Political Economics (PhD + AMC)

• Slides for the Lecture

   

  Chapter 2:	Preferences and Voting	[download]
  Chapter 3:	Electoral Competition	[download]
  Chapter 4:	Voter Turnout	[download]
  Compulsory      Reading:	Merlo, A. (2005), Whither Political Economy? Theories, Facts and Issues, PIER Working Paper No. 05-033. Feddersen, T. and W. Pesendorfer (1996), The Swing Voter’s Curse, American Economic Review, 86, 404-424. Battaglini, M, R. Morton, and T. Palfrey (2005), The Swing Voter’s Curse in the Laboratory, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5458.
  Chapter 5:	Agency - Part 1	[download]
  	Agency - Part 2	[download]
  Compulsory      Reading:	Polo, M. (1998): Electoral Competition and Political Rents, IGIER Working Paper No. 144;
  Chapter 6:	Rent Seeking	[download]
  Chapter 7:	Partisan Politicians	[download]
  Chapter 8:	Special Interest Politics	[download]
  Compulsory      Reading:	Persson and Tabellini (2000), chapter 7 Grossman and Helpman (2001), chapters 4.1 & 5.1

• Problem Sets

   

  Problem Set #1	[download]
  Problem Set #2	[download]
  Problem Set #3	[download]
  Problem Set #4 (Agency)	[download]
  Problem Set #5 (Partisan)	[download]

• Core-Reference

  Persson, T. and G. Tabellini  (2000), “Political Economics – Explaining Economic Policy,’’ MIT Press.

  Grossman, G.M. and E. Helpman (2001), "Special Interest Politics", MIT Press.

• Lecture notes (previous semester)

Lecture Notes:   1) One-dimensional voting (Script, Slides, Excercise)

                        2) Multi-dimensional voting (Script, Slides, Excercise)

                        3) Voter turnout (Script, Slides)

                        4) Agency models: Lecture 1 and 2, 3, 4