Publications of Nicola Persico

      Political Economy

• "Campaign Spending Regulation in a Model of Redistributive Politics." Economic Theory 28(1) (May 2006): 95–124, with Nicolas Sahuguet.
  

• "A Drawback of Electoral Competition." Journal of the European Economic Association 3(4) (December 2005): 1318-48, with Alessandro Lizzeri.
  

• "Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, with an Application to Britain's 'Age of Reform'." Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(2) (May 2004): 707–65, with Alessandro Lizzeri.
  

• "Committee Design with Endogenous Information." Review of Economic Studies 71(1) (January 2004): 165-94.
  

• "The Provision of Public Goods under Alternative Electoral Incentives." American Economic Review 91(1) (March 2001): 225-39, with Alessandro Lizzeri.

      Economics of Discrimination

• "Generalising the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement, with an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita." The Economic Journal 116 (November 2006): F351-F367, with Petra Todd.
  

• "Detecting Bias: Using Statistical Evidence to Establish Intentional Discrimination in Racial Profiling Cases." University of Chicago Legal Forum, (2005): 217-35, with David Castleman.
  

• "Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security." The American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2005): 127-31, with Petra Todd.

• "The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height." Journal of Political Economy 112(5), (October 2004): 1019-53, with Andrew Postlewaite and Dan Silverman.
  

• "Racial Profiling, Fairness, and Effectiveness of Policing." American Economic Review 92(5) (December 2002): 1472-97.
  

• "Racial Bias in Motor-Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence." Journal of Political Economy 109(1) (February 2001): 203-29, with John Knowles and Petra Todd.

• "Information Acquisition in Auctions." Econometrica 68(1) (January 2000): 135-48.
  

• "Uniqueness and Existence of Equilibrium in Auctions with a Reserve Price." Games and Economic Behavior 30(1) (January 2000): 83-114, with Alessandro Lizzeri.