department of economics, maastricht university
I am an assistant professor in the AE1 section of the Economics Department at Maastricht University. I finished my PhD in 2009 at Yale University with a dissertation entitled "Interest Groups, Political Institutions and American Public Policy Development". My primary areas of research are political economy, historical economics and institutional economics. I am also interested in industrial and labor market regulation and competition policy. The (geographic) focus of my dissertation was the United States. I continue to be interested in North American institutions but am currently broadening the range of my research to include Latin America and Europe.