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Important Links

• All PE Group Papers
  
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
• Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Current paper:

November 24, 2009
“Political Institutions and Sovereign Borrowing: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Argentina” by Sebastian M. Saiegh.  

Future Papers:

December 1, 2009
“Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment” by Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, and Ebonya Washington, Sept. 2009.

December 8, 2009
“Commitment Problems and Shifting Power as a Cause of Conflict” by Robert Powell, Nov. 6, 2009.

Past Papers:

November 17, 2009
“Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection” by Stefano Gagliarducci and Tommaso Nannicini, Sept. 2009.   

November 10, 2009
“Is Modern Macro or 1978-era Macro More Relevant to the Understanding of the Current Economic Crisis” by Robert J. Gordon, August 2009.  

November 3, 2009
“Civil War Termination” by James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, September 2007.

October 27, 2009
"The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment" by Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian, July 2009.

October 20, 2009
“Terrorist Factions,” by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

October 13, 2009
“The Real Swing Voter's Curse,” by James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik

October 6, 2009
“Ottoman De-industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response,” by Sevket Pamuk, Jeffrey G. Williamson

September 29, 2009
“Diaspora Bonds and Cross Border Capital,” by David Leblang

September 22, 2009
“Integrated Political Strategy,” by John M. de Figueiredo 

September 15, 2009
“Policymakers' Horizon and Economic Reforms,” by Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Maurizio Zanardi

September 8, 2009
“Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point,” by William Easterly

September 1, 2009
“Strategic Uncertainty as a Cause of War”, by Adam Meirowitz and Anne E. Sartori

August 11, 2009
“The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending”, by Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, and William G. Howell

August 4, 2009
“Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration”, by David Leblang, Jennifer Fitzgerald, and Jessica Teets

July 21, 2009
“Can Lobbying Prevent Anticompetitive Outcomes? Evidence on Consumer Monopsony in Telecommunications”, by Dino Falaschetti

July 28, 2009
“Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns: The Roles of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance”, by Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra