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Political Economy


2013
w19122 Enrico Spolaore
What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

w19090 Anirban Mitra
Debraj Ray

Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

w19080 John G. Bullock
Alan S. Gerber
Seth J. Hill
Gregory A. Huber

Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics

w19052 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri

Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences

w19029 Filipe R. Campante
Ruben Durante
Francesco Sobbrio

Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation

w19028 Filipe R. Campante
Quoc-Anh Do
Bernardo V. Guimaraes

Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

w19027 Filipe R. Campante
Quoc-Anh Do

Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

w18986 Chad Kendall
Tommaso Nannicini
Francesco Trebbi

How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

w18978 Francesco Caselli
Massimo Morelli
Dominic Rohner

The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

w18966 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Family Ties

w18965 Stuart A. Gabriel
Matthew E. Kahn
Ryan K. Vaughn

Congressional Influence as a Determinant of Subprime Lending

w18930 Gerald Carlino
Robert P. Inman

Local Deficits and Local Jobs: Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?

w18921 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson

Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice

w18883 Marianne Bertrand
Adair Morse

Trickle-Down Consumption

w18872 Siqi Zheng
Matthew E. Kahn
Weizeng Sun
Danglun Luo

Incentivizing China’s Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism

w18865 Ilyana Kuziemko
Michael I. Norton
Emmanuel Saez
Stefanie Stantcheva

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

w18851 Nathan Nunn
Daniel Trefler

Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

w18839 Alberto Alesina
Bryony Reich

Nation Building

w18827 Allison Shertzer
Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization: Evidence from European Migration to the United States

w18813 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

w18798 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi

Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

w18674 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro
Erin Troland

Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones

w18767 Stephen Coate
Evaluating Durable Public Good Provision using Housing Prices

w18765 Quamrul Ashraf
Stelios Michalopoulos

Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture

w18740 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson
Steven M. Smith

Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence

w18738 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

w18728 Roger Gordon
Gordon B. Dahl

Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

w18722 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

w18703 Nuno Limão
Giovanni Maggi

Uncertainty and Trade Agreements

w18699 Alberto Alesina
Johann Harnoss
Hillel Rapoport

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

w18691 Daron Acemoglu
Tristan Reed
James A. Robinson

Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone

w18685 Christopher R. Knittel
The Energy-Policy Efficiency Gap: Was There Ever Support for Gasoline Taxes?

w18665 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics


2012
w18641 Ned Augenblick
Jesse M. Cunha
Ernesto Dal Bó
Justin M. Rao

The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field

w18633 Gerard Padro i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao

Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

w18612 Daniel B. Jones
Werner Troesken
Randall Walsh

A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement

w18595 Daron Acemoglu
Gino Gancia
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

w18588 Lee J. Alston
Marcus Melo
Bernardo Mueller
Carlos Pereira

Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil

w18585 Marco Battaglini
Bård Harstad

Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements

w18584 Wojciech Kopczuk
Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth

w18573 Alessandra Casella
Sébastien Turban

Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

w18545 Marina Halac
Pierre Yared

Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks

w18539 Victor A.B. Davies
Sylvain Dessy

The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone

w18519 Bård Harstad
Matti Liski

Games and Resources

w18514 Marika Cabral
Caroline Hoxby

The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

w18512 Alberto F. Alesina
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Ethnic Inequality

w18509 Jeffrey V. Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

Trust and Cheating

w18500 Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback
John Joseph Wallis

Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment?

w18460 Jeffrey Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

Trust, Values and False Consensus

w18441 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Thierry Verdier

Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

w18438 Stelios Michalopoulos
Alireza Naghavi
Giovanni Prarolo

Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam

w18425 Patrick Francois
Ilia Rainer
Francesco Trebbi

How Is Power Shared In Africa?

w18424 Ilia Rainer
Francesco Trebbi

New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

w18423 Alberto F. Alesina
Silvia Ardagna

The design of fiscal adjustments

w18375 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland

Predation, Economic Activity and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines

w18368 Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel

Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-war Institutional Reforms

w18355 Claire S.H. Lim
James M. Snyder
Jr.

Elections and the Quality of Public Officials: Evidence from U.S. State Courts

w18354 Laurence Ales
Pricila Maziero
Pierre Yared

A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles

w18351 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken

Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

w18320 Tom Vogl
Race and the Politics of Close Elections

w18313 Leopoldo Fergusson
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik
Juan F. Vargas

The Need for Enemies

w18306 Richard Schmalensee
Robert Stavins

The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

w18291 Lauren Cohen
Karl B. Diether
Christopher Malloy

Legislating Stock Prices

w18275 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities

w18268 Alberto Chong
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Letter Grading Government Efficiency

w18257 Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky

Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model

w18234 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro
Michael Sinkinson

Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers

w18224 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

w18177 Daron Acemoglu
Camilo García-Jimeno
James A. Robinson

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

w18164 Matthew Gentzkow
Nathan Petek
Jesse M. Shapiro
Michael Sinkinson

Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928

w18162 William Easterly
Ross Levine

The European Origins of Economic Development

w18156 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Martín Rossi

Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

w18150 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Diana B. Moreira

Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

w18140 Matthew Ranson
Robert N. Stavins

Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems

w18130 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

w18129 Suresh Naidu
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

w18119 Juan Botero
Alejandro Ponce
Andrei Shleifer

Education and the Quality of Government

w18117 Paola Giuliano
Prachi Mishra
Antonio Spilimbergo

Democracy and Reforms: Evidence from a New Dataset

w18112 Edward L. Glaeser
The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures: Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises

w18101 Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao

The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China

w18095 Raymond Fisman
Florian Schulz
Vikrant Vig

Private Returns to Public Office

w18076 Patrick Hummel
Brian Knight

Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis

w18049 Philippe Aghion
Torsten Persson
Dorothee Rouzet

Education and Military Rivalry

w17979 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

w17968 Abhijit Banerjee
Sendhil Mullainathan
Rema Hanna

Corruption

w17926 Marco Battaglini
Salvatore Nunnari
Thomas Palfrey

The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis

w17912 Abhijit Banerjee
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Esther Duflo
Daniel Keniston
Nina Singh

Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

w17895 Bruce Ian Carlin
Florian Ederer

Search Fatigue

w17869 Nathan Nunn
Culture and the Historical Process

w17847 Alessandra Casella
Thomas Palfrey
Sébastien Turban

Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders

w17845 Gabriel Chan
Robert Stavins
Robert Stowe
Richard Sweeney

The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

w17833 Francesco Caselli
Thomas E. Cunningham
Massimo Morelli
Inés Moreno de Barreda

Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds

w17831 Atif R. Mian
Amir Sufi
Francesco Trebbi

Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in the Aftermath of Financial Crises

w17810 Levent Celik
Bilgehan Karabay
John McLaren

When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority

w17799 Robert P. Inman
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

w17794 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

w17790 Kyle Handley
Nuno Limão

Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence

w17776 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ebonya L. Washington

Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

w17770 Jason M. DeBacker
Bradley T. Heim
Anh Tran

Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States

w17754 Wolfgang Keller
Ben Li
Carol H. Shiue

Shanghai’s Trade, China’s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War

w17736 Sumit Agarwal
David Lucca
Amit Seru
Francesco Trebbi

Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking

w17731 Serguey Braguinsky
Sergey V. Mityakov

Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency: Evidence from Russian Administrative Data

w17726 Raymond Fisman
Nikolaj A. Harmon
Emir Kamenica
Inger Munk

Labor Supply of Politicians


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