I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, and a Research affiliate at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB).

I obtained my PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and work on models of information economics and political economy. 

Find out more about my research here and my CV here. 

Contact: antoine.zerbini@bse.eu 

My main research agenda examines modern strategies of top-down accountability in non-democratic settings. I explore how authoritarian leaders leverage technological change and differences in political preferences across citizens to entrench their regime via the control of information flows, the production of entertainment or the use of violence. 

In a second research agenda, I consider which institutions of horizontal accountability, such as lobbying transparency or the media landscape, are most conducive to vertical accountability.