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My main area of interest is political economy. How do heterogeneous interests, mediated by political institutions, affect the choice of economic policy, the choices of firms and households, and thence various micro and macroeconomic outcomes?

Selected publications

"Mobilization and Backlash: Asymmetric Updating in Response to Campaign Ads"
Review of Economics and Statistics (2024)

"Where Does Opportunity Knock? On Doors That Voted for the Executive"
Journal of Public Economics (2023) September

"Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining" (with Hisam Sabouni)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2022) 14(4): 1-25.

"State Legislative Redistricting: The Effectiveness of Traditional Districting Principles in the 2010 Wave." (with Hisam Sabouni) (2021) Election Law Journal 20.2:198-214.

"Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment: Evidence from U.S. State Elections" (with Nathan Falk) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2018) 10(4): 135-152.

"Congress and the Federal Reserve" (with Gregory Hess) Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, (2016), 48(4), 603-633.

"Legislative Electoral Budget Cycles" Public Choice, (2014), 159(1), 251-275.

"The Vicious Cycle: Fundraising and Perceived Viability in US Presidential Primaries" (with James Feigenbaum)
Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2012) 7: 1-40.

"The Information Content of Elections and Varieties of the Partisan Political Business Cycle" Public Choice (2012) 150(1-2) 209-240

"Elections and Political Risk: New Evidence from Political Prediction Markets in Taiwan" (with Masami Imai)
Journal of Public Economics (2011), 95(7-8) 837-849

"The Aging Population and the Size of the Welfare State: Is There A Puzzle?" Journal of Public Economics (2008), 92(3-4) 647-651.

"The Size and Composition of Government Expenditure" Journal of Public Economics (2007), 91 (11) 2230-2260.