Michael Dorsch
Professor
Public Policy
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Michael Dorsch is an applied economist whose research and teaching interests are mainly in public economics and political economics. Michael's current research program investigates the political economy of distortionary economic policy, with a particular interest in the role of political and economic inequality. His work has appeared in interdisciplinary journals such as the European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Public Choice, and Social Sciences Quarterly.
Research Interest
Democratization, Political Economics, Institutions and Development, Applied Econometrics, Inequality, Pro-Environmental Behavior, Rational Choice.
Publications
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Rent seeking, revolutionary threat, and coups in non-democracies†(with P. Maarek – revision requested by Journal of Comparative Economics Journal of Comparative Economics)
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Democratization and the conditional dynamics of income distribution†(with P. Maarek – resubmission invited to American Political Science Review American Political Science Review).
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American dreamers: Perceptions of social mobility in the United States,†in Advances in Advances in Sociology Research Sociology Research, vol. 10: 207 – 220.
