Publications (since 2005)
“Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices
and Returns in Latin American
Art Auctions," with Renata Leite, forthcoming in Oxford Economic
Papers
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“Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence
for Argentina, 1896-2000,”
with Menelaos Karanasos, Economics Letters 100 (1), 135-137
July 2008
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“Earnings, Schooling and Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004),”
with Dean Jolliffe,
World Bank Economic Review 21(3): 509-526, December
2007
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“Institutional Barriers to Entry: Evidence from the Brazilian Textiles
and Electronics Industries,” with
Mariana Iootty, Economic Systems (special issue on “Entry
and Barriers to Entry in Emerging Markets,”
Guest editors: Nauro Campos and Saul Estrin), 31(4): 346-363, December
2007
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“On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization,” with Vitaliy Kuzeyev, American
Journal of Political Science
51(3): 620-639, July 2007
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“Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence,” with Francesco Giovannoni,
Public
Choice 131 (1): 1-21
(volume lead article), March 2007
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“Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism,”
with John Beirne,
Economics of Transition
15 (1): 57-76, January 2007
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“What Drives Asset Stripping in Transition? Theory and Evidence,” with
Francesco Giovannoni,
Journal of Law and Economics 49
(2): 681-706, October 2006.
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“Jamais À Midi: Sur La Nature et Les Causes De L’Economie
Informel dans la Transition,”
Revue D’études Comparatives Est-Ouest, 37 (1),
March 2006
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“Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Hungary ,1986
to 1998,” with Dean Jolliffe,
Labour Economics 12 (1): 1-22, February 2005 (volume lead article)
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Selected publications (before 2005)
“Aggregate Investment and Political Instability: An Econometric Investigation,”
with Jeffrey B. Nugent,
Economica 70 (3): 533-549, 2003
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“Growth in Transition: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What We Should,”
with Fabrizio Coricelli,
Journal of Economic Literature XL (3): 793-836, 2002
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“Who is Afraid of Political Instability?” With Jeffrey B. Nugent, Journal
of Development Economics
67 (1): 157-172, 2002
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“Will the Future be Better Tomorrow? The Growth Prospects of Transition
Economies Revisited,”
Journal of Comparative Economics 29 (4): 663-676, 2001
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