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Marco Battaglini
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 125
Citations - 3937
Marco Battaglini is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public good & Debt. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 100 publications receiving 3535 citations. Previous affiliations of Marco Battaglini include Economic Policy Institute & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk
TL;DR: It is proved that what really matters in transmission of information is the local behavior of the utilities of the senders at the ideal point of the policy maker (receiver), not the distances between the ideal points of players.
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Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the dimensionality of the uncertain variable has an important qualitative impact on results and yields interesting insights into the'mechanics' of information transmission.
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A dynamic theory of public spending, taxation and debt
Marco Battaglini,Stephen Coate +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dynamic political economy theory of public spending, taxation and debt, where policy choices are made by a legislature consisting of representatives elected by geographically defined districts.
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Long-Term Contracting with Markovian Consumers
TL;DR: In this article, the optimal contract between a monopolist and a consumer whose preferences follow a Markov process is characterized, which is nonstationary and has infinite memory, but is described by a simple state variable.
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Inefficiency in Legislative Policymaking: A Dynamic Analysis
Marco Battaglini,Stephen Coate +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an infinite horizon model of public spending and taxation in which policy decisions are determined by legislative bargaining, and explore the dynamics of legislative policy choices, focusing on the efficiency of the steady-state level of