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Contact:
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- Fax: +31-(0)10 4089161
- Email: ctesta@ese.eur.nl
Education
PhD in Economics,
Dottorato in Economia Pubblica
(PhD in Public Economics), University of Salerno
MSc in Economics, DELTA
(Paris)
Laurea (BSc) in Economics, Bocconi
University (Milan)
Research Interests
Political economy, Public
economics, Economics of Transition , Applied microeconomics
Teaching
EC3331: political economy
– lecture notes and seminars: click here!
EC5510: microeconomics - lecture notes and
seminars: click here!
EC1111: International Economic Policy - lecture
notes and seminars: click here!
EC2252: comparative and transition economics - lecture notes
and seminars :click here!
Publications
Testing
Models of Distributive politics using exit polls to measure voter preferences
and partisanship, joint with Valentino Larcinese and Jim Snyder, accepted by The British journal of Political Science
Bicameralism
and corruption (2010), European Economic Review, Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages
181-198
Who is against a Common Market?, joint
with Giovanni Facchini,
(2009) Journal of the European Economic
Association, Vol. 7, No. 5, Pages 1068-1100
Fiscal Decentralization, inequality and bailout:
lessons from Brazil’s debt crisis (2008), joint with Giovanni Facchini (
The Allocation of the US Federal Budget to the States: The Impact of the
President (2006), joint with Valentino Larcinese and Leo Rizzo, Journal of
Politics, volume 68, issue 2 (may)
Reform,
lobbies and welfare: a common agency approach (2005), Public Choice, vol.
125(3), pages 305-337, December
Working papers
The
rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal immigration
(2010), joint with Giovanni Facchini, CEPR WP 8245, VOX Column
Changing needs, sticky budget: Evidence
from the Geographic Distribution of US Federal Grants (2010), joint with Valentino Larcinese
and Leo Rizzo, revise and resubmit,
National Tax Journal
Is
polarization bad? (2009), revise and
resubmit, European Economic Review
Reforming State
legislatures: is one house better than two?, (2009) joint with Giovanni
Facchini, CESifo Working Paper Series
2659, CESifo Group Munich
Do small
states get more federal monies? Myth and reality about the US Senate
Malapportionment, joint with Valentino Larcinese and Leo Rizzo (2007)
Local finance responsiveness to federal
transfers: the role of debt, joint with Umberto
Galmarini and Leo Rizzo, 2007
Do
Candidates serve party interests? Party polarization as a discipline device,
Royal Holloway Discussion Paper series, 2003
Referee for academic journals
American
Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Constitutional Political
Economy, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Journal
of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Public Choice, Review of Economics
Studies, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Rivista di Politica Economica,
Social Choice and Welfare, Southern Economic Journal
Other affilitiations
STICERD (London School of Economics)
Fellow, Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano
Research
Fellow, Tinbergen Institute
