Peer-reviewed articles
"Party Discipline and Government Spending: Theory and Evidence," (with Galina Zudenkova), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 139-152
"Does Electoral Competition Curb Party Favoritism?" (with Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming 2018.
Instructions for computing the forcing variable can be found here.
"Voters' Responsiveness to Public Employment Policies," Public Choice, 2017, 170(1): 143–169.
"Pork-Barrel Politics in Semi-Democracies: The Spanish 'Parliamentary Roads", 1880-1914," (with Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Albert Solé-Ollé), The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72(3): 771-796.
"Does Electoral Competition Curb Party Favoritism?" (with Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming 2018.
Instructions for computing the forcing variable can be found here.
"Voters' Responsiveness to Public Employment Policies," Public Choice, 2017, 170(1): 143–169.
"Pork-Barrel Politics in Semi-Democracies: The Spanish 'Parliamentary Roads", 1880-1914," (with Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Albert Solé-Ollé), The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72(3): 771-796.
Working papers
"Partisan targeting of inter-governmental transfers & state interference in local elections: evidence from Spain", (with A. Solé-Ollé and P. Sorribas-Navarro), 2012 IEB WP 2012/031.
"Passing the buck? Central and sub-national governments in times of fiscal stress", (with R. Ahrend, and C. Vammalle), OECD Regional Development WP 2013/05.
"Passing the buck? Central and sub-national governments in times of fiscal stress", (with R. Ahrend, and C. Vammalle), OECD Regional Development WP 2013/05.
Work in progress
- "The education of politicians: Effects on performance and fiscal policy" (with Aina Gallego)
- "Feed the Executive Board: Corporate Governance and International Food Aid" (with Andreas Fuchs)
