Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation

Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador

NBER Working Paper No. 15194
Issued in July 2009

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We thank seminar participants at Chicago GSB, Columbia, Iowa, Penn, Queens, Rochester, Stanford Junior Lunch and Western Ontario for comments. We would also like to thank Berthold Herrendorf, Oleg Tsyvinski, and Emmanuel Farhi, who discussed the paper at the NYU Development Conference, the Princeton Conference on Dynamic Political Economy, and the NBER Summer Institute, respectively. Doireann Fitzgerald, Pete Klenow, and Ivan Werning provided us with fruitful comments and suggestions. Amador acknowledges NSF support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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