Jon X. Eguia
Email: [email protected]
Web: econ.msu.edu/faculty/eguia
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2014–
Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University.
2013–
Reader in Economics, Univ. Bristol (on leave Spring 2015).
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA), PhD in Social Science, 2007.
SELECTED PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS
2007–2014 Assistant Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
13. “Legislative Bargaining with Endogenous Rules” with K. Shepsle. Journal of Politics,
forthcoming.
12. “Asset Pricing and Asymmetric Reasoning” with E. Asparouhova, P. Bossaerts and W. Zame
(2015). Journal of Political Economy 123(1): 66-122.
11. “The Origin of Parties: Theory, and Evidence from the United States Congress 1789–1797”
(2013). Economics & Politics 25(3): 313-334.
10. “On the Spatial Representation of Preference Profiles” (2013). Economic Theory 52(1):
103-128.
9. “A Spatial Theory of Party Formation” (2012). Economic Theory 49(3): 549-570.
8. “Voting Blocs, Party Discipline and Party Formation” (2011). Games and Economic
Behavior 73(1): 111-135.
7. “Foundations of Spatial Preferences” (2011). Journal of Mathematical Economics 47(2):
200-205.
6. “Endogenous Parties in an Assembly” (2011). American Journal of Political Science 55(1):
16-26.
5. “Utility Representations of Risk Neutral Preferences in Multiple Dimensions” (2009).
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4(4): 379-385.
4. “Cohesion, Insurance and Redistribution,” with F. Echenique (2007). Quarterly Journal of
Political Science 2(4): 287-305.
3. “Citizen Candidates under Uncertainty” (2007). Social Choice and Welfare 29(2): 317-331.
2. “United We Vote” (2007). Journal of Public Economic Theory 9(4): 1-33.
1. “Contested Elections in a Citizen Candidate Model” (2006). Economics & Politics 18: 95102.
— Jon X Eguia, CV —
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED WORKING PAPERS
– “Information and Targeted Spending” with Antonio Nicolò. Under 2nd round review at the
International Economic Review.
– “Discrimination and Assimilation.” Revision requested by the American Economic Review
(under revision).
– “Corrigendum to ‘Generalized Risk Dominance and Asymmetric Dynamics’ [JET 145(1): 216248 (2010)],” with Marcin Peski. (2014). Journal of Economic Theory 154: 668-669.
– “A comment on choice rules and median outcomes,” with F. Giovannoni, in G. Caballero and N.
Schofield (editors), Political Economy of Governance: Institutions, Democracy and Elections.
Springer, forthcoming.
– “Challenges to the Standard Euclidean Spatial Model,” in G. Caballero, D. Kselman and N.
Schofield (editors), Advances in Political Economy. Springer, 2013.
– “On the Distribution of Particularistic Goods,” with Antonio Nicolò, in G. Caballero and N.
Schofield (editors), The Political Economy of Democratic Institutions. Springer, 2011.
– “Forming Voting Blocs,” in E. Aragones, C. Bevia, H. Llavador and N. Schofield (editors), The
Political Economy of Democracy. Bilbao, Fundación BBVA, 2009.
SELECTED GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2014: Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, €100,000 (accepted only €16,000).
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Editorial Service
-2014-15: Guest Editor (with Gergely Ujhelyi), special issue on Political Economy. Games.
 Conference Organization
-2011: Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Program Committee Member:
Formal Modeling Section Head. Chicago, IL.
-2010: Urrutia Elejalde Workshop on Information, Dynamics and Political Decision Making,
Co-organizer with Salvador Barberà and Matthew Jackson. Barcelona, Spain.
 Selected Invited Presentations
-2014: SITE. Dynamics of Collective Decision Making. Stanford, CA.
-2012: NBER Summer Institute Political Economy Meeting. Cambridge, MA.
-2007: Wallis Conference on Political Economy, Rochester, NY.
-2006-15: Invited talks at Berkeley, Caltech, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard/MIT, LSE,
Michigan, Northwestern, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and several others.
Latest update May 24th, 2015.
2