Marco Pecoraro

Marco Pecoraro currently works at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, and he is a scientific collaborator at the University of Neuchâtel. He has research interests in labor economics, applied econometrics, education economics, and migration studies.

How Right and Left-Wing Populists Impact Government Spending

Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Tanmay Singh, and Marco Pecoraro research the behavior of populist leaders and parties around the world and how their policies influence subsequent government spending. Their research shows that populists from either side of the ideological spectrum have very little in common in terms of policy despite similar anti-elite rhetoric.

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