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• Why development is hard: constituencies and losers

Discussion focus

1. Rajan, Raghuram G. 2009. "Rent Preservation and the Persistence of Underdevelopment." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(1): 178–218. View Article

2. Rajan, Raghuram and Rodney Ramcharan, 2011. "Land and Credit: A
Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the early 20th
Century." Journal of Finance, 66(6): 1895-1931. View Article

3. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, (2008 March). "Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions," American Economic Review, 98(1), 267-93. View article

• Financial solutions to political economy problems

1. Stephen Haber and Enrico Perotti (2008) "The Political Economy of Finance." View Article

2. Saumitra Jha (2011) "Sharing the Future: Financial Innovation and Innovators in
Solving the Political Economy Challenges of Development" in Bardhan and Kuran
eds. Proceedings of the International Economic Association (available on course-
work.)

3. Saumitra Jha (2010) "Financial Innovations and Political Development: Evidence
from Revolutionary England." View Article

4. Bruno Biais and Enrico Perotti (2002) "Machiavellian Privatization" American
Economic Review, 92(1), 240-258. View article

5. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (1991) “Specific factors, capital markets, portfolio diversification and free trade: domestic determinants of the repeal of the Corn Laws" World Politics, 43(4), 545-549. View article

6. Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny (1994) "Voucher privatization"
Journal of Financial Economics, 35 (2), 249-266. View article

7. Richard Sylla and Peter Rousseau (2001) "Financial systems, economic growth and
globalization" Vanderbilt working paper No. 01-W19. View article

Historical Cases: The USA, 1790s, Japan, 1850s, England, 17C-19C, Russia 20-
21C.

• Understanding ethnic and social identity

Discussion focus

1. Debraj Ray (2006) “Aspirations, poverty and economic change" chapter 28 in Banerjee, Benabou and Mookherjee eds. Understanding poverty, OUP. View article (2006 ed.); View article (2002 ed.)

2. Roland Fryer and David Austen-Smith (2005 May)”An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White"' The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(2), 551-583. View article   

3. Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara (2005) "Ethnic diversity and economic per-
formance" Journal of Economic Literature, 43(3), 762-800.* View article

4. Daniel Chen (2010) “Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis" Journal of Political Economy, 118(2), 300-354 . View article

5. Susan Athey, Emilio Calvano and Saumitra Jha (2010) "A theory of community
formation and social hierarchy", (to be posted to coursework)

Background

1. Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Saumitra Jha (2011) "Global Trade, Contract Failure
and Ethnic Assimilation: Evidence from Mexico", to be posted on coursework.

2. Ben Eifert, Edward Miguel and Dan Posner (2010) "Political Competition and
Ethnic Identification in Africa" American Journal of Political Science, 54(2), 494-510. View article

3. Saumitra Jha (2004) "Cultured economic theory", mimeo, Stanford University. View article

4. Posner, Daniel (2004) “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi" American Political Science Review, 98(4), 529-545. View article

5. Lily Tsai (2007) "Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China", American Political Science Review, 101(2), 355-372. View article

6. George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton (2000) "The economics of identity", Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 115(3), 715-753. View article

Historical Cases: Indigenous Communities in Mexico (15C-21C) Islamisation in sub-Saharan Africa (20C), Indonesia (Financial crisis)

• Ethnic and civil conflict

Discussion focus

1. Joachim Voth and Nico Voigtlander (2011) "Persecution Perpetuated: The Me-
dieval Origins of anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany" NBER working paper. View article

2. Saumitra Jha (2010) "Complementarities and religious tolerance: evidence from
India", (to be posted to coursework).

3. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (2009) "Linking conflict to inequality and polariza-
tion" mimeo, NYU. View article

4. Oeindrila Dube and Juan Vargas (2008), “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia", mimeo, Harvard. View article

5. Ernesto Dal Bo and Pedro Dal Bo (2006) "Workers, warriors and criminals: social
conflict in general equilibrium", forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic
Association. View article

6. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray, (2008) "On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict." American Economic Review, 98(5), 2185–2202. View article

Background

1. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray (1994), "On the Measurement of Polarization," Econometrica 62(4), 819-851. View article   

2. Robert Powell (2006) "War as a commitment problem" International Organization, 60(1), 169-203. View article

Historical Cases: Colombia (20C), India (6C-20C), Spain (15C) / Ottoman Empire
(15-20C)

• The aftermath of conflict

Discussion focus

1. Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson (2011) "Veterans, Organizational Skill and Ethnic Cleansing: Evidence from the Partition of South Asia", View article

2. Christopher Blattman (2010) "From violence to voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda" American Political Science Review, 103(2), 231-247. View article

3. Murat Iyigun and Erin Fletcher (2010) "The Clash of Civilizations: A Cliometric
Investigation", mimeo, Colorado. View article

4. Abadie, Alberto, and Javier Gardeazabal (2003) "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control  Study for the Basque Country." American Economic Review, 93(1), 113-132. View article

Background

1. John Bellows and Edward Miguel (2008) “War and collective action in Sierra Leone" mimeo, UC Berkeley. View article

2. Sebastian Galliani, Martin Rossi and Ernesto Schargrodsky (2006) “Conscription and crime" World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 4037. View article

3. Joshua Angrist (1990) “Lifetime earnings and the Vietnam era draft lottery: evidence from Social Security administrative records" American Economic Review, 80(3), 313-336. View article

Historical Cases: India (1947), Japan (20C), Spain (20C), Uganda (1990s-2000s)
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• Corruption and "forensic" economics

Discussion focus

1. Melissa Dell (2011) "Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War" MIT job
market paper.* View article

2. Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan and Suresh Naidu (2008) “Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information", mimeo, November version.* View article

3. Finan, Federico and Claudio Ferraz (2008) “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes", Quarterly Journal of Economics. 123 (2), 703-745.* View article

4. Paulina Oliva (2008) "Environmental Regulation and Corruption: Automobile Emis-
sions in Mexico City" UC-Berkeley job market paper.* View article

5. Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel (2008) “Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets", Journal of Political Economy. 115(6), 1020-1048. ** View article OR

6. Raymond Fisman and Shang-Jin Wei (2007), “The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques", mimeo, Columbia Business School. * View article

7. Eliana la Ferrara and Stefano della Vigna (2007),"Detecting illegal arms trade", mimeo, Boccon. View article

Background

1. Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny (1993) “Corruption”  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3), 599-617, August. View article    

2. Vito Tanzi (1997) “Corruption: Arm's Length Relationships and Markets" chapter 7 in The Economics of Organized Crime, Gianluca Fiorentini and Sam Peltzman eds., Cambridge University Press. View article

3. Raymond Fisman (2001) "Estimating the value of political connections", The American Economic Review, 91(4), 1095-1102. View article

Historical Cases: Guatemala, Iran (20C), Indonesia (20C), Mexico (21C)

• Complementarities and institutions

Discussion focus

1. Avner Greif and David Laitin (2004) "A theory of endogenous institutional change",
American Political Science Review, 98(4), 633-652.* View article

2. Paul Milgrom, Yingyi Qian and John Roberts (1991 May) "Complementarities, Momentum and the Evolution of Modern Manufacturing'' The American Economic Review, 81(2), 84-88.* View article

3. Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1990) " The Economics of Modern Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy, and Organization" American Economic Review, 80(3), 511-528. View article

Background

1. Susan Athey, Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1998) Robust Comparative Statics, mimeo, Stanford. View article

2. Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1994) "Comparing Equilibria'', American Economic Review, 84(3), 441-459. View article

3. Paul Milgrom, Susan Gates and John Roberts (1996) "Complementarities in the transition from socialism: a firm-level analysis'' in John McMillan and Barry Naughton (eds)  Reforming Asian Socialism: the Growth of Market Institutions, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. View article

Historical Cases: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic (20C)

• The importance of leaders in development

Discussion focus

1. Daron Acemoglu and Matt Jackson (2011) "History, Expectations and Leadership
in the Evolution of Social Norms" mimeo, MIT. View article

2. Ben Olken and Benjamin Jones (2005 August) “Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), 835-864.* View article

3. Ben Olken and Benjamin Jones (2007) “Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutional Change and War.” NBER Working Paper 13102.* View article

4. Gerard Padro (2007) "The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics
of Fear", Review of Economic Studies, 74(4), 1259-1274. View article

5. Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom (2010) "The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict", mimeo, Northwestern. View article

6. Edward L. Glaeser, (2005) "The Political Economy of Hatred," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(1), 45-86. View article

7. Timur Kuran (1989) "Sparks and prairie fires: a theory of unanticipated political revolution", Public Choice, 61, 41-74. View article

• Democratisation and threats to democracy

Discussion focus

1. Toke Aidt and R. Franck (2008) “How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832" Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0832. View article

2. Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico (2004 May) “Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, with an Application to Britain's Age of Reform” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(2), 707-765. View article

Background

1. Adam Przeworski (2007) "Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions" mimeo, NYU. View article

2. Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg, (2005 May) “Do democratic transitions produce bad economics outcomes?" American Economic Review, 95(2), 50-55. View article

3. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2000 November). "Why Did The West Extend The Franchise?  Democracy, Inequality, And Growth In Historical Perspective," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(4), 1167-1199. View article

4. Carles Boix (2003) Democracy and Redistribution, Cambridge University Press (Available at GSB Library i-Desk)

Historical Cases: England (19C)

• Deliberative processes

Discussion Focus

1. Ben Olken (2010) "Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a
Field Experiment in Indonesia", American Political Science Review 104(2), 243-267. View article

2. Adam Meirowitz and Dimitri Landa (2009) "Game Theory, Information and De-
liberative Democracy" American Journal of Political Science 53(2):427-444. View article

Background

1. Radu Ban, Saumitra Jha and Vijayendra Rao (2012) "Who has Voice in A Delib-
erative Democracy?: Evidence from Transcripts of Village Parliaments in South
India" (available on coursework).

2. Adam Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg (2010) "An Experimental Approach to Cit-
izen Deliberation", mimeo, Princeton. View article

3. Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa (2007) "Deliberation as Self-Discovery and
Institutions for Political Speech" Journal of Theoretical Politics, 19(3), 329-360. View article

4. Adam Meirowitz (2007) "In Defense of Exclusionary Deliberation: Communica-
tion and Voting with Private Beliefs and Values" Journal of Theoretical Politics,
19(3), 301-327. View article

5. Keith Krehbiel (2004) "Legislative Organization" Journal of Economic Perspec-
tives, 18(1), 113-128. View article

6. Vincent Crawford and Joel Sobel (1982) "Strategic Information Transmission"
Econometrica, 50(6):1431-1451. View article

• Political open economy macroeconomics

1. Man-Keung Tan and Shang-Jin Wei (2009) "The Value of Making Commitments
Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions" Journal of International Economics,
2009, 78(2), 216-229. View article

2. Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-JinWei (2007) "Assessing China's exchange rate regime"
NBER Working Paper No. 13100. View article

Historical Cases: China (20-21C)

• Political economy of trade

1. Helen Milner and Bumba Mukherjee (2011) "Democracy and Trade Policy in Devel-
oping Countries: Particularism and Domestic Politics with a case study of India",
mimeo, Princeton. View article

2. Rikhil Bhavnani and Saumitra Jha (2011) "Trade Shocks, Mass Movements and
Democratic Insurrection: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle" (to be
posted to coursework)

3. Petia Topalova (2010) "Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberal-
ization: Evidence on Poverty from India." American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics, 2(4): 141. View article

4. J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova and Christopher Meissner (2008) "The Impact of In-
ternational Trade on Democracy: A Long Run Perspective" World Politics 60, 4,
539-575. View article

Background

1. Helen Milner and Bumba Mukherjee (2009) "Democratization and Economic Glob-
alization" Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 163-181. View article

2. Ron Rogowski (1989) Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments , Princeton University Press. (Available at GSB Library i-Desk)

Historical Cases Latin America (20C), South Asia (20C)