GABRIEL KATZ
Graduate Student (4th year)
Humanities and Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology

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Academic Interests

• Political Methodology - Econometrics/Statistics, Experimental Methods
  

• Electoral/Political Behavior

• Comparative Politics 

• Political Economy

• Institutions, Party Systems, Political-Economic History

• "Structural cleaveages, electoral competition and partisan divide: a Bayesian multinomial probit analysis of Chile's 2005 election", with R. Michael Alvarez. Electoral Studies 28 (2009), pp. 177 - 189.

• "Correcting for Survey Misreport using Auxiliary Information: A Re-Examination  of Voter Turnout", with Jonathan N. Katz. Social Science Working Paper 1294, California Institute of Technology. Under R&R.

• "The not-so-popular branch: bicameralism as a counter-majoritarian device”, with Matias Iaryczower and Sebastian Saiegh. In progress.

• "Reassessing the Link between Voter Heterogeneity and Political Accountability:  A Latent Class Regression Model of Economic Voting", with Jonathan Katz. In progress.

• "A statistical model of abstention under compulsory voting." Social Science Working Paper 1290, California Institute of Technology. Under review.

• "Analyzing the impact of e-voting technologies on electoral outcomes: the case of Buenos Aires' 2005 Congressional Election", with R. Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar and Julia Pomares. In Electronic Voting 2008, Lecture Notes in Informatics 131, pp. 47-62. Bonn: Gesellschaft fur Informatik, 2008.

• "Assessing voters' attitudes towards electronic voting in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia's 2007 e-voting pilot", with R. Michael Alvarez, Ricardo Llamosa and Hugo E. Martinez. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-voting and identity, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5767, pp. 75-91. Bochum: Springer, 2008.

• "Assessing the impact of alternative voting technologies on multi-party elections: ballot designs, information effects and partisan biases", with R. Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar and Julia Pomares. Under Review.

• "Up to the promise: The Impact of Electronic Voting on Trust in the Election Process in Latin America", with R. Michael Alvarez and Julia Pomares. In Progress.

• "Policy-based abstention in Brazil's 2002 Presidential Election". Social Science Working Paper 1288, California Institute of Technology. 

• "An Internal Fuel Efficiency Credit Market Mechanism for Meeting the CAFE Standard: Internalizing a Regulation-Caused Externality", with Charles R. Plott. Social Science Working Paper 1297, California Institute of Technology.
  

• "A Statistical Model of Electoral Coordination: Explaining the Number of Parties and Legislative Lists in Uruguay", with Ines Levin. Under Review. 
  

• "An Experimental Study of Decentralized Matching”, with Federico Echenique and Leeat Yariv. In progress.

• "Sectoral Competitiveness of the Uruguayan Manufacturing Industry", with I. Terra, G. Bittencourt, R. Domingo, C. Estrades, A. Ons, and H. Pastori. Working Paper 22/05, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. 

• "Macroeconomic impacts of the reform of public services in Uruguay - A CGE analysis", with A. Forteza and I. Terra. Working Paper 21/05, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

• "Building a Social Accounting Matrix for Uruguay for the year 2000", with P. Barrenechea and H. Pastori. Working Paper 20/04, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

• "What to Imitate of the Small Successful Economies? An Argument Favoring a Policy and a Legislation of Competition in Uruguay", with A. Rius, Working Paper 08/04, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

• "Estimating a Risky Term Structure of Uruguayan Sovereign Bonds", with S. Frache. Working Paper 03/2004, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. 

• "Uruguay’s Trade Negotiations. Visions of Involved Agents". Working Paper 21/04, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

• "Who won with devaluation in Uruguay?", IEEM Review, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay, VI(3), December 2003.

• Co-author of the chapter "International Economy" of the "Quarterly Economic Perspectives Reports” of the Institute of Economics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. June, September and December 2002; March 2003.


• Collaborated (Econometric analysis) on the book "Uruguay 2002 – Understanding the Banking Crisis", Banda Oriental and Universidad de la República, Uruguay. September  2002.