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Previous Papers:

July 21, 2009
"Can Lobbying Prevent Anticompetitive Outcomes? Evidence on Consumer Monopsony in Telecommunications" by Dino Falaschetti (June 4, 2008).

July 14, 2009
"Why Was It That Europeans Conquered the World?" by Philip T. Hoffman (April 26, 2009).

July 7, 2009
"The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S." by Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Caroline M. Hoxby, Andreu Mas-Colell, and André Sapir (April 2009). 

June 30, 2009
"Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia" by Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (March 2009).

June 23, 2009
"Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement" by Caroline M. Hoxby and Sonali Murarka (April 2009).

June 16, 2009
"War and Relatedness" by Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg (May 2009).

June 9, 2009
"Do Political Incentives Matter for Tax Policies? Ideology, Opportunism and the Tax Structure" by Konstantinos Angelopoulosa, George Economides, Pantelis Kammasc (Feb. 26, 2009).

May 26, 2009
"Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability" by Paola Conconi, Nicolas Sahuguet, and Maurizio Zanardi (July, 2008).

May 19, 2009
"Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy" by Ruben Durante and Brian Knight (March, 2009).

May 12, 2009
"Why did Canada Nationalize Liquor Sales in the 1920's?: A Political Economy Story" by Ruth Dupre (November, 2008).

May 5, 2009
"How Globalization Affects Tax Design" by James R. Hines, Jr. (January, 2009).

April 14, 2009
"History Without Evidence: Latin American Inequality Since 1491" by Jeffrey G. Williamson (March, 2009).

March 24, 2009
"On the Looting of Nations" by Mare Sarr, Erwin Bulte, Chris Meissner, and Tim Swanson (June 25, 2008).

March 17, 2009
"The Impact of Party Organization on Electoral Outcomes" by Micael Castanheira, Benoit S. Crutzen, and Nicolas Sahuguet (2008).

March 10, 2009
"The Flypaper Effect" by Robert P. Inman (2008).

March 3, 2009
"A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization" by John William Hatfield and Gerard Padro i Miquel (2008).

February 24, 2009
"For Sale: Trade Policy in Majoritarian Systems" by Per G. Frederiksson, Xenia Matschke, Jenny Minier (June 2008).

February 17, 2009
"The Incidence of Civil War:Theory and Evidence" by Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson (2008).

February 10, 2009
"Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization" by Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik (2008).

February 3, 2009
"How Do States Formulate Medicaid and SCHIP Policy?Economic and Political Determinants of State Eligibility Levels" by Reagan Baughman and Jeffrey Milyo.

January 27, 2009
"Measuring Explicit Political Positions of Media" by Daniel E. Ho and Kevin M. Quinn. (June 2008).

January 20, 2009
"Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy" by Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding. (November 2008).

January 6, 2009
"Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India" by Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani. (August 2008).

December 23, 2008
"Policy Shaping Politics: Monetary Policy Deliberations in Congressional Hearings, 1976-2005" by Andrew Bailey and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. (April 18-19, 2008).

December 16, 2008
"Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II, 1556-1598" by Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. (October 2008).

December 9, 2008
"Historical Political Futures Markets: An International Perspective" by Paul W. Rhode and Koleman Strumpf. (October 2008).

December 2, 2008
"Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis" by Nathan Nunn. (October 2007).

November 25, 2008
"Redistribution and Pork in Two-Party Competition" by John D. Huber and Michael M. Ting. (Nov. 9, 2008).

November 18, 2008
"How to Get the Snowball Rolling and Extend the Franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832" by Toke S. Aidt and Raphaël Franck. (August 2008).

November 4, 2008
"Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Studying Development across the Americas" by Miriam Bruhn and Francisco A. Gallego. (June 2008).

October 28, 2008
"Taxation and Representation in Recent History" by Jeffrey F. Timmons.

October 21, 2008
"How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005" by Patricia Funk and Christina Gathmann. (August 2008).

October 14, 2008
"The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Phillipine Frontier Under America Rule, 1898-1918" by Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer. (September 2008).

October 7, 2008
"Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test" by Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, and Paolo Naticchioni (February 2008).

Tuesday, September 30th:
"Ideological Extremism and Electoral Design: Multimember versus Single Member Districts" by Anthony Bertelli and Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr. (2008).

Tuesday, September 23th:
"Democracy in America: Labour Mobility, Ideology and Constitutional Reform" by Roger D. Congleton (December 2007).

Tuesday, September 16th:
"A Simple Political Economy of Relations among Democracies and Autocracies" by James D. Fearon (August 2008).

Tuesday, September 9th:
"Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century" by Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken (June 2008).