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Political Economy


2010
w15738 Nancy Qian
David Yanagizawa

Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government

w15713 Brian G. Knight
Nathan Schiff

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

w15705 Fernanda Brollo
Tommaso Nannicini
Roberto Perotti
Guido Tabellini

The Political Resource Curse

w15700 Xiaobo Lü
Kenneth F. Scheve
Matthew J. Slaughter

Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection

w15697 Daniel Bogart
Gary Richardson

Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

w15694 Daron Acemoglu
Pierre Yared

Political Limits to Globalization

w15693 Daron Acemoglu
Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?

w15667 Daniel Treisman
Oil and Democracy in Russia

w15651 Andrei Shleifer
Efficient Regulation

w15643 Alexander Whalley
Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers

w15640 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

The Long Reach of Childhood Health and Circumstance: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study


2009
w15602 Rafael Di Tella
Ernesto Schargrodsky

Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

w15587 Alberto F. Alesina
Guido Cozzi
Noemi Mantovan

The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

w15578 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Rafael Santos

The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

w15560 Enrico Spolaore
National Borders, Conflict and Peace

w15559 Ernesto Dal Bó
Pedro Dal Bó

"Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation

w15550 Francesco Caselli
Guy Michaels

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

w15547 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro

Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines

w15544 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro
Michael Sinkinson

The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

w15540 Emir Kamenica
Matthew Gentzkow

Bayesian Persuasion

w15475 Alan M. Taylor
The Global 1970s and the Echo of the Great Depression

w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

w15448 Laura Alfaro
Anusha Chari

India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

w15438 Alberto F. Alesina
Silvia Ardagna

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending

w15417 Francesco Giavazzi
Fabio Schiantarelli
Michel Serafinelli

Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

w15415 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Family Ties and Political Participation

w15403 Charles Calomiris
Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game

w15402 Rafael Di Tella
Ignacio Franceschelli

Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

w15400 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Power Fluctuations and Political Economy

w15397 Robert E. Baldwin
U.S. Trade Policy Since 1934: An Uneven Path Toward Greater Trade Liberalization

w15378 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

Persistence of Civil Wars

w15368 Adi Brender
Allan Drazen

Do Leaders Affect Government Spending Priorities?

w15365 Alan S. Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Ebonya Washington

Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment

w15360 Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Romain Wacziarg

The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages

w15355 Raquel Fernández
Women's Rights and Development

w15344 Jeffrey Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

The Right Amount of Trust

w15321 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo

Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

w15319 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

The CHAT Dataset

w15264 Lee J. Alston
Edwyna Harris
Bernardo Mueller

De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

w15302 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15279 Frederick Schauer
Richard Zeckhauser

The Trouble with Cases

w15275 Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Ross Levine

Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence

w15230 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments

w15224 David Albouy
Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

w15221 Benjamin A. Olken
Monica Singhal

Informal Taxation

w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

w15201 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Anger and Regulation

w15172 Charles F. Manski
WHEN CONSENSUS CHOICE DOMINATES INDIVIDUALISM: Jensen's Inequality and Collective Decisions under Uncertainty

w15157 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

w15155 Daron Acemoglu
Melissa Dell

Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries

w15140 Marc T. Law
Zeynep K. Hansen

Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis

w15139 Bruce Ian Carlin
Simon Gervais
Gustavo Manso

When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?

w15127 Isaías N. Chaves
Leopoldo Fergusson
James A. Robinson

He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

w15095 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

War and Relatedness

w15088 Timothy J. Besley
Torsten Persson

State Capacity, Conflict and Development

w15083 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

w15069 William Easterly
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point

w15064 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

w15050 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

w15053 John M. de Figueiredo
Integrated Political Strategy

w14963 Michael I. Cragg
Matthew E. Kahn

Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production

w14953 Kishore Gawande
Pravin Krishna
Marcelo Olarreaga

What Governments Maximize and Why: The View from Trade

w14937 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan

Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments

w14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Edward Miguel
Daniel Ortega
Francisco Rodriguez

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

w14918 Nathan Nunn
Diego Puga

Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

w14906 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan

Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

w14899 Nathan Nunn
The Importance of History for Economic Development

w14893 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman

Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

w14857 Stephen Coate
Brian Knight

Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities

w14831 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Cantoni
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

w14825 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Preferences for Redistribution

w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War

w14799 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

The Real Swing Voter's Curse

w14771 Matilde Bombardini
Francesco Trebbi

Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?

w14762 Ruben Durante
Brian Knight

Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy

w14703 Simeon Djankov
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Disclosure by Politicians

w14702 Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Government Transfers and Political Support

w14648 Philippe Aghion
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer

Regulation and Distrust

w14628 John William Hatfield
Gerard Padró i Miquel

A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization


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