Sister Groups

Harvard Political
Economy Group

UC San Diego
Political Economy Group

Reading Groups

Political Economy Reading Group

(attendence by invitation only)

• Cities, Constitutions, and Sovereign - Borrowing in Europe 1274-1785
  by David Stasavage. Reading for week of January 31, 2006.
• Democratic Transitions
  by David L. Epstein, Robert Bates, Jack Goldstone & Sharyn O'Halloran. Reading for week of January 24, 2006.
• Politically Connected Firms
  by Mara Faccio. Reading for week of January 17, 2006
• Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?
  by Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund. Reading for week of December 13, 2005.
• The Elusive Curse of Oil
  by Michael Alexeev and Robert Conrad. Reading for week of December 6, 2005.
• An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
  by Roland G. Fryer and Paul Torelli. Reading for week of November 29, 2005.
• Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise In Housing Prices
  by Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven Saks. Reading for week of November 22, 2005.
• Measuring Risk: Political Risk Insurance Premiums and Domestic Political Institutions
  by Nathan Jensen. Reading for week of November 15, 2005.
• When Can History Be Our Guide? The Pitfalls of Counterfactual Inference
  by Gary King and Langche Zeng. Reading for week of November 8, 2005.
• Minimum-Winning Coalitions and Personalization in Authoritarian Regimes
  by Barbara Geddes. Reading for week of November 1, 2005
• Why We Learn Nothing from Regressing Economic Growth on Policies
  by Dani Rodrik. Reading for week of October 25, 2005.
• Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico
  by Beatriz Magaloni. Reading for week of October 18, 2005.
• The Killing Game: Reputation and Knowledge in Non-Democratic Succession
  by Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. Reading for week of October 11, 2005
• Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
  by Frederico Finan, UC Berkeley and Claudio Ferraz, UC Berkeley and IPEA. Reading for October 4, 2005
• Global Crises, Global Solutions
  edited by Bjørn Lomborg. Reading for week of June 14, 2005.
• The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam
  by Edward Miguel and Gérard Roland. Reading for week of June 7, 2005.
• The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
  by Gordon B. Dahl and Enrico Moretti. Reading for week of May 24, 2005.
• Growing Public: Is the Welfare State Mortal or Exportable?
  by Peter H. Lindert. Reading for week of May 17, 2005.
• What Does the Public Know About Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
  by Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger. Reading for week of May 10, 2005.
• On The Process of Growth and Economic Policy in Developing Countries
  by Aznold C. Harberger. Reading for week of May 3, 2005.
• World Development Report 2006 - Equity and Development
  Executive Summary from the World Bank. Reading for week of April 26, 2005.
• The Natural State: The Political Economy of Non-Development
  by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. Reading for week of April 19, 2004.
• The Papal Conclave: How Do Cardinals Divine the Will of God?
  By J.T. Toman. Reading for week of April 12, 2005.
• Income and Democracy
  by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared. Reading for week of March 29, 2005.
• Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
  by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Reading for week of March 22, 2005.

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