Helios Herrera Faculty at SIPA,   PhD in  Economics, New York University E-mail: hhh2108@columbia.edu

Curriculum Vitae, Bio

Teaching

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Information Economics, Math for Economics

Research

Political Economy, Financial Economics, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, Experimental Economics

Political Economy

Political Booms, Economic Crises (with Guillermo Ordonez and Christoph Trebesh) (new)

A Culture Based Theory of Fiscal Union Desirability (with Luigi Guiso and Massimo Morelli)

Turf Wars (with Michael Ting)

Turnout and Power Sharing (with Massimo Morelli and Thomas Palfrey) (job market paper)

A Theory of Learning and Coordination in the Presidential Primary System (with George Deltas and Mattias Polborn) (R&R at Review of Economic Studies)

Oligarchy, Democracy and State Capacity (with Cesar Martinelli) (Economic Theory, 2011)

Turnout and Quorum in Referenda (with Andrea Mattozzi) (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010)

Policy Platforms, Campaign Spending and Voter Participation (with David Levine and Cesar Martinelli) (Journal of Public Economics, 2008)

Group Formation and Voter Participation (with Cesar Martinelli) (Theoretical Economics, 2006)

Information Economics and Asset Pricing

A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Information Cascades (with Johannes Hörner)

Biased Social Learning (with Johannes Hörner) (Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming 2013)

Sorting in Risk-Aversion and Asset Price Volatility   (Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2005)

Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance

Advantageous Innovation and Imitation in the Underwriting Market for Corporate Securities (with Enrique Schroth) (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011)

Personal: "Il Mago" H.H.