Economic theory, game theory, political economy, experimental economics
Cesar Martinelli is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and an Economic Theory fellow. He is currently an advisory editor for Games and Economic Behavior and a past editor for Social Choice and Welfare. He has published numerous articles in professional journals, including The Review of Economic Studies, The Economic Journal, Theoretical Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, The Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Micro, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The International Economic Review, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, The Journal of Public Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Public Choice, and others. Before joining George Mason, he held faculty appointments at ITAM and at Carlos IIII University in Madrid. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (2011) and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Rochester (1997-1998). He obtained a PhD in economics at UCLA in 1993 and a BA in social sciences (economics) at the Catholic University of Peru in 1987.
Currently working on electoral accountability and corruption, evidence and experiments (with Janneth Leyva, Naila Sebastian), elections (with David Levine), search (with David Austen-Smith), price controls (with Edgar Castro and Hugo Diaz), market games in the lab (with Dan Houser, Thomas Stratmann, Weiwei Zheng, Jianxin Wang, Arthur Dolgopolov), political economy of media (with Jaideep Roy).
Accountability and Grand Corruption, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2022)
Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy, with John Duggan, Economic Journal, vol. 130: 675–715 (2020)
Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment, with Susan W. Parker, Ana Cristina Pérez-Gea, and Rodimiro Rodrigo, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 10: 298–325 (2018)
The Political Economy of Dynamic Elections: Accountability, Commitment and Responsiveness, with John Duggan, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 55: 916–984 (2017)
A Spatial Theory of Media Slant and Voter Choice, with John Duggan, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 78: 640–666 (2011)
1987 BA in Social Sciences (Economics), Catholic University of Peru
1991 MA in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
1993 PhD in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
“Razor-Thin Elections.” 5th ETH Zurich Workshop on Political Economy. 2022.
“Razor-Thin Elections.” David Austen-Smith retirement conference (Northwestern). 2022.
“Razor-Thin Elections.” Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Mexico). 2022.
“Accountability and Grand Corruption,” Public Choice Meetings. 2022.
“Corruption and Reciprocity,” APEE Meetings. 2022.
Interviews about corruption and political campaigns in Peru:
Revista Caretas (December 2, 2019)
Diario El Comercio (November 28, 2019)
Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment, with Susan W. Parker, Ana Cristina Pérez-Gea, and Rodimiro Rodrigo, featured in AEA Research Highlights (March 5, 2018)
Deception and Misreporting in a Social Program, with Susan W. Parker, featured in:
New York Times blog Freakonomics (June 23, 2008)
Radio program The Takeaway (June 24, 2008)
Artur Dolgopolov, Dynamic Games, Social Preferences, and Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments (2020)
Weiwei Zheng, Three Essays on Market Institutions (2020)
Mikhail Freer, Essays on Preference Extensions (2017)