“Re-Election Through Division,” with Massimo Morelli, Columbia University. Friday, April 26, 3:40 PM-5 PM, 368A Heady Hall.

Massimo Morelli is a professor of political science and a professor of economics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1996, has been a research fellow at the Center for Operation Research and Econometrics in 1997, has taught at Iowa State University, University of Minnesota and Ohio State University, and has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In economic theory, he has made contributions to coalition and network formation, market games, bargaining theory and the theory of contracts. His main political economy contributions have been on party formation, electoral systems, international organizations, legislative bargaining theory and experiments, politicians' incentives in institutional reforms and constitutional design. His most recent research projects on the rational choice approach to conflict include the role of natural resources and geography, dispute resolution mechanisms, mediation and strategic militarization. In terms of institutional design, he is working on transparency, quorum rules, separation of powers and optimal organization design in the presence of career concerns.

This seminar is provided by a generous gift from George A. Fuller, a native of Muscatine, Iowa, who received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Iowa State University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Iowa. His career included work in the export and transportation industries, time in the Air Force as a flyer and a transportation economist, extensive travel and teaching, and numerous awards. He received a Danforth Fellowship at Harvard and was a Fulbright's lecturer and a visiting professor at the Swedish School of Economics and the Helsinki School of Economics. He taught at the USDA Graduate School, the University of Iowa, UCLA, USC, University of North Carolina, and the University of Utah. He studied economic conditions in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Dr. Fuller's career truly spanned the practice and theory of economics.