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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy


2009
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


2008
w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

w14604 Peter Blair Henry
Conrad Miller

Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

w14603 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Endogenous Presidentialism

w14580 Loretti I. Dobrescu
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Alberto F. Motta

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

w14598 Riccardo Puglisi
James M. Snyder
Jr.

Media Coverage of Political Scandals

w14585 Timothy J. Besley
Torsten Persson

The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence

w14584 Tommaso Monacelli
Roberto Perotti

Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups

w14579 Robert P. Inman
The Flypaper Effect

w14556 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra
Robert MacCulloch

A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism

w14511 Ernesto Dal Bó
Martín Rossi

Term Length and Political Performance

w14508 Ernesto Dal Bó
Marko Terviö

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

w14487 Alessandra Casella
Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

w14483 Rafael Di Tella
Sebastian Galiani
Ernesto Schargrodsky

Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization

w14479 Alberto Alesina
Silvia Ardagna
Vincenzo Galasso

The Euro and Structural Reforms

w14468 Atif Mian
Amir Sufi
Francesco Trebbi

The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis

w14445 Brian G. Knight
Chun-Fang Chiang

Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements

w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History

w14363 William Easterly
Can the West Save Africa?

w14360 Alexander Dyck
David Moss
Luigi Zingales

Media versus Special Interests

w14347 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States

w14335 Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig

The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

w14302 Julio J. Rotemberg
Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

w14278 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Long Term Persistence

w14268 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Monica Singhal

Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

w14239 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs

w14206 Alan Gerber
Daniel Kessler
Marc Meredith

The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

w14202 Alberto F. Alesina
Francesca Lotti
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

w14198 Lori A. Beaman
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Esther Duflo
Rohini Pande
Petia Topalova

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

w14143 Alberto F. Alesina
Richard T. Holden

Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections

w14130 David Y. Albouy
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data

w14129 Pol Antràs
Gerard Padró i Miquel

Foreign Influence and Welfare

w14123 Benjamin A. Olken
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

w14103 Alessandra Casella
Shuky Ehrenberg
Andrew Gelman
Jie Shen

Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections: A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

w14091 Eric J. Brunner
Stephen L. Ross
Ebonya L. Washington

Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

w14050 Dani Rodrik
Second-Best Institutions

w14047 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

w14033 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Pablo Querubin
James A. Robinson

When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence

w13999 Pedro Dal Bó
Andrew Foster
Louis Putterman

Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

w13995 David Y. Albouy
The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

w13992 William Easterly
Shanker Satyanath
Daniel Berger

Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry

w13968 Edward Miguel
Sebastián M. Saiegh
Shanker Satyanath

National Cultures and Soccer Violence

w13964 Sylvain Chassang
Gerard Padro i Miquel

Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk

w13956 David A. Jaeger
Esteban F. Klor
Sami H. Miaari
M. Daniele Paserman

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

w13945 Dalton Conley
Brian J. McCabe

Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring

w13919 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt

Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?

w13915 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

A Theory of Military Dictatorships

w13907 Roland Bénabou
Ideology

w13878 James M. Snyder
Jr.
David Strömberg

Press Coverage and Political Accountability

w13858 Anton Korinek
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage

w13839 Radha Iyengar
Jonathan Monten

Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq

w13830 Casey B. Mulligan
Kevin K. Tsui

Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy

w13815 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

A Long Term Perspective on the Euro

w13809 Aron Balas
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

The Divergence of Legal Procedures

w13779 Ricardo J. Caballero
Pierre Yared

Inflating the Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty

w13774 Charles Calomiris
Raymond Fisman
Yongxiang Wang

Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales

w13757 Gary Richardson
Dan Bogart

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830

w13735 Robert P. Inman
Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism

w13733 Robert P. Inman
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa


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