Cecilia Testa
Professor
University of Nottingham
Publications & Working Papers
Work in progress
Race, Representation and Local Governments in the US South: the effect of the Voting Rights Act , joint with Andrea Bernini and Giovanni Facchini, (2023), the Journal of Political Economy, volume 131. Press Release.
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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion (2021), joint with Roberto Bonfatti, Giovanni Facchini, Alexander Tarasov, Gianluca Tedeschi, CEPR DP16462.
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The Franchise, Policing and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act (2019), joint with Giovanni Facchini and Brian Knight, NBER WP 27463, revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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Asylum policy and illegal immigration: perspectives and challenges (2016), joint with Giovanni Facchini and Alessandra Casarico, Cesifo DICE report.
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The political economy of migration enforcement: domestic versus border control (2015), joint with Giovanni Facchini, Cesifo Economic Studies, Symposium on Migration Policy.
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Why do small states receive more federal monies? US Senate representation and the allocation of federal budget (2013), Lead article Economics and Politics, Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 257-514.
Changing needs, sticky budget: Evidence from the Geographic Distribution of US Federal Grants (2013), joint with Valentino Larcinese and Leo Rizzo, National Tax Journal, 66, Pages 311-342.
Testing the Swing Voter Hypothesis Using Federal Spending in the US States (2013), joint with Valentino Larcinese and James M. Snyder Jr., The British Journal of Political Science,43,pages 845-875.
Is Polarization Bad? (2012), European Economic Review, Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages 1104-1118.
Bicameralism and Corruption (2010), European Economic Review, Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 181-198. Reprinted in Design of Constitution (2012), by Stefan Voight, Economic Approaches to Law Series, R. Posner and F. Parisi eds., Edward Elgar Publishing.
The Political Economy of Public Spending: Evidence from the US States (2010), joint with James Snyder and Valentino Larcinese, in Public Choice and Political Economy, pp. 143-163, Fabio Padovano & Alessandro Petretto (eds.), Franco Angeli
Who’s against a Common Market? (2009), joint with Giovanni Facchini, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 7, No. 5, Pages 1068-1100
Fiscal Decentralization, Inequality and Bailout: Lessons from Brazil’s Debt Crisis (2008), joint with Giovanni Facchini, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 48 (2), Pages 333-344.
Allocating the US Federal Budget to the States: The Impact of the President (2006), joint with Valentino Larcinese and Leo Rizzo, Journal of Politics 68 (2): Pages 447-456.
Reform, Lobbies and Welfare: a common agency approach (2005), Public Choice, 125, 3-4: Pages 305-337.
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