César Martinelli

Centro de Investigación Económica Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Camino Santa Teresa 930 10700 México DF MEXICO

+52 (55) 56284000 extension 2906 or +52 (55) 5628 4197 (phones) +52 (55) 5628 4058 (fax) martinel@itam.mx

I am a professor of economics and a researcher at the Center for Economic Research, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (CIE - ITAM).  My research areas are public economics, political economy and game theory. I am a Fellow of the Econometric Society, elected in 2009, and an editorial board member of Social Choice and Welfare. Here is a copy of my vita.  Aquí hay una copia de mi vita en español. Below there are links to current and past research, syllabi from courses taught at ITAM, and other stuff.

research

recent working papers

· Voting and Incentives in Cartels (with Richard Sicotte)

· Information and Participation in Social Programs (with David Coady and Susan W. Parker)

publications

· A Spatial Theory of Media Slant and Voter Choice (with John Duggan), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming [working paper]

· Bargaining over Public Goods (with Julio Dávila and Jan Eeckhout), Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 11 (2009) 927-945 [working paper]

· Deception and Misreporting in a Social Program (with Susan W. Parker), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 7 (2009) 886-908 [working paper]. This article was reviewed by Stephen J. Dubner in the New York Times blog Freakonomics on Monday June 23, 2008 and discussed in the public-radio program The Takeaway on June 24, 2008

· Do School Subsidies Promote Human Capital Accumulation among the Poor? (with Susan W. Parker), Scandinavian Journal of Economics vol. 110 (2008) 261–276 [working paper]

· Policy Platforms, Campaign Spending and Voter Participation (with Helios Herrera and David K. Levine), Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 (2008) 501-513 [working paper]

· When Are Stabilizations Delayed? Alesina-Drazen Revisited (with Raúl Escorza), European Economic Review, vol. 51 (2007) 1223-1245 [working paper]

· Rational Ignorance and Voting Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 35 (2007) 315-335 [working paper]

· Group Formation and Voter Participation (with Helios Herrera), Theoretical Economics, vol. 1 (2006) 461-487

· Would Rational Voters Acquire Costly Information?, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 129 (2006) 225-251 [working paper]

· Anonymity in Large Societies (with Andrei Gomberg and Ricard Torres), Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 25 (2005) 187-205 [working paper]

· Should Transfers to Poor Families be Conditional on School Attendance? A Household Bargaining Perspective (with Susan W. Parker), International Economic Review, vol. 44 (2003) 523-544

· Simple Plurality versus Plurality Runoff with Privately Informed Voters, Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 19 (2002) 901-920 [working paper]

· Convergence Results for Unanimous Voting, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 105 (2002) 278-297 [working paper]

· Policy Reversals: Electoral Competition with Privately Informed Parties (with Akihiko Matsui), Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 4 (2002), 39-61 [working paper]

· A Bayesian Model of Voting in Juries (with John Duggan), Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 37 (2001), 259-294 [working paper]

· Elections with Privately Informed Parties and Voters, Public Choice, vol. 108 (2001) 147-167

· Reputation with Noisy Precommitment (with David K. Levine), Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 78 (1998) 55-75 [working paper]

· Small Firms, Borrowing Constraints, and Reputation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 33 (1997) 91-105

· Sequencing of Economic Reforms in the Presence of Political Constraints (with Mariano Tommasi), Economics & Politics, vol. 9 (1997) 115-131.  Reprinted in The Political Economy of Economic Reforms,  Mariano Tommasi and Federico Sturzenegger (editors), MIT Press (1998) 285-304 [working paper]

publicaciones en español

· “La expropiación de la banca en México: un ensayo de economía política” (con Gustavo del Ángel-Mubarak), Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, México (2009). This book was awarded the first place at the 2007 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Prize. Here is an abridged version

· Subsidios condicionales a los pobres: Un enfoque de bienestar, en Desarrollo Económico y Bienestar, Homenaje a Máximo Vega-Centeno, Efraín Gonzales de Olarte y Javier Iguíñiz (editores), Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Católica del Perú (2009)

· ¿Saben lo que quieren los votantes?, en Economía Dinámica, Economía Aplicada y Teoría de Juegos, Ensayos en Homenaje a Ramón García-Cobián, César Martinelli y Loretta Gasco (editores), Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Católica del Perú (2007).  This book honors an excellent Peruvian mathematician, teacher and friend.  Here is a link to the PUCP Press

· Análisis económico de la conducta de los votantes, El Trimestre Económico, vol. 73 (2006) 211-237

teaching

· Political Economy (Spring 2010)

· Undergraduate Seminar (Public Economics and Political Economy) (Spring 2010)

links

· Follow this link for prices and ratings of economic textbooks

· David Levine’s site is a great source for recent research in economic and game theory

· Social Choice and Welfare is a journal dedicated to welfare economics and collective decision-making, including voting theory

· Theoretical Economics aims to be the leading journal in economic theory and offers unrestricted online access. It is managed by the Econometric Society

· BE Journal of Theoretical Economics is an online economic theory journal which offers simultaneous consideration at 3 quality-rated tiers distinguished by breadth of appeal and overall quality

Last updated: May 2010