What is new?
 

January 2012

Financial liberalization and political reform forthcoming in Economic Policy

Official launch of the splendid DFID-IZA programme in Paris

Superb meeting on "the 20 years" in snowy Vienna

Lobbying (i.e., IZA DP 2313) crosses the 14,000 downloads mark
 

New Year Resolutions for 2012

Focus, focus and focus. But in which order?
 

December 2011

Lobbying (i.e., IZA DP 2313) crosses the 13k downloads mark

Protest and Reform forthcoming in a Wider  volume

Utterly revised and up-dated version of Financial liberalization and political reform
    (with F Coricellli) is now available

Reform Redux is now forthcoming at the European Journal of Political Economy
 

November 2011

Lobbying (i.e., IZA DP 2313) makes the All-Time Top 10 IZA DP Downloads List
 

October 2011

Financial liberalization and political reform (with F Coricellli) presented at the 54th
    Economic Policy Panel in windy Warsaw

Lobbying reaches 12,000 downloads as IZA DP 2313
 

September 2011

Corrected proofs of Two to Tangle are on-line at the Journal of Banking and Finance
 

August  2011

Entry for the Palgrave Handbook of Economic Transition (Hare and Turley, eds) on
     growth and political and economic liberalizations (with F Coricelli)
 

July 2011

Middle Eastern Labour Market Rigidities (LAMRIG-MENA) presented at the Western
    Economic Association Meetings in rainy San Diego

Lobbying reaches 11,000 downloads as IZA DP 2313

VOX column on  Crises (Click here for Telos' version, in French)
 

June 2011

Crises (with Hsiao and Nugent) awarded  the 2010 Dudley Seers Memorial Prize
    for best article published in the Journal of Development Studies

Co-organising a workshop on Foreign Direct Investment in Low Income Countries

Since 1870: Finance and Growth in Brazil presented at the 9th IIF Conference in hazy Dublin

Labour Market Rigidities (LAMRIG-MENA) presented at the MEEA in balmy Barcelona

Does Reform Work? published at the Journal of Comparative Economics
 

May 2011

From Riches to Rags (with M Karanasos and B Tan) presented at 3rd EMG Conference
        on Emerging Markets Finance (Cass)
 

April 2011

Labour Market Regulation (LAMRIG) goes to Rennes: EPCS 2011

Two to Tangle is forthcoming at the Journal of Banking and Finance
 

March 2011

Series of Invited Lectures on European Integration, Finance and Development
    at the University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne

Lobbying reaches 10,000 downloads as IZA DP 2313
 

February 2011

New version of Labour Market Regulation (LAMRIG)  (fully revised, all new results)

New version of  Escalation (fully revised, all new results)

FDI in LICs Paradox (with R Bruno) cited in the latest Trade and Investment White Paper

New version of Two to Tangle (fully revised, some new results)
 

January 2011

Lobbying reaches the top 12 in all-time list of IZA DP downloads (Ilaria, you're a star!)

FDI in LICs Paradox (with R Bruno) presented at DFID (London)
 

New Year Resolution for 2011

Slowly does it
 

December 2010

Whither Corruption? Out as CEPR and IZA DPs (comments very much welcome)

First meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Bank of Finland (Helsinki)

Financial liberalization and political reform (with F Coricellli) at IMF-PSE Paris conference
 

November 2010

Labour Market Regulation (LAMRIG) presented in Edinburgh

Corruption as a Barrier to Entry (with S Estrin and E Proto) featured in VOX

Social Protection and Financial Development in Africa, a backgroung paper for
    the European Report on Development 2010  (with F Coricellli); featured in VOX

Crises (with Hsiao and Nugent) published in the Journal of Development Studies

Does Reform Work? is forthcoming at the Journal of Comparative Economics
 

October 2010

Draft zero of Capital Flows in the United Europe (with R Bruno) at  DG ECFIN
    research conference in Brussels

Corruption as a Barrier to Entry (with S Estrin and E Proto) out as CEPR and IZA
    DPs (comments are very much welcome!)
 

September 2010

LAMRIG goes to Manchester

Financial Globalization conference at the European Central Bank
 

August 2010

Utterly revised and up-dated version of Does Reform Work? is now available
 

July 2010

Invited presentation re ESRC Pathfinder Award at 4th Research Methods Festival in Oxford
 

June 2010

At last, FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) published in IMF Staff Papers

The late Parisian Spring may provide the perfect backdrop for Financial Development and Social
    Protection (with F Coricellli), backgroung paper for the ERD 2010

Still spreading the LAMRIG gospel (with Jeff Nugent), this time at DG Economic and Financial
    Affairs, European Commission, Brussels

Schumpeter turns 70 (born June 1995, Los Angeles, California). With us ever since, Happy
    Birthday, and many many more cat years, Schum!
 

May 2010

A couple of good weeks in Brussels, learning about (and giving advice on) some very neat
    measurement and monitoring work on structural reforms in Europe: LABREF, MICREF, LAF

Protest and Reform out this month as CEPR DP and WIDER WP

LAMRIG (with Jeff Nugent) goes to the Mother City for the 5th IZA World Bank Conference (conf)

VOX column published on Protest and Reform
 

April 2010

Second year running, I will be giving a series of Invited Lectures on Finance and
    Development at the University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne

One not to be missed: first BRIC auction at Saatchi (cf. catalogue)
 

March 2010

Second year running, the Special Session I organise was selected for the Royal Econ Soc:
    "The Crisis and Developing Countries" with T Beck, S Estrin, A Winters and F Coricelli

Lobbying made the IZA top 10, second month running.
 

February  2010

Lobbying in the top 20 all-time list of IZA DP downloads (Ilaria, don't stop now!)

Apocalypse was warmly received in Athens  this February, which is everything you need
    to know about Argentina
 

January 2010

Crises (with Hsiao and Nugent) is forthcoming at the Journal of Development Studies
 

New Year Resolutions for 2010

To update this web page at least once every two months and, hopefully, for June-July
    upload a picture of a trophy and a guy in a yellow shirt ("6 is the magic number")
 

December 2009

Lobbying crosses the 5,000 downloads mark at IZA (Ilaria, Ilaria, keep it up!)

Fractionalization and Growth (with Saleh and Kuzeyev) forthcoming at JITED, also
    featured in Vox

Financial liberalization and political reform (with F Coricellli) given at UCL
 

November 2009

The Special Session I put together for the 2010 RES Meetings (this time on The Crisis
    and Developing Countries) has been accepted
 

October 2009

I was awarded an ESRC  Pathfinder Grant

Revised LAMRIG (with J Nugent) featured at IZA Topic Week (Bonn)
 

September 2009

The Politics of Reform and The Great Transition go WIDER

Apocalypse at the 41st Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance
    Research Group (MMF)
 

August  2009

Financial liberalization, democracy and reversals (with F Coricellli) out as CEPR and IZA
    DPs (comments are very much welcome!); also featured in Vox
 

July 2009

Apocalypse presented at the Brunel Annual Macroeconomics Conference
 

June 2009

Secondment to the Office of the Chief-Economist, Department for International Development (DfID)
    starts (back full-time at Brunel in September 2011)

Rocket Scientists published in the European Journal of Political Economy

Riches to Rags (with M Karanasos and B Tan) presented at THE Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer,
    Frankfurt (NB: Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer is the main development conf in German(y))

Escalation goes to ISNIE (Berkeley)
 

May 2009

FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) is forthcoming at IMF Staff Papers
 

April 2009

Escalation featured in VOX

I organize/chair an invited session on conflict and terror at the 2009 Meetings of the Royal
    Economic Society (Ciccone, Mirza/Verdier, Campos/Gassebner, Neumayer)

Riches to Rags (with M Karanasos and B Tan) at the 17th Annual Symposium of the Society
    for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, April)
 

March 2009

LAMRIG (with J Nugent) at  IZA-fRDB Conference "Tracking Structural Reforms" in Milan

Fractionalization and Growth (with Saleh and Kuzeyev) at the CSAE Conference (Oxford)

Invited lectures on Finance, Growth and Development at the Sorbonne (Universite' Paris 1)

Ponencia invitada at the 2009 Complutense International Meeting, Madrid (20 years of transition)

Revised Reversals (with F Coricellli) at CEPR Conference on Structural Reforms without
    Prejudice (Milan)
 

February 2009

I am now a Forschungsprofessor (nt: Research Professor, by courtesy) at ETH Zurich

The 15-year drought is finally over: [Academicos do] Salgueiro Campeao 2009!!
 

January 2009

Paintings and Numbers (with R Leite) published in Oxford Economic Papers

I will be a Visiting Researcher at ETH Zurich this month

U4 supports the anti-corruption work of various aid agencies (DFID, GTZ, CIDA, etc) and even
    they seem to be warming up to the idea that lobbying rocks (click here for proof)
 

New Year Resolutions for 2009

"I Nauro F Campos do solemnly swear  that I will faithfully and to the best of my ability update
        this webpage every month of year 2009. So help me God"
 

December 2008

Two to Tangle makes the top 10 (Ilaria: keep it up, don't stop it now!)

Rocket Scientists is now forthcoming at the European Journal of Political Economy
    and out as IZA wp

I just realized that this year I've been twittering all along, albeit at a very leisurely pace
 

November 2008

Escalation (with M Gassebner) presented at CEPR workshop on Conflict, Globalization
    and Development (at the Paris School of Economics)

Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes featured in VOX

 FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) presented at the University of
    Reading
 

October 2008

Keynote speech on "Integration, Reform and Transition" at the 8th INFER International
    Economics Workshop, in Cluj (that's the capital of Transylvania)

Revised Two to Tangle out as CEPR and IZA wps
 

September 2008

Revised FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) presented at the Annual
    Conference of the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) in Accra

Two to Tangle presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance
    Research Group (MMF) in London

Revised Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes out as CEPR and IZA wps
 

August 2008

I will be a Visiting Scholar again at the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC) in late
    July to mid August (will also give Two to Tangle at the Inter-American Development Bank)
 

July 2008

Escalation goes to the Alps (with M Gassebner) for the 17th Silvaplana Workshop in
        Political Economy (NB: Silvaplana is within walking distance from St. Moritz)

I was born in a little village by the sea and I will be giving FDI and Structural Reforms
    (with Y Kinoshita) there in early July (courtesy of WIDER's CIBS2)

Growth, Volatility and Political Instability in Argentina (with M Karanasos) is published in
    Economics Letters
 

June 2008

Reversals (with F Coricellli) presented at the 15th World Congress of the International Economic
    Association (Istanbul) -- IMHO a really neat invited session with Branko and Elias
 

May 2008

Paintings and Numbers (with R Leite) featured in VOX

From Riches to Rags (with M Karanasos and B Tan) presented at CEPR conference on Finance
    and Growth (Barcelona)

Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes (with F Giovannoni) presented at the Ausschuss für
    Entwicklungsländer (Zurich), oh yep, THE Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer

Two to Tangle (with M Karanasos and B Tan) presented at 2nd EMG Conference (Cass, London)
 

April 2008

Paintings and Numbers (with R Leite) now forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers
 

March 2008

FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) featured in VOX

Whither Corruption? (with Dimova and Saleh) presented at the CSAE Conference (Oxford) and
     at the Royal Economic Society Meetings (Warwick)
 

February 2008

Two to Tangle (with M Karanasos and B Tan) presented at Centre for Financial and Management
    Studies, University of London

FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) presented at the Conference On the Causes and
      Consequences of Structural Reforms (Washington, D.C.)
 

January 2008

Growth, Volatility and Political Instability in Argentina (with M Karanasos) presented at ETH Zurich

FDI and Structural Reforms (with Y Kinoshita) presented at the AEA Meetings (New Orleans)
 

New Year Resolutions for 2008

To update my web page at least once a month (not once a year!), less mints and more surfing.