Department
of
Royal
Holloway
Welcome to the homepage of Cecilia Testa
I am a senior lecturer in the Economics Department at Royal
Holloway University of London
Contact:
On sabbatical leave
(2009-2010)
Education
PhD in
Dottorato in Economia Pubblica
(PhD in Public
MSc in
Laurea (BSc) in
Research Interests
Political economy, Public economics,
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
Bicameralism and corruption
(2009),
Who is against a Common Market?, joint with Giovanni Facchini, (2008) Journal of the European Economic
Association, forthcoming
Fiscal
Decentralization, inequality and bailout: lessons from Brazil’s debt crisis
(2007), joint with
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
Do small
states get more federal monies? Myth and reality about the US Senate Malapportionment, joint with
Do
Candidates serve party interests? Party polarization as a discipline device,
Royal Holloway Discussion Paper series, 2003
Testing Models of
Distributive politics using exit polls to measure voter preferences and
partisanship, joint with Valentino and Jim Snyder, PEPP/19 April
2006
Reforming State
legislatures: is one house better than two?, joint
with
Local finance responsiveness to federal
transfers: the role of debt, joint with Umberto
Galmarini and Leo Rizzo, 2007
Referee for academic journals
American Economic Review, Constitutional Political
Economy, Economic Journal, Economic Theory,
Other
affilitiations
STICERD (London School of Economics)
