NIALL HUGHES

King’s Business School

King’s College London
London, WC2B 4BG, UK
Email: niall.hughes@kcl.ac.uk

EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer in Economics, King’s College London, Sept 2017 - present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick, Sept 2013 - Aug 2017

EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, European University Institute (Italy), Nov 2013
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Fall 2011
MRes in Economics, European University Institute (Italy), July 2009
MSc in Economics, Tilburg University (Netherlands), August 2008
BA in Economics and Political Science, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), July 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Economy, Game Theory, Applied Micro, Experimental Economics

PUBLICATIONS
“Voting in Legislative Elections under Plurality Rule”, Journal of Economic Theory 166 (2016):
pg 51-93.
“How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory & Experiment”, with Sebastian Fehrler,
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 10.1 (2018): pg 181-209.

WORKING PAPERS
“Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections”, Revise & Resubmit at American Economic
Review.
“Legislative Bargaining with Accountability”

WORK IN PROGRESS
“Diversity in Committees”, with Friederike Mengel & Zia-Ul-Hassan Khan
“Government Formation & Policy Control”, with Lanny Martin

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Co-Organiser “Political Economy: Theory meets Empirics” Workshop: Online - 2021, Konstanz -
2019, King’s College London - 2018, Konstanz - 2017, Bath - 2016
Organiser “Internal Political Economy-Public Economics” Workshop, Warwick, 2013-2017
Co-Director, BSc Economics, King’s College London (2019-present)
Deputy Director, BSc Economics, King’s College London (2018-19)
Lecturer for “Microeconomics”, King’s College London (Postgraduate, 2021- present)
Lecturer for “Economics of Firm Behavior”, King’s College London (Postgraduate, 2021- present)
Lecturer for “Advanced Microeconomics”, King’s College London (Undergraduate, 2019- present)
Lecturer for “Game Theory”, King’s College London (Undergraduate, 2018- present)
Lecturer for “The Political Economy of Con ict”, Warwick (Undergraduate, 2014-17)
Seminar Leader for “The Making of Economic Policy”, Warwick (Undergraduate, 2013-2017)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2022: EPCS Annual Meeting (Braga), EUI Alumni Workshop, XI IBEO Alghero Workshop
2021: SPSA Annual Meeting, POLECONUK Webinar, KCL QPE Seminar
2020: APSA Formal Theory Workshop
2019: Carlos III Madrid Theory Seminar, University of Konstanz
2018: MPSA Annual Meeting Chicago, IX IBEO Alghero Workshop
2017: University of Nottingham, University College Dublin, University of Copenhagen, University
of Sussex, University of Surrey, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, University of Warwick,
Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of East Anglia, King’s College London
2016: University of Bath, EPSA Annual Meeting (Brussels), 2nd EPEC Workshop (Alghero), APSA
Annual Meeting (Philadelphia), Higher School of Economics
2015: SPSA Annual Meeting (New Orleans), University of Konstanz, University of Nottingham,
University of Glasgow
2014: CTN Workshop (Brussels), MPSA Annual Meeting, ETH Zurich, EPSA Annual Meeting
(Edinburgh)
2013: CORE Louvain, University of Mannheim, LSE, UNSW, IMT Lucca, CTN Workshop
(Warwick), SAET Conference (Paris), EUI Alumni Conference

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: English (Mother Tongue), Irish (Fluent), Italian (Intermediate)
Citizenship: Irish
Age: 37

Last Update: August 2022

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