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| Address: | Phone: 248-921-8316 |
| 107 Gardner Hall, CB #3305 | Email: tjmoore@email.unc.edu |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3305
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I am a 2012 Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research interests are in public economics, political economy, applied microeconomic theory, and industrial organization. My dissertation examines how, in representative democracies where policy decisions are made by a legislature, negotiations between political parties generate distortions in policy. Specifically, my job market paper considers how parties' unobservable actions (e.g., the party whip encourages certain voting behavior in private strategy sessions) generate inefficient political business cycles. In a second paper I consider how the proximity of an upcoming election affects the likelihood of legislative gridlock and extreme policy proposals. I am on the 2011-2012 job market and will attend the January AEA meetings in Chicago.
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