Mauricio S. Bugarin University of Brasilia bugarin.mauricio@gmail.com http://bugarinmauricio.com/ Biographical Sketch: Mauricio Bugarin is full professor at the Economics Department of the University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997, is a fellow of the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq) and is currently Leader of the Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG). Professional web-page: bugarinmauricio.com. Primary Research Focus : Public economics, economic models of political processes, applied mechanism design, law and economics JEL Areas : C7:Game Theory and Bargaining Theory:General D7:Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General