Contact Info

• Email: polborn@illinois.edu
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Associate Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Political economy, Microeconomics, Public economics

PhD

Economics, University of Munich, 1998

Selected Publications

• “Is mandatory voting better than voluntary voting?,” with Stefan Krasa, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.
• “Positive and negative campaigning,” with David Yi. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 1 (2006), 351-371.
• “Investment under uncertainty in dynamic conflicts,” Review of Economic Studies, vol. 73 (2006), 505-529.
• “Primaries and the New Hampshire effect,” with Tilman Klumpp, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 (2006), 1073-1114.
• “Voting on majority rules,” with Matthias Messner, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 71 (2004), 115-132.

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