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Robert J. Franzese. Jr.

Associate Professor
 Faculty Affiliate & Advisory Committee, Ctr. for European Studies
Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
Faculty Affiliate and Advisory Board, Center for European Studies, International Institute
Advisory Board, European Union Center, International Institute
Ph.D., Harvard

4256 ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 936-1850
franzese@umich.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:


Professor Franzese's research interests center on the comparative and international political economy of developed democracies. More precisely, his work has focused on how political and economic (a) institutions (e.g., electoral & governmental systems, central bank independence, labor-market organization, etc.), (b) structure (e.g., income distribution, party-system polarization and fractionalization), and (c) circumstances/events (e.g., elections, terms-of-trade shocks, etc.) affect macroeconomic policymaking: its character and its efficacy. His approach to this substantive area is interdisciplinary (with economics), positive (i.e., as opposed to normative), and empirically minded. To date, this research agenda has produced several journal articles and conference and working papers on the monetary- and fiscal-policy effects of, for example, participation, representation, veto actors, delegation, central bank independence, wage bargaining institutions, and international context and institutions. It has also produced his book on the democratic (mis-)management of the Keynesian Welfare State: Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002. From this central agenda in macro-, positive, political economy, Professor Franzese's research and teaching interests branch into related issues in the comparative and international politics of developed democracies and into applied quantitative and formal methodology.

Selected Publications

  • Macroeconomics of Developed Democracies, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press 2002.
  • Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities: Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining Institutions in EMU, Kluwer Academic Press, forthcoming, co-editor with Peter Mooslechner, Martin Schuerz.
  • "Multiple Hands on the Wheel: Empirically Modeling Partial Delegation and Shared Control of Monetary Policy in the Open and Institutionalized Economy," Political Analysis 11(4): 445-74, 2003.
  • "Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Economic Policies and Outcomes," Annual Review of Political Science, 2002: Vol. 5: 369-421.
  • "Partially Independent Central Banks, Politically Responsive Governments, and Inflation," American Journal of Political Science 43(3) 1999, 681-706. (Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the 1998 Midwest)
  • "Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage-Bargaining, and European Monetary Union," with Peter A. Hall, International Organization 52(3) 1998, 505-36. (Gregory Leubbert Award for best published article in the field of comparative politics 1997/8)
  • "Strategic Interactions of the ECB, Wage Bargainers, and Governments: Theory, Evidence, and Recent Experience," in Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities: Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining Institutions in EMU , P. Mooslechner, M. Schuerz, R. Franzese, eds., Kluwer, forthcoming.
  • "Institutional and Sectoral Interactions in Monetary Policy and Wage-Price Bargaining," in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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