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Professor Gabriele Gratton

Professor Gabriele Gratton

Professor

PhD in Economics, Boston University, 2011

MSc in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006

BA (Laurea) in Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', 2005

Business School
School of Economics

is Professor of Politics and Economics in the UNSW Business School and an ARC Future Fellow.His research focuses on information asymmetries and communication in politics and organisations. Through his research, Gabriele Gratton aims to understand how the institutions and technologies controlling the transmission of information affect election campaigns and policymaking. More broadly, he is interested in the design of democratic institutions capable to withstand negative economic and social shocks. Visit theԻto learn more.

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E-mail
g.gratton@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 470A, UNSW Business School building
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Fourati M; Gratton G; Masera F, 2023, 'Politics, Religion and the Evolution of the Welfare State', in The Economics of Religion, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp. 111 - 133,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Gratton G; Lee BE, 2024, 'Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies', Review of Economic Studies, 91, pp. 340 - 371,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gratton G; Lee BE, 2023, 'Drain the Swamp: A Theory of Anti-Elite Populism', SSRN Electronic Journal,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gratton G; Morelli M, 2023, 'Erratum to: OPTIMAL CHECKS AND BALANCES UNDER POLICY UNCERTAINTY (International Economic Review, (2022), 63, 2, (549-569), 10.1111/iere.12547)', International Economic Review, 64, pp. 871,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gratton G; Holden R; Lee BE, 2022, 'Political Capital', Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 38, pp. 632 - 674,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gratton G; Morelli M, 2022, 'OPTIMAL CHECKS AND BALANCES UNDER POLICY UNCERTAINTY', International Economic Review, 63, pp. 549 - 569,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Gratton G; Guiso L; Michelacci C; Morelli M, 2021, 'From weber to kafka: Political instability and the overproduction of laws', American Economic Review, 111, pp. 2964 - 3003,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Gratton G; Zudenkova G, 2020, 'Introduction to the special issue political games: Strategy, persuasion, and learning', Games, 11,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Fourati M; Gratton G; Grosjean P, 2019, 'Render unto Caesar: Taxes, charity, and political Islam', European Economic Review, 119, pp. 114 - 146,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Ghosh S; Gratton G; Shen C, 2019, 'INTIMIDATION: LINKING NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT', International Economic Review, 60, pp. 1589 - 1618,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Holden R; Gratton G; Kolotilin A, 2018, 'When to Drop a Bombshell', Review of Economic Studies, 85, pp. 2139 - 2172,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Bouton L; Gratton G, 2015, 'Majority runoff elections: Strategic voting and Duverger's hypothesis', Theoretical Economics, 10, pp. 283 - 314,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gratton G; Kolotilin A, 2015, 'Euclidean fairness and efficiency', Economic Inquiry, 53, pp. 1689 - 1690,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gratton G, 2015, 'The sound of silence: Political accountability and libel law', European Journal of Political Economy, 37, pp. 266 - 279,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Gratton G, 2014, 'Book Review - Collective Action and Exchange: A Game Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson. Stanford UP (2013). 448 pp., $49.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780804770040 (paper)', Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, pp. 192 - 193,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Gratton G, 2014, 'Pandering and electoral competition', Games and Economic Behavior, 84, pp. 163 - 179,
    Journal articles |
    Fourati M; Gratton G; Grosjean PA, 'Render Unto Caesar: Taxes, Charity, and Political Islam', SSRN Electronic Journal,
  • Reports | 2015
    Gratton G; Holden R; Kolotilin A, 2015, Timing Information Flows, 2015-16,
    Preprints |
    Bouton L; Gratton G, Majority Runoff Elections: Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis,
    Preprints |
    Ghosh S; Gratton G; Shen C, Intimidation: Linking Negotiation and Conflict,
    Preprints |
    Gratton G; Holden R; Kolotilin A, Timing Information Flows,
    Preprints |
    Gratton G; Lee BE, Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies,
  • Media | 2019
    Gratton G, 2019, Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster, ,
    Media | 2019
    Gratton G, 2019, Rate cuts might hurt, as well as help. What if this man didn’t need to do as much?, ,
    Media | 2018
    Gratton G; Holden R, 2018, Can Australia avoid Europe’s populist fate?
    Media | 2018
    Gratton G; Holden R, 2018, QuItaly is Now a Real Possibility,
    Media | 2018
    Gratton G, 2018, The many ways Australia isn’t as pro-trade as we claim, ,
    Media | 2017
    Gratton G; Holden R, 2017, Labor Should Take Heed
    Media | 2016
    Gratton G; Grosjean P; Fourati M, 2016, Voting Islamist: It's the economy, stupid, ,

ARC Future Fellowship: ($1,013,480) "Resilient Democracy for the 21st Century:, 2022-2025

UNSW Scientia Program: ($160,000), 2019-2022

BSRG: ($24,852) “Political Reputation and the Evolution of Bureaucracy, 2018

ARC Discovery Project: ($139,000) “Legitimacy and Representation: A Comprehensive Study of Electoral Systems and Strategic Voting Behaviour”, 2014–2016 (with Carlos Pimienta and Marco Faravelli)

ASB Research Grant: ($7,100) “Media, Defamation, and Corruption”, 2013/2014

ASB Research Grant: ($9,058) “Understanding Terrorism: Fear and Reputation”, 2012

ASB Travel Grants, 2012-2013

Special Research Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2010

Summer Research Grant, Boston University, Summer 2010

Travel Grant, Boston University IED, Summer 2010

Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE), 2021

UNSW Business School Outstanding Research Award (Associate Professor), 2019

UNSW Business School Non-Professorial Research Achievement Award 2014

My Research Supervision

Barton E. Lee: www.bartonelee.com

Ian Hoefer Martí

My Teaching