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Department of Economics, University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Mattias Polborn

Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Political economy, Microeconomics, Public economics

PhD

Economics, University of Munich, 1998

Selected Publications

  • "Competition between specialized candidates," with Stefan Krasa, American Political Science Review, 104 (4), November 2010, 745 -765.
  • "The binary policy model," with Stefan Krasa, Journal of Economic Theory, 145 (2), March 2010, 661-688.
  • “Is mandatory voting better than voluntary voting?,” with Stefan Krasa, Games and Economic Behavior, 66 (1), May 2009, 275-291.
  • “Positive and negative campaigning,” with David Yi. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 1 (2006), 351-371.
  • “Investment under uncertainty in dynamic conflicts,” Review of Economic Studies, vol. 73 (2006), 505-529.
  • “Primaries and the New Hampshire effect,” with Tilman Klumpp, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 (2006), 1073-1114.
  • “Voting on majority rules,” with Matthias Messner, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 71 (2004), 115-132.

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