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The following are papers presented during the 2005-2006 academic year in the Faculty Discussion Group on Political Economy:

Tuesday, June 27th:
"Citizenship versus Ethnicity: The Role of Institutions in Shaping Identity Choice" by E. Maggie Penn (May 2006). 

Tuesday, June 20th:
"Electoral Bias and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence" by Timothy Besley and Ian Preston (February 2006).

Tuesday, June 13th:
"Liberty, Fraternity, Equality and Industry: The Economic Consequences of the French Revolution" by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (February 2006).

Tuesday, June 6th:
"The Political Economy of 'Truth-in-Advertising' Regulation During the Progressive Era" by Zeynep Hansen and Marc Law (January 2006).

Tuesday, May 30th:
"Special Interests and Political Business Cycles" by March Bonomo and Christina Terra (September 2005).

Tuesday, May 9th:
"Red States, Blue States and the Welfare State: Political Geography, Representation and Government Policy Around the World" by Jonathan Rodden (January 2006).

Tuesday, May 2nd:
"The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies?" by Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales (February 2006).

Tuesday, April 25th:
"Collective Violence: Comparisons between Youths and Chimpanzees" by Richard W. Wrangham and Michael L. Wilson (2004).

Tuesday, April 11th:
"Bureaucratic Decision Costs and Endogenous Agency Expertise" by Matthew C. Stephenson (March 2006).

Tuesday, March 21st:
"A Political-Economy Theory of Trade Agreements" by Giovanni Maggi and Andres Rodriguez-Clare (October 2005).

Tuesday, March 14th:
"The Structure of Lobying and Protection in U.S. Agriculture" by Kishore Gawande (September 2005).

Tuesday, March 7th:
"Local Public Good Provision: Voting, Peer Effects and Mobility" by Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple, Thomas Romer and Holger Sieg (October 2005).

Tuesday, February 28th:
"Institutions and Development: A View from Below" by Rohini Pande and Christopher Udry (November 2005).

Tuesday, February 21st:
"Path Dependence" by Scott E. Page (2006).

Tuesday, February 14th:
"A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies" by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson (December 2005).

Tuesday, February 7th:
"Evaluating Political Questions: Evidence from Functional Brain Imaging" by Darren Schreiber (September 2004).

Tuesday, January 31st:
"Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?" by Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund (2005).

Tuesday, January 24th:
"Daughters and Left-Wing Voting" by Andrew J. Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee (December 2005).

Tuesday, January 17th:
"A Re-Examination of the Border Effect" by Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Linda Tesar (October 2005).

Tuesday, January 10th:
"Is There Consumer Demand for Improved Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Labeling" by Michael J. Hiscox and Nicholas F.B. Smyth.  Summary also available.

Tuesday, January 3rd:
"Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion and Bureaucratic Expertise" by Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty (November 2005).

Tuesday, December 20th:
"Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics" by Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman (June 2005).

Tuesday, December 13th:
"Postelection Bargaining and Voter Behavior: Towards a General Spatial Theory of Voting" by Christian H.C.A. Henning, Melvin Hinich and Susumu Shikano (December 2005).

Tuesday, December 6th:
"Political Predation and Economic Development" by Jean Paul Azam, Robert Bates and Bruno Biais (March 2005).

Tuesday, November 29th:
"An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'," by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Paul Torelli (May 2005).

Tuesday, November 22nd:
"Supersanctions and Soveriegn Debt Repayment" by Kris James Mitchener and Marc D. Weidenmier (June 2005).

Tuesday, November 15th:
"Inside the Black Box of 'White Flight': The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods" by Leah Platt Boustan (September 2005).

Tuesday, November 8th:
"Why We Learn Nothing from Regressing Economic Growth on Policies" by Dani Rodrik (March 2005).

Tuesday, November 1st:
"Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States" by Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson and Daniel Sturm (June 2005).

Tuesday, October 25th:
"The Ties that Divide: A Network Analysis of the International Monetary System, 1890-1910" by Marc Flandreau and Clemens Jobst (April 2005).

Tuesday, October 18th:
"Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development and the Resource CUrse in the U.S. States, 1929-2002" by Ellis Goldberg, Erik Wibbels and Eric Mvukiyehe (August 2005).

Tuesday, October 11th:
"Defending Against Terrorist Attacks with Limited Resources" by Robert Powell (August 2005).

Tuesday, September 27th:
"Peacekeepers as Signals: the Demand for International Peacekeeping in Civil Wars" by Page Fortna and Lisa L. Martin (July 2005).

Tuesday, September 20th:
"Cities, Constitutions and Soveriegn Borrowing in Europe, 1274-1785" by David Stasavage (August 2005).

Tuesday, September 13th:
"Culture and Institutions: Economic Develipment in the Regions of Europe" by Guido Tabellini (July 2005).

Tuesday, September 6th:
"How Law and Institutions Shape Financial Contracts: the Case of Bank Loans" by Jun Qian and Philip E. Strahan (January 2005).

Tuesday, August 30th:
"What Makes Humans Economically Distinctive? A Three-Species Evolutionary Comparison and Historical Analysis" by Christopher Boehm (2004).

Tuesday, August 2nd:
" 'Revisionism' Reconsidered: Exports and American Intervention in the First World War" by Benjamin O. Fordham.

Tuesday, July 26th:
"Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism" by Jose Antonio Cheibub, Adam Prezeworski and Sebastian M. Saiegh (2004).

Tuesday, July 19th:
"Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America" by Leandro Prados de la Escosura (December 2004).

Tuesday, July 12th:
"Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects?" by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Michael L. Bognanno (December 1990).

Tuesday, July 5th:
"Electoral Institutions and Real Prices Around the World, 1972-2000: Theory and Evidence" by Drew A. Linzer and Ronald L. Rogowski (November 2004).