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Political Economy


2007
w13712 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Social Capital as Good Culture

w13702 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Zvika Neeman

Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics

w13672 Matilde Bombardini
Francesco Trebbi

Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress.

w13637 Brian Knight
Nathan Schiff

Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries

w13622 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

w13606 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Ebonya L. Washington

Segregation and Black Political Efficacy

w13593 Edward J. Kane
Incentive Conflict In Central-Bank Responses to Sectoral Turmoil in Financial Hub Countries

w13562 Aaron Edlin
Andrew Gelman
Noah Kaplan

Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others

w13557 Janet Currie
Firouz Gahvari

Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data

w13549 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Courtney LaFountain

Still the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election

w13535 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities

w13359 Howard C. Kunreuther
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

Evaluating The Effectiveness of Terrorism Risk Financing Solutions

w13457 Adi Brender
Allan Drazen

Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy

w13456 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Richard T. Holden

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans

w13446 Raymond Fisman
Shang-Jin Wei

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques

w13431 Sukkoo Kim
Institutions and U.S. Regional Development: A Study of Massachusetts and Virginia

w13427 Siddhartha G. Dastidar
Raymond Fisman
Tarun Khanna

Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations

w13420 Stefano DellaVigna
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

w13406 Roger E. A. Farmer
Aggregate Demand and Supply

w13393 Barry Eichengreen
The Breakup of the Euro Area

w13378 Valentino Larcinese
Riccardo Puglisi
James M. Snyder
Jr.

Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

w13355 Stefano DellaVigna
Eliana La Ferrara

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

w13334 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

w13321 Pablo T. Spiller
Rafael Gely

Strategic Judicial Decision Making

w13319 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke

To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

w13300 Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

w13258 Orley Ashenfelter
Stephen Ciccarella
Howard J. Shatz

French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

w13223 Sung Won Kang
Hugh Rockoff

After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

w13219 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

w13208 Daron Acemoglu
María Angélica Bautista
Pablo Querubín
James A. Robinson

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

w13180 Philippe Aghion
Alberto Alesina
Francesco Trebbi

Democracy, Technology, and Growth

w13164 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

w13163 Rafael Di Tella
Federico Weinschelbaum

Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

w13159 Rafael Di Tella
John Haisken-De New
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

w13150 Torsten Persson
Guido Tabellini

The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?

w13145 Benjamin A. Olken
Patrick Barron

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

w13122 Ernesto Dal Bó
Pedro Dal Bó
Jason Snyder

Political Dynasties

w13120 Simon Johnson
Jonathan D. Ostry
Arvind Subramanian

The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints

w13106 Frank Levy
Peter Temin

Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

w13102 Benjamin F. Jones
Benjamin A. Olken

Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

w13051 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

The Power of the Family

w13031 Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote

Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

w13028 Timothy Besley
Torsten Persson

The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

w13008 Nicola Persico
José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita
Dan Silverman

Factions and Political Competition

w12952 Yael V. Hochberg
Paola Sapienza
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

w12922 Arianna Degan
Antonio Merlo

Do Voters Vote Sincerely?

w12921 Andrea Mattozzi
Antonio Merlo

Political Careers or Career Politicians?

w12920 Andrea Mattozzi
Antonio Merlo

Mediocracy

w12910 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi

Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers

w12871 Jess Benhabib
Boyan Jovanovic

Optimal Migration: A World Perspective

w12859 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

w12833 Francesco Caselli
Nicola Gennaioli

Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

w12818 Raymond Fisman
Peter Moustakerski
Shang-Jin Wei

Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade


2006
w12789 Mario Chacon
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia"

w12751 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Party Influence in Congress and the Economy

w12749 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Coalition Formation in Political Games

w12748 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States

w12738 Edward L. Glaeser
The Political Economy of Warfare

w12709 Kelly Shue
Erzo F. P. Luttmer

Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

w12707 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro

What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

w12698 Peter Blair Henry
Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation

w12660 Daniel J. Benjamin
Jesse M. Shapiro

Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections

w12653 Casey B. Mulligan
Kevin K. Tsui

Political Competitiveness

w12610 Robert H. Bates
John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

w12588 Richard B. Freeman
Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives: Evidence from a Tournament

w12574 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Edward J. Vytlacil

Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

w12573 Gerard Padro i Miquel
The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear

w12561 Benjamin A. Olken
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

w12553 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History

w12526 E. Han Kim
Adair Morse
Luigi Zingales

What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

w12517 Jean-Marie Baland
James A. Robinson

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

w12448 Roberto Chang
Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows

w12428 Benjamin A. Olken
Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

w12423 Gene M. Grossman
Edwin C.-L. Lai

Parallel Imports and Price Controls

w12398 N. Gregory Mankiw
Phillip Swagel

The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

w12371 Jacob L. Vigdor
Fifty Million Voters Can't Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics

w12332 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Separation of Powers and the Budget Process

w12328 Alberto Alesina
William Easterly
Janina Matuszeski

Artificial States

w12317 Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Joel Waldfogel

Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

w12313 Stephen Coate
Brian Knight

Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation

w12306 Richard B. Freeman
Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

w12224 Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms

w12190 Allan Drazen
Marcela Eslava

Pork Barrel Cycles

w12169 Stefano DellaVigna
Ethan Kaplan

The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

w12135 John B. Shoven
Sita N. Slavov

Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security

w12133 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

w12128 Edward Glaeser
Giacomo Ponzetto
Andrei Shleifer

Why Does Democracy Need Education?

w12112 Amy Finkelstein
James Poterba

Testing for Adverse Selection with "Unused Observables"

w12110 J. Vernon Henderson
Ari Kuncoro

"Sick of Local Government Corruption? Vote Islamic"

w12100 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt

w12099 Sebastián Mazzuca
James A. Robinson

Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

w12073 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

w12053 Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers

Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

w12049 Alberto Alesina
Silvia Ardagna
Francesco Trebbi

Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

w11993 Torsten Persson
Guido Tabellini

Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

w11988 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

w11940 Daron Acemoglu
Modeling Inefficient Institutions

w11927 Zeynep Hansen
Marc T. Law

The Political Economy of "Truth-in-Advertising" Regulation During the Progressive Era

w11924 Ebonya Washington
Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues

w11915 Ebonya Washington
How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

w11910 Sendhil Mullainathan
Ebonya Washington

Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting


2005
w11862 Adi Brender
Allan Drazen

How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Cross-Section of Countries

w11857 Edward L. Glaeser
Bryce A. Ward

Myths and Realities of American Political Geography

w11794 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation

w11779 Roberto Chang
Financial Crises and Political Crises

w11700 Alberto Alesina
Nichola Fuchs Schuendeln

Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

w11600 Alberto Alesina
Guido Tabellini

Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

w11570 Raquel Fernández
Gilat Levy

Diversity and Redistribution

w11531 Alberto Alesina
Guido Tabellini

Why Do Politicians Delegate?

w11495 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Inefficiency in Legislative Policy-Making: A Dynamic Analysis

w11484 Timothy Besley
Torsten Persson
Daniel Sturm

Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States

w11476 Lars Peter Hansen
John Heaton
Nan Li

Consumption Strikes Back?: Measuring Long-Run Risk

w11462 Stephen Coate
Brian Knight

Socially Optimal Districting

w11399 Alberto Alesina
George-Marios Angeletos

Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

w11397 John Joseph Wallis
Barry R. Weingast

Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era

w11396 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics

w11375 Alessandra Casella
Andrew Gelman

A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda

w11309 David Card
Enrico Moretti

Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

w11275 Daron Acemoglu
Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

w11273 Lee J. Alston
Bernardo Mueller

Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

w11249 Martin Feldstein
The Euro and the Stability Pact

w11236 Philippe Aghion
Alberto Alesina
Francesco Trebbi

Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from US Cities

w11235 Daron Acemoglu
Constitutions, Politics and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effect of Constitutions"

w11208 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

w11205 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Pierre Yared

Income and Democracy

w11204 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared

From Education to Democracy?

w11117 J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova
Christopher M. Meissner

The Globalization of Trade and Democracy, 1870-2000

w11085 Allan Drazen
Marcela Eslava

Electoral Manipulation via Expenditure Composition: Theory and Evidence


2004
w11014 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics

w10928 Allan Drazen
Nuno Limão
Thomas Stratman

Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence

w10927 Allan Drazen
Peter Isard

Can Public Discussion Enhance Program Ownership?


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