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                       [ more ]
 
 

        “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                     [ more ]
 
 

        “Earnings, Schooling and Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004),” with Dean Jolliffe,
      World Bank Economic Review  21(3): 509-526, December 2007                                      [ more ]
 
 

         “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              [ more ]
 
 

         “On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization,” with Vitaliy Kuzeyev, American Journal of Political Science
          51(3): 620-639, July 2007                                                                                                   [ more ]
 
 

          “Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence,” with Francesco Giovannoni, Public Choice 131 (1): 1-21
          (volume lead article), March 2007                                                                                       [ more ]
 
 

          “Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism,” with John Beirne,
       Economics of Transition 15 (1): 57-76, January 2007                                                       [ more ]
 
 

          “What Drives Asset Stripping in Transition? Theory and Evidence,” with Francesco Giovannoni,
        Journal of Law and Economics 49 (2): 681-706, October 2006.                                      [ more ]
 
 

           “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                                       [ more ]
 
 

           “Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Hungary ,1986 to 1998,” with Dean Jolliffe,
           Labour Economics 12 (1): 1-22, February 2005 (volume lead article)                            [ more ]
 
 



 

   Selected publications (before 2005)
 
 



 

           “Aggregate Investment and Political Instability: An Econometric Investigation,” with Jeffrey B. Nugent,
          Economica 70 (3): 533-549, 2003                                                            [ PDF ]      [ Data ]
 
 

           “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                          [ PDF]
 
 

            “Who is Afraid of Political Instability?” With Jeffrey B. Nugent, Journal of Development Economics
             67 (1): 157-172, 2002                                                                              [ PDF ]        [ Data ]
 
 

            “Will the Future be Better Tomorrow? The Growth Prospects of Transition Economies Revisited,”
          Journal of Comparative Economics 29 (4): 663-676, 2001                  [ PDF ]         [ Data ]      [ Data description ]