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The following are papers presented during the 2001-2002 academic year in the Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy:

Tuesday, June 25th:
"Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements" by Jessica Seddon and Romain Wacziarg (October 2001).

Tuesday, June 18th:
"Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda" by Stephen Coate and Michael Conlin (February 2002). Tables available here.

Tuesday, June 4th:
"Entry and Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers" by Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud (February 2002).

Tuesday, May 28th:
"The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century" by Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales (December 2001).

Tuesday, May 21st:
"The Political Economy of Foreign Bank Entry and its Impact: Theory and a Case Study" by Gabriel Montinola and Ramon Moreno (October 2001).

Tuesday, May 14th:
"The Curley Effect" by Edward L Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (May 2002).

Tuesday, May 7th:
"The Domestic Politics of Banking Regulation" by Frances Rosenbluth and Ross Schapp (April 2002).

Tuesday, April 30th:
"Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production" by Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter (April 2002).

Tuesday, April 23rd:
"Presidential Vetoes in the Early Republic" by Nolan McCarty.

Tuesday, April 16th:
"The Labor Supply of the Early Roman Empire" by Peter Temin (November 2001).

Tuesday, April 9th:
"The Trouble with Electricity Markets: Understanding California's Restructuring Disaster" by Severin Borenstein (Winter 2002).

Tuesday, April 2nd:
"Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation" by Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra (January 2002).

Tuesday, March 19th:
"In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance" by Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik (January 2002).

Tuesday, March 12th:
"A New World Order: Explaining the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard" by Christopher M. Meissner (August 2001). An animated illustration of the gold standard argument can be found here.

Tuesday, March 5th:
"The Wealth of Nations: Fundamental Forces versus Poverty Traps" by David E. Bloom, David Canning and Jaypee Sevilla (January 2002).

Tuesday, February 26th:
"The Political Economy of Clientelism" by James A. Robinson and Thierry Verdier (October 2001).

Tuesday, February 19th:
"The International Economy and Presidential Approval" by Barry C. Burden and Anthony Mughan.

Tuesday, February 12th:
"Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm" by George Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy (June 2001).

Tuesday, February 5th:
"The Fiscal Impact of the Brain Drain: Indian Emigration to the U.S." by Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur and John McHale (December 2001).

"Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows" by Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur and John McHale (September 2001).

Tuesday, January 29th:
"Trade, Growth and Poverty" by David Dollar and Aart Kraay (March 2001).

Response: "Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Is the World Bank Beginning to Get It?" by Dani Rodrik (December 2001).

Response: "Comments on 'Trade, Growth and Poverty' by D. Dollar and A. Kraay" by Dani Rodrik (October 2000).

Tuesday, January 22nd:
"The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties" by Suzanne Scotchmer (August 2001).

Tuesday, January 15th:
"The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India" by Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess (August 2001).

Tuesday, January 8th:
"Resources and Incentives to Reform: A Model and Some Evidence on Sub-Saharan African Countries" by Alberto Dalmazzo and Guido de Blasio (June 2001).

Tuesday, December 18th:
"Religion, Economy and Society in an International Panel" by Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary (October 2001).

Tuesday, December 11th:
"Why Do Many Disinflations Fail?" by A. Javier Hamann and Alessandro Prati (November 2001).

Tuesday, December 4th:
"The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of the Delay in the Middle East's Economic Modernization" by Timur Kuran (March 2001).

Tuesday, November 27th:
"The Rise of the Regulatory State" by Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (August 2001).

Tuesday, November 20th:
"Economics of Alliances: The Lessons for Collective Action" by Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley (September 2001).

Tuesday, November 13th:
"Regional Influences on U.S. Monetary Policy: Some Implications for Europe" by Ellen E. Meade and D. Nathan Sheets (October 2001).

Tuesday, November 6th:
"And the Last Shall be First: Federalism and Fiscal Outcomes in Germany" by Jonathan Rodden (October 2001).

Tuesday, October 30th:
"The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Control Study for the Basque Country" by Alberto Abadie and Jabier Gardeazabal (September 2001).

Tuesday, October 23rd:
"Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War" by George J. Hall (August 2001).

Tuesday, October 16th:
"Private Politics" by David Baron (May 2001).

Tuesday, October 9th:
"Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution" by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson (2001).

Tuesday, October 2nd:
"The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches" by Kishore Gawande and Pravin Krishna (2001).

Tuesday, September 25th:
"A Comparative Theory of Electoral Incentives: Representing the Unorganized under PR, Plurality and Mixed-Member Electoral Systems" by Kathleen Bawn and Michael Thies (2001).

Tuesday, September 18th:
"Institutionalism as a Methodology" by Daniel Diermeier and Keith Krehbiel (August 2001).

Tuesday, September 11th:
"Incentives and Organizations in the Public Sector: An Interpretative Review" by Avinash Dixit (May 2000).

Tuesday, September 4th:
"The Political Economy of International Bailouts: Congressional Voting on Bailout Legislation in the 1990s" by J. Lawrence Broz (2001).

Tuesday, August 28th:
"Silver Signals: Twenty-Five Years of Screening and Signaling" by John G. Riley (June 2001).

Tuesday, August 21st:
"Economic, Political and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective" by Caroline Fohlin.

Tuesday, August 14th:
"Sustaining Fixed Rates: The Political Economy of Currency Pegs in Latin America" by S. Brock Blomberg, Jeff Frieden and Ernesto Stein.

Tuesday, August 7th:
"The Bank, the States and the Market: An Austro-Hungarian Tale for Euroland, 1867-1914" by Marc Flandreau (March 2001).

Tuesday, July 31st:
"Public Demand for Low Inflation" by Kenneth Scheve.

Tuesday, July 24th:
"Coalition Brokers or Breakers? Brazilian Governors and Legislative Voting" by John M. Carey and Gina Yannitell Reinhardt (April 2001).

Tuesday, July 17th:
"From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization" by William L. Megginson and Jeffry M. Netter (June 2001).

Tuesday, July 10th:
"Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade" by James E. Rauch and Vitor Trindade (December 2000).

Tuesday, July 3rd:
"Economic Growth Amidst Political Instability: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico" by Stephen Haber, Armando Razo and Noel Maurer.