B. Pablo MontagnesAssociate Professor / Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences

• Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2010

I’m an Associate Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and Political Science at Emory University. My research lies in political economy, with a focus on how institutions, algorithms, and incentives shape accountability, selection, behavior, and regulatory design. I use formal theory and applied microeconometrics to study elections and ideology, courts, lobbying and information, bureaucracy and the balance between rules and discretion, and the organizational economics and governance of firms and public institutions. My work appears in journals such as the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Politics, Management Science, and PNAS.

“Bounding Partisan Approval Rates Under Endogenous Partisanship: Why High Presidential Approval May Not Be What it Seems” Journal of Politics, Forthcoming (With Zachary Peskowitz and Joshua McCrain)

"Backward Induction in the Wild: Evidence from the U.S. Senate" American Economic Review, 108:7, 1971-2013 (2018) (with Daniel Magleby and Jorg Spenkuch)

“Political Incentives to Privatize” Journal of Politics, 80:4, 1254-1267 (2018) (with Baur Bektemirov)

“Rule versus Discretion: Regulatory Uncertainty, Firm Investment, and Bureaucratic Organization.” Journal of Politics, 79:2, 457-472 (2017) (with Stephane Wolton)

• QTM 110: Introduction to Scientific Methods
• QTM 315: Game Theory