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Important Links

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Current paper:

July 19, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

Future Papers:  

July 26, 2011
“Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences” by Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik,  Jan., 2009.   

August 2, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

August 9, 2011
“Do Soccer Players Play the Mixed-strategy Nash Equilibrium?” by Ofer H. Azar and Michael Bar-Eli.  

August 16, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

August 23, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

August 30, 2011
“What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?” by Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie, April, 2011. 

September 13, 2011
“Public Spending, Public Deficits, and Government Coalitions” by Andre Blais, Jiyoon Kim and Martial Foucault, December, 2010.  

Past papers:

July 12, 2011
“Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting” by Ebonya L. Washington,  May, 2011. 

July 5, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED 

June 28, 2011
“Policymakers' Horizon and Trade Reforms” by Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, and Maurizio Zanardi,  May, 2011.

June 21, 2011
“Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures” by Toke S. Aidt and Julia Shvets,  March, 2011.  

June 14, 2011
“Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1845-1875: Were the Civil War Years Exceptional(ly Good)?” by Pablo Querubin and James M. Snyder, Jr.,  May, 2011. 

June 7, 2011
“The Economic Benefits of Political Connections in Late Victorian Britain” by Fabio Braggion and Lyndon Moore, March 10, 2011.  

May 31, 2011
“Persistent anti-market culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust” by Irena Grosfeld, Alexander Rodyansky, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, April 19, 2011. 

May 24, 2011
“Workers of the World Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938” by Toke S. Aidt and Peter S. Jensen, April 2011. 

May 17, 2011
“The Fed May Be Politically Independent but it is not Politically Indifferent” by William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock, May 7, 2011.  

May 10, 2011
“Laws and Norms” by Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole, Feb. 2011.  

May 3, 2011
“What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes” by Giovanni Facchini and Max Friedrich Steinhardt, March, 2011.  

April 26, 2011
“Trade Policy, Economic Interests and Party Politics in a Developing Country: The Political  Economy of CAFTA” by Raymond Hicks, Helen Milner, and Dustin Tingley, April 21, 2011. 

April 19, 2011
“Commitment and Conquest: The Case of British Rule in India” by Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy, July 16, 2010. 

April 12, 2011
“Political Regimes, Institutions and the Nature of Tax Systems” by Stanely L. Winer, Lawrence W. Kenny, and Walter Hettich, May, 2010. 

April 5, 2011
“Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process” by Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi, Feb. 2011. 

March 29, 2011
“Trade and Labor Market Outcomes” by Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding, Jan. 2011.  

March 22, 2011
“Selective Trials: A Principal Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments” by Sylvain Chassang, Gerard Padro i Miquel, and Erik Snowberg, 2010.   

March 15, 2011
“Trade Policy and Antitrust: Do Consumers Matter to Legislators?” by Robert M. Feinberg,  Thomas A. Husted and Kara M. Reynolds, October, 2010. 

March 8, 2011
“Belgian Beers: Where History Meets Globalization” by Damiaan Persyn, Johan F.M. Swinnen, and Stijn Vanormelingen, 2010.  

March 1, 2011
“Prices, The Military Revolution, and Western Europe's Comparative Advantage” by Philip T. Hoffman, 2011. 

February 22, 2011
“The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies” by Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, Francois Ortalo-Magne, January, 2011.  

February 15, 2011
“Kosher Pork” by Allan Drazen, Ethan Ilzetski, Jan. 2010.  

February 8, 2011
“Media Markets, Special Interests and Voters” by Leopoldo Fergusson, Nov. 16, 2010. 

February 1, 2011
“How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics” by Glenn Ellison, September, 2010.  

January 25, 2011
“Salience Theory of Choice Under Risk” by Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer April, 2010. 

January 18, 2011
“Slavery, Education and Inequality” by Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico, 2010.

January 11, 2011
“The Role of Rentiers in the Stabilization Processes of the 1920s” by Giovanni B. Pittaluga and Elena Seghezza, 2010.   

January 4, 2011
“The Political Resource Curse” by Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti
and Guido Tabellini, January, 2010.  

December 21, 2010
“Long-term persistence: The Free and Imperial City Experience in Germany” by Marcus Jacob, July 26, 2010. 

December 14, 2010
“Friends in High Places” by Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, October 2010.

November 30, 2010
“Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences” by Timur Kuran and Anantdeep Singh, July 2010. 

November 23, 2010
“The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After 100 Years” by Robert Stavins, September 2010.   

November 9, 2010
“Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions” by Rodney D. Ludema, Anna Maria Mayda,and Prachi Mishra, September 2010.  

November 16, 2010
“The Origin of Parties: Theory, and Evidence from the United States Congress 1789-1797” by Jon X. Eguia, July 28, 2010.

October 26, 2010
“Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History” by Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin, August 20, 2010. (You must download paper directly from NBER website; file was too large to upload!) 

October 19, 2010
“Can Lower Tax Rates Be Bought? Business Rent-Seeking and Tax Competition Among U.S. States” by Robert S. Chirinko and Daniel J. Wilson, June, 2010.
   

October 12, 2010
“The Roots of Ethnic Diversity” by Pelle Ahlerup and Ola Olsson, May 25, 2010.   

October 5, 2010
“Political Regimes and Foreign Intervention.” by Toke S. Aidt and Facundo Albornoz, January 28, 2010.