MATIAS IARYCZOWER
Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science
California Institute of Technology

	Research
	Classes
	Political Economy Workshop
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Research Interests

Positive Political Theory, Political Economy, Applied Game Theory

Papers 

• "The Value of Information in the Court. Get it Right, Get it Tight", with Matt Shum. Under Review.

• "The not-so-popular branch: Bicameralism as a Counter-Majoritarian Device", with Gabriel Katz and Sebastian Saiegh. Under Review.

• "On the Nature of Competition in Alternative Electoral Systems", with Andrea Mattozzi. Under Review.

• "Competitive Forces and Electoral Institutions in Proportional Representation Systems", with Andrea Mattozzi [COMING SOON!]

• "Strategic Voting in Sequential Committees". Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory.

• "Many Enemies, Much Honor? On the  Competitiveness of Elections in Proportional Representation Systems", with Andrea Mattozzi. In Aragones, E., Bevia, C., Llavador, H., Schofield, N., Eds., The Political Economy of Democracy, fundacion BBVA, 2008.

• "Contestable Leadership: Party Leaders as Principals and Agents". Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 3, No.3, October 2008, pp 203-225.

• "The Supreme Court," with Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi, in Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi (eds.), The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina: A Transaction Cost Approach, 2007, Cambridge University Press.

• "Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation", with Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi.  American Political Science Review, vol. 100, No. 1, Feb. 2006, Pp. 85-97.
  

• "Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments", with Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi.  American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 4. (Oct., 2002), pp. 699-716.

• "The Quality of Elected and Appointed Judges", with Matt Shum
• "Voting with Common Values: Legislatures", with M.Shum and G.Freitas
• "Politics in the Firm: Delegation and Contracts with Disagreement in Strategic Plans", with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
  
• "A Ranking of Unicameral and Bicameral Systems under Strategic Voting".
• "Choosing Records", with Andrea Mattozzi

Other Working Papers and Publications (In Spanish)

• "Coming Together. The Industrial Organization of Federalism". With Mariano Tommasi and Sebastian Saiegh. CEDI Working Paper No.30, 1999. (donwload)
  

• The Institutional Sources of Development in Argentina. Towards an Institutional Agenda. 2000. Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires  UNDP-CEDI. Project Directors: Mariano Tommasi and Pablo Spiller.
  

• "Federal Fiscal Institutions. A Reform Proposal", with Juan Sanguinetti and Mariano Tommasi. CEDI Working Paper No. 43, 2000. (download)
  

• "Institutions, Contracts, and Infrastructure Regulation in Argentina", with Manuel Abdala. CEDI Working Paper No. 15, 1998. (download)
  

• "Some Considerations about the Optimal Design of Federal Fiscal Institutions", with Mariano Tommasi and Sebastian Saiegh. Economica, XLIV, no.3, 1998. (download)

• "An Economic Analysis of Housing Policies in Argentina", with Marcela Cristini. Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica, XXXII Annual Meeting, vol. II, 1997.
  

Classes (Caltech)

• Industrial Organization, EC105
  

• Analyzing Legislatures, PS121
  

• Foundations of Political Economy, SS210
  

Political Economy Workshop @ Caltech

• See upcoming talks here
  

• Previous quarters