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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mariano Tommasi is affiliated with the University of San Andrés in Argentina and has conducted research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans various subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, and General Health Professions.

The research topics they focus on include:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies

Among recent publications where Mariano Tommasi contributed as an author are:

  • Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America, 2023, Economía
  • El impacto del COVID-19 en la desigualdad y la pobreza en México, 2021, Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México
  • Are Budget Neutral Income Floors Fiscally Viable in Sub-Saharan Africa?, 2023, Journal of African Economies
  • Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America, 2025, Oxford Open Economics
  • Universal Basic Income, Taxes, and the Poor, 2022, LSE Public Policy Review

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mariano Tommasi include:

  • Nora Lustig
  • Guido Neidhöfer
  • Carola Pessino
  • Jon Jellema

The venues where Mariano Tommasi most frequently publishes are:

  • Economía
  • Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México
  • Oxford Open Economics
  • Journal of African Economies
  • LSE Public Policy Review

Mariano Tommasi has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2011 and the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System

    Mark P. Jones;Sebastian Saiegh;Pablo T. Spiller;Mariano Tommasi

  • The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina

    Pablo T. Spiller;Mariano Tommasi

  • When does it take a Nixon to go to China

    A. Cukierman;M. Tommasi

  • Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998

    Matias Iaryczower;Pablo T. Spiller;Mariano Tommasi

  • La política de las políticas públicas

    Ernesto Stein;Mariano Tommasi

  • Politics, institutions, and fiscal performance in a federal system: an analysis of the Argentine provinces

    Mark P Jones;Pablo Sanguinetti;Mariano Tommasi

  • Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America

    Fabiana Machado;Carlos Scartascini;Mariano Tommasi

  • La era de la productividad: Cómo transformar las economías desde sus cimientos

    Manuel R. Agosin;Juan Pablo Atal;Juan S. Blyde;Matías Busso

  • The Institutions of Regulation: An Application to Public Utilities

    Pablo T. Spiller;Mariano Tommasi

  • Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies

    Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Carlos Scartascini

  • Where are we in the political economy of reform

    Mariano Tommasi;Andrés Velasco

  • Centralization vs. Decentralization: A Principal-Agent Analysis

    Mariano Tommasi;Federico Weinschelbaum

  • Federalism in Argentina and the Reforms of the 1990s

    Mariano Tommasi

  • The Political Economy of Reform

    Federico Sturzenegger;Mariano Tommasi

  • POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, POLICYMAKING PROCESSES, AND POLICY OUTCOMES AN INTERTEMPORAL TRANSACTIONS FRAMEWORK *

    Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto Stein;Mariano Tommasi

  • The Politics of Federalism in Argentina and its Implications for Governance and Accountability

    Martín Ardanaz;Marcelo Carlos César Leiras;Mariano Tommasi

  • WHY IS ARGENTINA'S FISCAL FEDERALISM SO INEFFICIENT? ENTERING THE LABYRINTH *

    Sebastián M. Saiegh;Mariano Tommasi

  • Fiscal Federalism in Argentina: Policies, Politics, and Institutional Reform

    Mariano Tommasi;Sebastian Saiegh;Pablo Sanguinetti

  • Inflation and Relative Prices Evidence from Argentina

    Mariano Tommasi

  • The new economics of human behavior

    Mariano Tommasi;Kathryn Ierulli;Gary Becker

  • How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Mark P. Jones

  • Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

    Mark P. Jones;Osvaldo Meloni;Mariano Tommasi

  • The Consequences of Price Instability on Search Markets: Toward Understanding the Effects of Inflation

    Mariano Tommasi

  • Intergovernmental transfers and fiscal behavior insurance versus aggregate discipline

    Pablo Sanguinetti;Mariano Tommasi

  • Politics, Institutions, and Public-Sector Spending in the Argentine Provinces

    Mark P Jones;Pablo Sanguinetti;Mariano Tommasi

  • COMING TOGETHER: THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF FEDERALISM *

    Matías Iaryczower;Sebastián Saiegh;Mariano Tommasi

  • Judicial Decision Making in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998

    Mariano Tommasi;Matias Iaryczower;Pablo T. Spiller

  • Congressional Institutionalization: A Cross‐National Comparison

    Valeria Palanza;Carlos Scartascini;Mariano Tommasi

  • Fiscal Rules for Subnational Governments. Some organizing principles and Latin American experiences

    Mariano Tommasi;Miguel Braun

  • Political Institutions, Actors, and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto Stein;Mariano Tommasi

  • Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America

    Mariano Tommasi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Mark P. Jones
Mark P. Jones Rice University
Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University
Federico Sturzenegger
Federico Sturzenegger University of San Andrés
Sebastian Galiani
Sebastian Galiani University of Maryland, College Park
Laurence Whitehead
Laurence Whitehead University of Oxford
Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University

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