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César Martinelli

George Mason University - Department of Economics

4400 University Drive

Fairfax, VA 22030

United States

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“  I am currently working on electoral accountability, market experiments, directed search, and revealed preference theory.  ”

Scholarly Papers (25)

Monetary and Fiscal History of Peru 1960-2017: Radical Policy Experiments, Inflation, and Stabilization

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2018-63
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2019
César Martinelli and Marco Vega
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Central Reserve Bank of Peru
Downloads 416 (174,010)
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Monetary and Fiscal History of Peru 1960-2010: Radical Policy Experiments, Inflation and Stabilization

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-21
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Aug 2018
César Martinelli and Marco Vega
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Central Reserve Bank of Peru
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Peru, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Hyperinflation, Economic History

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Economic Consequences of Mass Migration: The Venezuelan Exodus in Peru

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 May 2021
Cynthia Boruchowicz, César Martinelli and Susan W. Parker
University of Maryland, College Park, George Mason University - Department of Economics and University of Maryland, College Park
Downloads 412 (177,553)
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Price Information and Oligopolistic Competition with Seller Cost Uncertainty

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2025
César Martinelli and Ruolong Xiao
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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incomplete information, price dispersion, heterogeneous costs.

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Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-31
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 May 2015
John Duggan, John Duggan and César Martinelli
University of Rochester - Department of EconomicsUniversity of Rochester - Department of Political Science and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 201 (378,726)
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Elections, Responsive Democracy, Electoral Equilibrium

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Communication and Information in Games of Collective Decision: A Survey of Experimental Results

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-01
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Jan 2018
César Martinelli and Thomas R. Palfrey
George Mason University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 199 (382,358)
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collective action, voting games, preplay communication

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Competition and Cognition in the Market for Online News

Forthcoming, Journal of Management Information Systems, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 24-47
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 07 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2024
Abhishek Ray, Hossein Ghasemkhani and César Martinelli
George Mason University - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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online news, polarization, bias, engagement, cognition

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Accountability and Grand Corruption

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-26
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Jul 2020
César Martinelli
George Mason University - Department of Economics
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corruption, accountability, politician selection

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Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-32
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 May 2015
César Martinelli, Susan Parker, Ana Perez-Gea and Rodimiro Rodrigo
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - Division of Economics, New York University (NYU) and Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico
Downloads 162 (461,984)
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cheating, monetary incentives, directed link, directed network

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A Representation Theorem for General Revealed Preference

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-21
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2016
Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli
University of Essex, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 154 (482,968)
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Revealed Preference, Representation Theorem, rational closure

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An Algebraic Approach to Revealed Preference

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-28
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2020
Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli
University of Essex, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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revealed preference, GARP, rationalization

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Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-02
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2018
Mikhail Freer, César Martinelli and Siyu Wang
University of Essex, Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Wichita State University - W. Frank Barton School of Business - Department of Economics
Downloads 95 (721,228)
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collective experimentation, status quo bias

Collective Experimentation: A Laboratory Study

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Mar 2018
Mikhail Freer, César Martinelli and Siyu Wang
University of Essex, Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Wichita State University - W. Frank Barton School of Business - Department of Economics
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Political Economics of Broadcast Media

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-42
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Sep 2015
Alejandro Castañeda and César Martinelli
Centro De Estudios Económicos-Colegio De México and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Mass Media, political economics, political influence, welfare implications

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Optimal Exploration

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-25
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Sep 2018
David Austen-Smith and César Martinelli
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 137 (534,155)

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optimal sequencing of experimentation, multi-armed bandit problem, bandits, Pandora's Box, Sequential sampling

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Razor-Thin Elections

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 22-18
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2024
David Levine and César Martinelli
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 133 (547,695)

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paradox of voting, turnout, close elections, landslides, pivotal voting

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A Functional Approach to Revealed Preference

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-31
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Oct 2018
Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli
University of Essex, Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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revealed preference tests, sequential closures, monotone congruence, functional approach

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Price Information and Oligopolistic Competition with Seller Cost Uncertainty

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 24-28
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2025
Ruolong Xiao and César Martinelli
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 108 (649,907)

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oligopolistic competition, cost uncertainty, price information, consumer search.

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Competition with Indivisibilities and Few Traders

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-30
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Oct 2019
César Martinelli, Jianxin Wang and Weiwei Zheng
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science and Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
Downloads 102 (679,608)
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market game, market experiment, double auction, perfect competition

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Mood Swings, Media Coverage, and Elections

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-01
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2020
Saptarshi Ghosh, Nidhi Jain, César Martinelli and Jaideep Roy
Shiv Nadar University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Economics Department, University of Bath
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Price Distortions and Hoarding: An Experiment

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-45
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Dec 2023
Edgar Castro Mendez and César Martinelli
George Mason University - Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 98 (699,467)

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price controls, price distortions, hoarding, lab experiments

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Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Sep 2022
César Martinelli and Naila C. Sebastián Esandi
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC Barcelona Tech)
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electoral accountability, corruption

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Oligarchy, Democracy, and State Capacity

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 May 2021
Helios Herrera and César Martinelli
HEC Montreal and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 59 (970,490)
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state capacity, democratization, oligarchy

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Information and Participation in Social Programs

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6319
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
David P. Coady, César Martinelli and Susan Parker
International Monetary Fund (IMF), George Mason University - Department of Economics and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - Division of Economics
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Knowledge for Development, Housing & Human Habitats, Primary Education, Teaching and Learning, Economic Theory & Research

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Is Cheaper Democracy Better? The Odd-Electorate Paradox

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 26-02
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 May 2026
Hans Gersbach, E Kravchenko and César Martinelli
ETH Zurich - CER-ETH -Center of Economic Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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epistemic democracy, costly information acquisition, voting, majority rule, pivotality, equilibrium participation

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Responsive Democracy and Commercial Media

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 13 Sep 2022
Jaideep Roy, Nidhi Jain, Saptarshi Ghosh and César Martinelli
Economics Department, University of Bath, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Shiv Nadar University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 30 (1,318,317)

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Mood swings, Aggregate uncertainty, Commercial media, Electoral Monotonicity

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Price distortions and hoarding: An experiment

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 24 Apr 2026
Edgar Castro Mendez, César Martinelli and Nicholas Brown
affiliation not provided to SSRN, George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University
Downloads 6 (1,566,597)

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price controls, price distortions, hoarding, lab experiments