Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D., Law and Economics, University of Bologna and Erasmus University Rotterdam
• M.A., Law and Economics, University of Hamburg and Ghent University
• B.S., Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Academic Positions

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, 2018-2019, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg
• Jean Monnet Fellow, 2012 – 2013, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Global Governance Program, European University Institute
• PostdocResearch Fellow. 2011 – 2012, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg
• Scholar in Residence, 2010, International Program in Law and Economics (IPLE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publications

Refereed Journals

• “A New Measure of Cross-National Corruption,” World Bank Economic Review doi: 10.1093/wber/lhv031 (2015), coauthored with Lucio Picci
• “Measuring Judicial Ideal Points in New Democracies: The Case of the Philippines,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 1.1:125-164 (2014), coauthored with Lucia Dalla Pellegrina and Nuno Garoupa
• “Testing the Logic of Strategic Defection: The Case of the Philippine Supreme Court, An Empirical Analysis 1986-2010,”Asian Journal of Political Science 21.2: 189-212 (2013), coauthored with Nuno Garoupa
• “Judicial Politics in Unstable Democracies: The Case of the Philippine Supreme Court, An Empirical Analysis, 1986-2010” Asian Journal of Law and Economics 3:1-37 (2012), coauthored with Nuno Garoupa.