Ruben Durante
Professor
Department of Economics
University Pompeu Fabra
Spain
Biography
Personal Citizenship: Italian Information Academic Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament d’Economia i Empresa Positions Associate Professor (without tenure): September 2016 - Sciences Po, Department of Economics Associate Professor (without tenure): September 2013 - (on leave) Assistant Professor: September 2010 - August 2013 Other Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK Affiliations Research Affiliate, Public Economics Program: July 2015- Centre for Economic Research and its Applications (CEPREMAP), Paris, France Research Associate, Public Finance Program: June 2013- Visiting Brown University, Department of Economics: Summer 2015 Positions Yale University, Dep. of Economics and Leitner Political Economy Program: academic year 2013-14 University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: December 2013 Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm: May 2013 Education Ph.D. Economics, Brown University, 2010 M.A. Economics, Brown University, 2005 M.A. Political Economy, Universit´e de Paris I Panth´eon-Sorbonne, 2002 B.A. Economics, Universit`a degli Studi di Messina, 2001 Honors Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and Awards Research Grant (2016-17) Yale University, Georg W. Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Visiting Scholar Fellowship (academic year 2013-14)
Research Interest
Political Economics, Media Economics, Experimental Economics, Economic Growth and Development
Publications
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Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (with P. Buonanno, P. Vanin and G. Prarolo) The Economic Journal, 2015, vol. 125, n. 586.
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Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy (with S. DellaVigna, E. La Ferrara and B. Knight) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 8, n. 1
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Attack when the World is not Watching? U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with E. Zhuravskaya) Journal of Political Economy, accepted