Contact Info: Department of Political Science University of California, San Diego Social Sciences Building 370 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 email: ssaiegh@ucsd.edu phone: (858) 534-7237 fax: (858) 534-7130
Teaching	Research	Links

Teaching

• POLI 134D: Topics in Latin American Politics (Syllabus)
• POLI 137: Sports Analytics Approach to the Social Sciences (Syllabus)
• POLI 163: Analyzing Politics (Syllabus)
• POLI 229: Graduate Comparative Politics - Political Risk and Asset Prices (Syllabus)

Research

Books

• Ruling by Statute, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  
• La Nueva Economia Politica, Eudeba, 1998 (co-edited with Mariano Tommasi).
  

Political Economy

• Options Markets as Political Forecasts: Insights from the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race, unpublished.
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• Mitigating Policy Uncertainity: What Financial Markets Reveal About Firm-Level Lobbying, with Kristy Buzard and Nathan Canen, forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science.
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• Tax havens and income inequality in host countries, with Glen Biglaiser, Ibrahim Kocaman, and Ronald McGauvran, forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review.
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• The Real-Time Impact of Political Risk on Market Valuations: Evidence from Peru, with Juan P. Micozzi, Patricio Navia, Pablo Pinto, Journal of Risk and Financial Markets 2024.
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• The Value of Legal Recourse in Sovereign Bond Markets: Evidence from Argentina, with Glen Biglaiser, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2024.
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• Fear and Loathing on Wall Street: Electoral Risk Hedging in the United States (1986-2020), Journal of Political Economy and Political Institutions 2023.
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• Political Shocks and Asset Prices: Evidence from Argentina, with Daniel Carnahan, PSRM 2022.
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• Electoral Uncertainty and Financial Volatility: Evidence from Two-Round Presidential Races in Emerging Markets, with Daniel Carnahan, Economics & Politics 2021.
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• Executive Constraint and Sovereign Debt: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Argentina during the Baring Crisis, with Gary Cox, Comparative Political Studies 2018.
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• Political Institutions and Sovereign Borrowing: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Argentina, Public Choice 2013.
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• Sovereign Debt and Regime Type: Re-considering the Democratic Advantage, with Emily Beaulieu and Gary Cox, International Organization 2012.
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• Coalition Governments and Sovereign Debt Crises, Economics & Politics 2009.
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• Do Countries Have a Democratic Advantage?, Comparative Political Studies 2005.
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Conflict and Violence

• The Logic of Cronyism in State Violence: Evidence from Labor Repression During Argentina's Last Dictatorship, with Esteban Klor and Shanker Satyanath, Journal of the European Economic Association 2021.
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• Civil War Exposure and Violence, with Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, Economics & Politics 2011.
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Suffrage Reform

• Reassessing the Link between Revolutionary Threats and Democratization, Journal of Historical Political Economy 2024.
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• The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832, with Gary Cox, Adriane Fresh, Journal of Historical Political Economy 2023.
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• Suffrage Extension and Financial Volatility: Reconsidering the Great Reform Act, with Gary Cox, Journal of Historical Political Economy 2022.
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Diversity

• Heterogeneity and Team Performance, with Keith Ingersoll, Edmund Malesky, Journal of Sports Analytics 2017.
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Political Institutions

• Executive-Legislative Relations, in Routledge Handbook 2015.
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• Law Making, in Oxford Handbook 2014.
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• Policy differences among parliamentary and presidential systems, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Public Choice.
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• Voting in the Bicameral Congress: Large Majorities as a Signal of Quality, with Matias Iaryczower, Gabriel Katz, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 2013.
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• Political Prowess or Lady Luck? Evaluating Chief Executives' Legislative Success Rates, Journal of Politics 2009.
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• Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism, with Adam Przeworski, Jose Antonio Cheibub, British Journal of Political Science 2004.
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Federalism

• Federalism, Argentine-Style, with Mariano Tommasi, Pablo Spiller, Cambridge University Press 2007.
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• Fiscal Federalism in Argentina: Policies, Politics, and Institutional Reform, with Pablo Sanguinetti, Mariano Tommasi, Economia 2001.
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• An 'Incomplete-Contracts' Approach to Intergovernmental Transfer Systems in Latin America, with Mariano Tommasi, World Bank 2000.
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• Why is Argentina's Fiscal Federalism so Inefficient? Entering the Labyrinth, with Mariano Tommasi, Journal of Applied Economics 1999.
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Politics of Latin America

• Constituency Effects and Legislative Dissent under Closed-List PR, with Eduardo Aleman, Juan P. Micozzi, Pablo Pinto, Latin American Politics and Society 2020.
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• Disentangling the Role of Ideology and Partisanship in Legislative Voting: Evidence from Argentina, with Eduardo Aleman, Juan P. Micozzi, Pablo Pinto, Legislative Studies Quarterly 2018.
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• An empirical stochastic model of Argentina's Impossible Game (1955-1966), with Juan P. Micozzi, Journal of Theoretical Politics 2016.
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• Using Joint Scaling to Study Ideology and Representation: Evidence from Latin America, Political Analysis 2015.
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• Political Realignment and Democratic Breakdown in Argentina, 1916-1930, with Eduardo Aleman, Party Politics 2014.
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• Fraudulent Democracy? An Analysis of Argentina's Infamous Decade using Supervised Machine Learning, Political Analysis 2011.
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• Recovering a Basic Space from Elite Surveys: Evidence from Latin America, Legislative Studies Quarterly 2009.
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• Legislative Preferences, Political Parties, and Coalition Unity in Chile, with Eduardo Aleman, Comparative Politics 2007.
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• Amateur Legislators-Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System, with Mark P. Jones, Pablo Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, American Journal of Political Science 2002.
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Links

• Department of Politics - New York University
• Department of Political Science - University of Pittsburgh