Working papers
(Last update: January 15th 2010)
 


Financial liberalization

Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals
                with Fabrizio Coricelli                                                 [ more ]
 

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Explaining the Growth Trajectory of Argentina since the 1890s
               with Menelaos Karanasos and Bin Tan                       [ more ]
 

Structural reforms

Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms
                 with Cheng Hsiao and Jeff Nugent                           [ more ]
 

Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
                 with Jan Babetskii                                                       [ more ]
 

Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
                 with Roman Horvath                                                    [ more ]
 

A New Dataset of Labor Market Rigidity and Reform Indexes for up to 145 Countries Since 1960 (LAMRIG)
                 with Jeff Nugent                                                            [ more ]
 

 Civil Society, Institutional Change and The Politics of Reform: The Great Transition
                 with László Bruszt, Jan Fidrmuc and Gérard Roland  [ more ]

 
Political instability

Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)
                with Menelaos Karanasos and Bin Tan                      [ more ]
 

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Explaining the Growth Trajectory of Argentina since the 1890s
               with Menelaos Karanasos and Bin Tan                       [ more ]
 

Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Then, Apocalypse When? Detecting Structural Breaks in Argentinean Economic Growth
               with Menelaos Karanasos and  Michail Karoglou     [ more ]
 

International Terrorism, Political Instability and The Escalation Effect
                with Martin Gassebner                                                  [ more ]
 

Corruption

Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
                with Francesco Giovannoni                                         [ more ]
 

Whither Corruption? An Econometric Survey
                with Ralitza Dimova and Ahmad Saleh                                                         [ more ]