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About Mauricio Bugarin

Mauricio Soares Bugarin is full professor at the Economics Department of the University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and is currently Leader of the Economics and Politics Research Group (CNPq-UnB). From 2006 to 2011 he was full professor of Economics at Insper Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, where he served as the director of undergraduate studies in Economics and created the joint degree program in Economics and Business Administration. Prof. Bugarin is a research fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Latin American Chapter of the Econometric Society from 2007 to 2011. He has produced numerous research articles published in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Oxford Academic Papers, Public Choice, and Social Choice and Welfare; a book on the control of public expenditure in Brazil published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; several academic book chapters; and has received several academic prizes including Brazilian National Treasure Secretariat Prizes (Public Finance), a National Health Economics Prize, and the Haralambos Simeonides Prize for the best article in Economics published in a year by a Brazilian author. Prof. Bugarin’s main interests include public economics, public finance and the relationship between economics and politics. He regularly teaches PhD courses in game theory and mechanism design, the economics of incentives and information and positive political economics.

Deadline for paper submission to the First Annual Meeting of the EPRG

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

First Annual Meeting of the Economics and Politics Research Group Saturday, September 21, 2013 10am – 4pm IPOL/UnB Dear member of the Economics and Politics Research Group, EPRG. We will be receiving submissions for the First Annual Meeting of the … Continue reading →

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Working paper 24/2013 now available!

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

O Economics and Politics (CNPq) Research Group em conjunto com o Centro de Estudos em Regulação de Mercados (CERME), o Centro de Investigação em Economia e Finanças (CIEF), o Laboratório de Pesquisa em Comportamento Político, Instituições e Políticas Públicas (LAPCIPP) … Continue reading →

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Call for papers for the First Annual Meeting of the EPRG

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

First Annual Meeting of the Economics and Politics Research Group Saturday, September 21, 2013 10am – 4pm IPOL/UnB Dear member of the Economics and Politics Research Group, EPRG. We are now receiving submissions for the First Annual Meeting of the … Continue reading →

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Working paper No. 23/2013 now available!

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

O Economics and Politics (CNPq) Research Group em conjunto com o Centro de Estudos em Regulação de Mercados (CERME), o Centro de Investigação em Economia e Finanças (CIEF), o Laboratório de Pesquisa em Comportamento Político, Instituições e Políticas Públicas (LAPCIPP) … Continue reading →

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Prof. Gil Riella’s publication at the Journal of Economic Theory

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

We are proud to announce that professor Gil Riella’s article “Preference for Flexibility and Dynamic Consistency” has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Theory, JET. JET has been consistently classified as one of the top 10 journals … Continue reading →

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Working papers 21/2013 and 22/2013 available now

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

Working papers 21/2013 and 22/2013 have been published. Please check here to see all published working papers and download their content. 21/2013 08-07-2013 A Note on Equivalent Comparisons of Information Channels, Luís Fernando Brands Barbosa and Gil Riella 22/2013 08-14-2013 … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the first 20 working papers!

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

The Economics and Politics Research Group started publishing its members’ research online on June 12, 2013. Since that date, at least one new working paper has been published every Wednesday. This Wednesday July 31st we published our 20th working paper. … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers and Invitation to Training Course LACEA IMPACT EVALUATION NETWORK (IEN)

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

Call for Papers and Invitation to Training Course Seventh Meeting IMPACT EVALUATION NETWORK (IEN) at Group for the Analysis of Development – GRADE, Lima Peru October 25th and 26th, 2013 We thank prof. Christian Lehmann for the information. Please check … Continue reading →

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Deadlines for ANPEC & SBE annual meetings approaching!

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

The submission deadline for the ANPEC and SBE meetings is July 22, 2013, this Monday. Please check the corresponding links at our new academic Events page.

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Evento Internacional Extraordinário-Seminários

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Mauricio Bugarin

O Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), o Centro de Investigação em Economia e Finanças (CIEF), o Centro de Estudos em Regulação de Mercados (CERME), Laboratório de Pesquisa em Comportamento Político (LAPCIPP) e o Programa de Mestrado em Economia do … Continue reading →

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