NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy


2012
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


2011
w17701 William R. Kerr
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

w17682 Charles Goodhart
Global Macroeconomic and Financial Supervision: Where Next?

w17679 Alberto Chong
Ana L. De La O
Dean Karlan
Leonard Wantchekon

Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

w17673 Alan S. Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
David Doherty
Conor M. Dowling
Seth J. Hill

Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment

w17672 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt
Alessandra Voena

The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

w17671 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

w17655 Alberto F. Alesina
Dorian Carloni
Giampaolo Lecce

The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments

w17634 Pablo Querubin
James M. Snyder
Jr.

The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880

w17620 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

w17601 Francesco Caselli
Andrea Tesei

Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability

w17591 Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

w17577 William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln
Prachi Mishra

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

w17572 Ruben Durante
Giovanna Labartino
Roberto Perotti

Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

w17571 Roberto Perotti
The "Austerity Myth": Gain Without Pain?

w17562 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Fiscal Policy and Unemployment

w17527 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer

Teaching Practices and Social Capital

w17518 Todd A. Gormley
Simon Johnson
Changyong Rhee

Ending "Too Big To Fail": Government Promises vs. Investor Perceptions

w17469 Brian G. Knight
State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing

w17464 Lubos Pastor
Pietro Veronesi

Political Uncertainty and Risk Premia

w17436 Matthew Gentzkow
Emir Kamenica

Competition in Persuasion

w17432 Fabrice Murtin
Romain Wacziarg

The Democratic Transition

w17431 Gilles St. Paul
Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking

w17417 Robin Burgess
Matthew Hansen
Benjamin A. Olken
Peter Potapov
Stefanie Sieber

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

w17411 Frederico Finan
Laura A. Schechter

Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

w17409 BÃ¥rd Harstad
The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

w17398 Benjamin A. Olken
Rohini Pande

Corruption in Developing Countries

w17397 Marco Faravelli
Randall Walsh

Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections

w17395 Chris Edmond
Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change

w17386 Stephen P. Holland
Jonathan E. Hughes
Christopher R. Knittel
Nathan C. Parker

Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies

w17384 Hanming Fang
Dmitry A. Shapiro
Arthur Zillante

An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices

w17314 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

w17306 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

A Political Theory of Populism

w17293 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?

w17271 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

w17270 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens Jr.

Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout

w17266 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927

w17263 Riccardo Puglisi
James M. Snyder
Jr.

The Balanced U.S. Press

w17262 Levent Celik
Bilgehan Karabay
John McLaren

Trade Policy Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining

w17234 Ilyana Kuziemko
Ryan W. Buell
Taly Reich
Michael I. Norton

"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

w17230 Ruediger Bachmann
Jinhui Bai

Public Consumption Over the Business Cycle

w17206 Steven C.A. Pincus
James A. Robinson

What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?

w17184 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

w17171 John M. de Figueiredo
Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes

w17158 Nicola Gennaioli
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Human Capital and Regional Development

w17145 Stephen Coate
Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis

w17132 Daniel Treisman
Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason

w17113 Nico Voigtlaender
Hans-Joachim Voth

Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

w17106 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Institutional Comparative Statics

w17099 Ebonya L. Washington
Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting

w17098 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

w17066 Daron Acemoglu
Matthew O. Jackson

History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

w17080 Athanasios Orphanides
John Williams

Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations

w17076 Deniz Igan
Prachi Mishra
Thierry Tressel

A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

w17062 Jens Ludwig
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan

Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w16989 Stefano DellaVigna
Ruben Enikolopov
Vera Mironova
Maria Petrova
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism

w17015 Kent Smetters
Walter E. Theseira

A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions

w17012 Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel

Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan

w16966 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"

w16952 Arindrajit Dube
Ethan Kaplan
Suresh Naidu

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

w16949 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

w16948 Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao

Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China

w16939 Willa Friedman
Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel
Rebecca Thornton

Education as Liberation?

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

w16838 Daniel Treisman
The Geography of Fear

w16835 Eric J. Brunner
Stephen L. Ross
Ebonya L. Washington

Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?

w16832 Jess Benhabib
Alejandro Corvalan
Mark M. Spiegel

Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus

w16821 Rafael La Porta
Andrei Shleifer

The Unofficial Economy in Africa

w16787 Santiago Carbo-Valverde
Edward J. Kane
Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez

Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

w16765 Marianne Bertrand
Matilde Bombardini
Francesco Trebbi

Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process

w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD

w16737 Hans B. Christensen
Luzi Hail
Christian Leuz

Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Hysteresis, Implementation, and Enforcement

w16735 Pablo T. Spiller
Transaction Cost Regulation

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16718 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

Fertility and the Plough

w16693 Barry K. Goodwin
Ashok K. Mishra
François Ortalo-Magné

The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

w16682 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Pierre Yared

A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

w16667 Allan Drazen
Ethan Ilzetzki

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