Rebecca Morton and Thomas Palfrey, American Political Science Review, Volume 101, Issue 03, August 2007, pp 409-424.
Inefficiency in Legislative Policy-Making: A Dynamic Analysis," * with Stephen Coate, American Economic Review, Vol. 97, n. 1, March 2007, pp.118-149.
"Optimality and Renegotiation in Dynamic Contracting," * , Games and Economic Behavior , Volume 60, Issue 2, August 2007, Pages 213-246.
"Joint
Production in Teams," Journal of Economic Theory,
Vol. 130, n.1, September 2006, pp.138-167.
"Self-control in
Peer Groups," Journal of Economic Theory with R.
Benabou and J. Tirole, Vol. 123, n. 2, August 2005, pp. 81-220.
"Long-Term
Contracting with Markovian Consumers," * American
Economic Review, Vol. 95, n.3, June 2005, pp. 637-658.
"Sequential Voting with
Abstention," Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 51, n. 2,
"Policy Advice with
Imperfectly Informed Experts," Advances in Theoretical
Economics: Vol. 4: 2004, No. 1. Winner of the
2005 Kenneth Arrow Prize in Economics for Junior Faculty.
"Trust, Coordination,
and The Industrial Organization of Political Activism,"
Journal of the European Economic Association with Roland Benabou
Vol.1, issue 4, June 2003.
"Multiple Referrals
and Multidimensional Cheap Talk," Econometrica , Vol.
70, n.4, July 2002, pp. 1379-1401.
"Should we Trust banks When they sit on the
Board of Directors?" with Francesco Giavazzi, in Corporate
Governance, Financial Markets and Global Convergence, 1998, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, M. Balling at al. (eds.).
Princeton Conference on Political
Economy
Newspaper Columns
21st Jerusalem School in Economic
Theory (July 2010): my Lectures.
Teaching:
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Topics in Economic Theory
- Economics and Politics