Rafael HORTALA-VALLVE
Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
Government Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Contact details
Government Department
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
Research Interests
Political Economy. Formal Political Science.
Collective Decision-Making. Voting and Elections.
Experimental and Behavioural social sciences.
Coalition Formation. Executive organisation. Trust
I’m the organiser
of the Behavioural
Political Economy Workshop: 2019,
2020,
2023,
2024
I’m the
convenor of the MSc Political Science (PSPE)
Teaching (24/25)
GV4C8 Game Theory
for Political Science
GV4H6 Behavioural
Political Economy
GV4B3 MPA Capstone
Project
GV344 Philosophy,
Politics and Economics: Research Project
Working
Papers
The Effect of Advisors’ Incentives
on Clients' Investments
Revise and Resubmit Journal of Finance
(joint with Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal and
Dong Lou)
Affective Polarisation in the
United Kingdom: Two Wallets Drops, an Election and a Referendum
(joint with Paul Dolan, Laura Kudrna and Kate
Laffan)
Ultimatum game with costly information acquisition
(joint with Marcus Roel)
Teams of rivals: learning about a cabinet and its
shadow
(joint with Torun Dewan)
Published papers
Pre-electoral coalitions and
the distribution of political power
Public Choice, Vol 198, 2024 (joint with Jaakko Meriläinen
and Janne Tukiainen)
The determinants of trust:
findings from large, representative samples in six OECD countries
Economica, Vol 91, Issue 364, 2024
(joint with R Kovacs, M Dunaiski, M Galizzi, G Grimalda, F Murtin and
L Putterman)
Trusting Trust: An external
validity analysis
Games, 12 (3), 2021 (joint with Sanchayan Banerjee
and Matteo M. Galizzi)
Conformity and Individuals’ Response
to Information About Aggregate Turnout
Political
Behavior,
2020 (joint with Andre Blais)
Electoral competition, control
and learning (online Appendix)
British Journal of Political Science, Vol 49,
Issue 3, 2019 (joint with Torun Dewan)
Trust and Its Determinants:
Evidence from the Trustlab Experiment
OECD Statistics Working Papers 2018, (joint
with F Murtin, L Fleischer, V Siegerink, A Aassve Y Algan , R Boarini, S Gonzalez, Z Lonti, G Grimalda, U Schmidt, S Kim, D Lee, L Putterman and C Smith)
The effects of district
magnitude on voting behaviour
The Journal of
Politics, Vol 79, Number 1, 2017 (joint with
Simon Hix and Guillem Riambau)
The perverse consequences of
policy restrictions in the presence of asymmetric information (online Appendix)
Political Science Research and Methods (JEPSA), Vol 5, Issue 3, 2017 (joint with Valentino Larcinese)
Collusion, blackmail and whistle-blowing
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol 11, No. 3, 2016 (joint with Leonardo Felli)
Are people more
or less inclined to vote when aggregate turnout is high?
In Voting
Experiments (Springer), 2016 (joint with Andre Blais)
Primaries: the unifying force
(online Appendix)
Public Choice, Volume 163, Issue 3, 2015 (joint with Hannes Mueller)
The role of information in different
bargaining protocols
Experimental Economics, Vol 16, 2013 (joint with Aniol
Llorente-Saguer and Rosemarie Nagel)
Journal of
Theoretical Politics, Vol 24, no. 4, 2012
Pure strategy nash equilibria in non-zero sum colonel
blotto games
International
Journal of Game Theory, Vol 41, Issue 2, 2012 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
The three A's
of government formation: appointment, allocation, and assignment
American
Journal of Political Science, Vol 55, Issue 3, 2011 (joint with Torun Dewan)
Generous legislators? A description
of vote trading agreements
Quarterly
Journal of Political Science, Vol 6, Issue 2, 2011
Voter turnout and electoral competition
in a multidimensional policy space
European
Journal of Political Economy, Vol 27, Issue 2, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Voter turnout in a
multidimensional policy space
Economics of
Governance, Vol 12, Number 1, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
A simple mechanism for resolving
conflict
Games and
Economic Behaviour, Vol 70, Issue 2, 2010 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
Inefficiencies on linking decisions
Social Choice and Welfare,
Vol 34, Number 3, 2010
Economica, Vol 77, Issue
308, 2010 (joint with Miguel Sanchez)
A simple model of bank disclosure
and subordinated debt
Cuadernos de Economia, Vol 28, No. 77-78, 2005