Selected faculty publications - past

Daniel M. Sturm, Stephan Heblich, Stephen J Redding. 2020. The Making of Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135, (4), pp. 2059-2133.

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, Anna Vitali. 2020. Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labour Market Experiment in Uganda. Econometrica, 88, (6), pp. 2369-2414.

L. Rachel Ngai, Kevin D. Sheedy. 2020. The Decision to Move House and Aggregate Housing – Market Dynamics. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, (5), pp. 2487-2531.

Balázs Szentes, George Georgiadis. 2020. Optimal Monitoring Design. Econometrica, 88, (5), pp. 2075-2107.

Daniel Reck, Jacob Goldin. 2020. Revealed-Preference Analysis with Framing Effects. Journal of Political Economy, 128, (7), pp. 2759 – 2795.

Tim Besley. 2020. State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract. Econometrica, 88, (4), pp. 1307-1335.

John Van Reenen, Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Rafaella Sadun. 2020. Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 102, (3), pp. 506-517.

Silvana Tenreyro, Tiloka de Silva. 2020. The Fall in Global Fertility: A Quantitative Model. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 12, (3), pp. 77-109.

Shengxing Zhang, Ricardo Lagos. 2020. Turnover Liquidity and the Transmission of Monetary Policy. American Economic Review, 110, (6), pp. 21635-72.

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Edward Davenport, Scott S. Lee. 2020. Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services. American Economic Review, 110, (5), pp. 1355-94.

John Van Reenen, David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson. 2020. The fall of the Labor Share and the Rise in Superstar Firms. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135, (2), pp. 645-709.

Ashraf, Nava,  Erica Field, Giuditta Rusconi, Alessandra Voena, and Roberta Ziparo. 2017. Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia. American Economic Review, 107 (5), pp. 511-515.

Ashraf, Nava and Bandiera, Oriana. 2017. Altruistic Capital. American Economic Review, 107 (5), pp. 70-75.

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman. 2017. Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132 (2), pp. 811–870.

Besley, Timothy, and Maitreesh Ghatak. 2017. Profit with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9 (3), pp. 19-58.

Besley, Timothy, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, and Johanna Rickne. 2017. Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden. American Economic Review, 107 (8), pp. 2204-2242.

Ellis, Andrew, and Michele Piccione. 2017. Correlation Misperception in Choice. American Economic Review, 107 (4), pp. 1264-1292.

Garicano, Luis, and Luis Rayo. 2017. Relational Knowledge Transfers. American Economic Review, 107 (9), pp. 2695-2730.

Galenianos, Manolis and Alessandro Gavazza. 2017. A Structural Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs. American Economic Review, 107 (3), pp. 858-896.

Levy, Gilat, and Ronny Razin. 2017. The Coevolution of Segregation, Polarized Beliefs, and Discrimination: The Case of Private versus State Education. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 9 (4), pp. 141-170.

Manning, Alan, and Barbara Petrongolo. 2017. How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model. American Economic Review, 107 (10), pp. 2877-2907.

Graetz, Georg, and Guy Michaels. 2017. Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?. American Economic Review, 107 (5), pp. 168-173.

Ngai, L Rachel, and Barbara Petrongolo. 2017. Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 9 (4), pp. 1-44.

Karun Adusumilli & Taisuke Otsu. 2017. Empirical Likelihood for Random Sets. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 112 (519), pp. 1064-1075.

Angrist, Joshua D, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2017. Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (2), pp. 125-144.

Grossman, Gene M, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield, and Thomas Sampson. 2017. Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa. American Economic Review, 107 (4), pp. 1293-1312.

Sampson, Thomas. 2017. Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (4), pp. 163-184.

Thomassen, Øyvind, Howard Smith, Stephan Seiler, and Pasquale Schiraldi. 2017. Multi-category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing. American Economic Review, 107 (8), pp. 2308-2351.

Guimaraes, B and Sheedy, Kevin D. 2017. Guarding the Guardians. The Economic Journal, 127, pp. 2441–2477.

Spinnewijn, Johannes. 2017. Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance, and Adverse Selection. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9 (1), pp. 308-343.

Nicholas Stern and Tony Atkinson. 2017 Tony Atkinson on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy: The Work and Life of a Great Economist. Annual Review of Economics, 9, pp. 1-20.

de Silva, Tiloka, and Silvana Tenreyro. 2017. Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (4), pp. 205-228.

Roesler, Anne-Katrin, and Balázs Szentes. 2017. Buyer-Optimal Learning and Monopoly Pricing. American Economic Review, 107 (7), pp. 2072-2080.

Aghion, Philippe, Ufuk Akcigit, Angus Deaton and Alexandra Roulet. 2016. Creative Destruction and Subjective Well-Being. American Economic Review, 106 (12), pp. 3869-3897.

Murray, Fiona, Aghion, Philippe, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern. 2016. Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8 (1), pp. 212-252.

Aghion, Philippe and Matthew O Jackson. 2016. Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8 (3), pp. 1-38.

Aghion, Philippe, Dechezleprêtre, Antoine, Hémous, David, Martin, Ralf, and Van Reenen, John. 2016. Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry. Journal of Political Economy, 124 (1), pp. 1-51.

Ashraf, Nava, Edward L Glaeser, and Giacomo A M Ponzetto. 2016. Infrastructure, Incentives, and Institutions. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 106 (5), pp. 77–82.

Arcidiacono, Peter, Esteban M Aucejo and Hotz V Joseph. 2016. University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California. American Economic Review, 106 (3), pp. 525-562.

Bean, Charles. 2016. Living with Low for Long. The Economic Journal, 126 (592), pp. 507–522.

Caselli Francesco and Tesei Andrea. 2016. Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (3), pp. 573-590.

Gavazza, Alessandro. 2016. An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market. Econometrica, 84 (5), pp. 1755–1798.

Garicano, Luis, Claire Lelarge and John Van Reenen. 2016. Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France. American Economic Review, 106 (11), pp. 3439-3479.

Garicano, Luis and Steinwender, Claudia. 2016. Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 98 (5), pp. 913-924.

Brunnermeier, Markus K., Luis Garicano, Philip R. Lane, Marco Pagano, Ricardo Reis, Tano Santos, David Thesmar, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Dimitri Vayanos. 2016. The Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop and ESBies. American Economic Review, 106 (5), pp. 508-512.

Garicano, Luis and Luis Rayo. 2016. Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases. Journal of Economic Literature, 54 (1), pp. 137-192.

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven. 2016. Bunching. Annual Review of Economics, 8. pp. 435-464.

Dwenger, Nadja, Henrik Kleven, Imran Rasul and Johannes Rincke. 2016. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8 (3), pp. 203-232.

Levy, Matthew and Balázs Szentes. 2016. An Alternative to Signaling: Directed Search and Substitution. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8(4), pp. 1-15.

Levy, Matthew and Tasoff, Joshua. 2016. Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption. Journal of the European Economic Association, 14 (3), pp. 545–789.

Autor, David H., Alan Manning and Christopher L. Smith. 2016. The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8 (1), pp. 58-99.

Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis. 2016.The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle. Econometrica, 84 (1), pp. 141-194. 

Sampson Thomas. 2016. Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (1), pp. 315-380.

Cockburn, Iain, Lanjouw, Jean O and Schankerman, Mark. 2016. Patents and the global diffusion of new drugs. American Economic Review, 106 (01), pp. 136-164.  

Sutton John and Trefler Daniel. 2016. Capabilities, Wealth and Trade. Journal of Political Economy, 124 (3), pp. 826 – 878.

Tenreyro, Silvana and Gregory Thwaites. 2016. Pushing on a String: US Monetary Policy Is Less Powerful in Recessions. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 8 (4), pp. 43-74.

Nick Bloom, Mirko Draca, and John Van Reenen. 2016. Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation and Information Technology. Review of Economic Studies, 83 (1), pp. 87-117.

Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen. 2016.International Data on Measuring Management Practices. American Economic Review, 106 (5), pp. 152-156.

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. 2016. Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (2), pp. 519-578.

Aghion, Philippe, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Hemous, David, Martin, Ralf and Van Reenen, John (2015) Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry. Journal of Political Economy, 124 (1). pp. 1-51.

Besley, Timothy, Fetzer, Thiemo and Mueller, Hannes (2015) The welfare cost of lawlessness: evidence from Somali piracy. Journal of the European Economic Association, 13 (2), pp. 203-239.

Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, and Zinman, Jonathan (2015) Referrals: peer screening and enforcement in a consumer credit field experiment. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7 (3), pp. 174-204.

Burgess, Robin, Jedwab, Remi, Miguel, Edward, Morjaria, Ameet, and Padró i Miquel, Gerard  (2015) The value of democracy: evidence from road building in Kenya. American Economic Review, 105 (6), pp. 1817-1851.

LSE Research Online

Caselli, Francesco, Morelli, Massimo and Rohner, Dominic (2015). The geography of interstate resource wars. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (1), pp. 267-315.

Fischer, Greg, and Karlan, Dean (2015) The catch-22 of external validity in the context of constraints to firm growth. American Economic Review, 105 (5), pp. 295-299.

Fuchs, William, Garicano, Luis, and Rayo, Luis (2015) Optimal contracting and the organization of knowledge. Review of Economic Studies 82 (2), pp. 632-658.

Coeurdacier, Nicolas, Stéphane Guibaud and Jin Keyu (2015) Credit constraints and growth in a global economy. American Economic Review, 105(9), pp. 2838-2881.

Best, Michael Carlos, Brockmeyer, Anne, Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen, Spinnewijn, Johannes and Waseem, Mazhar (2015) Production versus revenue efficiency with limited tax capacity: Theory and evidence from Pakistan. Journal of Political Economy 123 (6), pp. 1311-1355.

Landais, Camille (2015) Assessing the welfare effects of unemployment benefits using the regression kink design. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7 (4), pp. 243-278.

Lalive, Rafael, Landais, Camille, and Zweimüller, Josef (2015) Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs. American Economic Review, 105 (12), pp. 3564-3596.

Levy, Gilat, and Razin, Ronny (2015) Correlation neglect, voting behavior, and information aggregation. American Economic Review, 105 (4), pp. 1634-1645.

Levy, Gilat, and Razin, Ronny (2015) Preferences over equality in the presence of costly income sorting. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7 (2), pp. 308-337.

Michaillat, Pascal and Saez, Emmanuel (2015) Aggregate demand, idle time, and unemployment. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130 (2), pp. 507-569.

LSE Research Online

Galasso, Alberto and Schankerman, Mark (2015) Patents and cumulative innovation: causal evidence from the courts. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130 (1), pp. 317-369.

Spinnewijn, Johannes (2015) Unemployed but optimistic: optimal insurance design with biased beliefs. Journal of the European Economic Association, 13 (1), pp. 130-167.

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Redding, Stephen J., Sturm, Daniel M. and Wolf, Nikolaus (2015) The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall. Econometrica, 83 (6), pp. 2127-2189.

Szentes, Balázs (2015) Contractible contracts in common agency problems. Review of Economic Studies, 82 (1), pp. 391-422.

Bloom, Nicholas, Sadun, Raffaella, and Van Reenen, John (2015) Do private equity owned firms have better management practices? American Economic Review, 105 (5), pp. 442-446.

Bloom, Nicholas, Propper, Carol, Seiler, Stephan and Van Reenen, John (2015). The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals. Review of Economic Studies 82 (2), pp. 457-489.

Bryan, Gharad, Chowdhury, Shyamal and Mobarak Mushfiq, Ahmed (2014) Underinvestment in a profitable technology: the case of seasonal migration in Bangladesh. Econometrica, 82 (5), pp. 1671-1748.

Ardagna, Silvia and Caselli, Francesco (2014) The political economy of the Greek debt crisis: a tale of two bailouts. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 6 (4), pp. 291-323.

Baccara, Mariagiovanna, Collard-Wexler, Allan, Felli, Leonardo and Yariv, Leeat (2014) Child adoption matching: preferences for gender and race. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (3), pp. 133-158.

Drexler, Alejandro, Fischer, Gregory and Schoar, Antoinette (2014) Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (2), pp. 1-31.

Erik Eyster and Matthew Rabin (2014) Extensive Iimitation is irrational and harmful. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (4), pp. 1861-1898.

Gavazza, Alessandro, Lizzeri, Alessandro and Riketskiy, Nikita (2014) A quantitative analysis of the used-car market. American Economic Review, 104 (11), pp. 3668-3700.

Gentry, Matthew and Tong, Li (2014) Identification in auctions with selective entry. Econometrica, 82 (1), pp. 315-344.

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen, Landais, Camille, Saez, Emmanuel and Schultz, Esben (2014) Migration and wage effects of taxing top earners: evidence from the foreigners' tax scheme in Denmark. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (1), pp. 333-378.

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Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen and Schultz, Esben (2014) Estimating taxable income responses using Danish tax reforms. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6 (4), pp. 271-301.

Levy, Gilat and Razin, Ronny (2014) Rituals or good works: social signalling in religious organizations. Journal of European Economic Association, 12 (5), pp. 1317-1360.

Goos, Maarten, Alan Manning, and Anna Salomons (2014) Explaining job polarization: routine-biased technological change and offshoring. American Economic Review, 104(8), pp. 2509-2526.

Michaillat, Pascal (2014) A theory of countercyclical government multiplier. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 6 (1), pp. 190-217.

Nava, Francesco and Schiraldi, Pasquale (2014) Sales and collusion in a market with storage. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12 (3), pp. 791-832.

Ngai, Liwa Rachel, and Tenreyro, Silvana (2014) Hot and cold seasons in the housing market. American Economic Review, 104 (12), pp. 3991-4026.

Mayer, Thierry, Melitz, Marc and Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (2014) Market size, competition, and the product mix of exporters. American Economic Review, 104 (2), pp. 495-536.

Nocco, Antonella, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, and Matteo Salto (2014) Monopolistic competition and optimum product selection. American Economic Review, 104 (5), pp. 304-309.

Eddie Dekel and Michele Piccione (2014) The strategic dis/advantage of voting early.American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol 6 (4), pp. 162-179.

Sampson, Thomas (2014) Selection into trade and wage inequality. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6 (3), pp. 157-202.

Campbell, Arthur, Ederer, Florian and Spinnewijn, Johannes (2014) Delay and deadlines: freeriding and information revelation in partnerships. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6 (2), pp. 163-204.

Young, Alwyn (2014) Structural transformation, the mismeasurement of productivity growth, and the cost disease of services. American Economic Review, 104 (11), pp. 3635-3667.

Johannesen, Niels and Zucman, Gabriel (2014) The end of bank secrecy? An evaluation of the G20 tax haven crackdown. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6 (1), pp. 65-91.

Piketty, Thomas and Zucman, Gabriel (2014) Capital is back: wealth-income ratios in rich countries 1700-2010. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (3), pp. 1255-1310.

Robson, Arthur J., and Balázs Szentes (2014) A biological theory of social discounting. American Economic Review, 104 (11), pp. 3481-3497.

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen (2014) JEEA-FBBVA Lecture 2013: The new empirical economics of management. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12 (4), pp. 835-876.

Bandiera, Oriana, Barankay, Iwan and Rasul, Imran (2013) Team incentives: evidence from a firm level. Journal of the European Economic Association, 11 (5), pp. 1079-1114.

Besley, Timothy, Ilzetzki, Ethan and Persson, Torsten (2013) Weak states and steady states: the dynamics of fiscal capacity. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5 (4), pp. 205-235.

Caselli, Francesco and Coleman, Wilbur John (2013) On the theory of ethnic conflict. Journal of the European Economic Association, 11 (S1), pp. 161-192.

Caselli, Francesco and Michaels, Guy (2013) Do oil windfalls improve living standards? Evidence from Brazil. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (1), pp. 208-238.

Dhingra, Swati (2013) Trading away wide brands for cheap brands. American Economic Review, 103 (6), pp. 2554-2584.

Eyster, Erik and Piccione, Michele (2013) An approach to asset-pricing under incomplete and diverse perceptions. Econometrica, 81 (4), pp. 1483-1506.

Fischer, Gregory (2013) Contract structure, risk sharing and investment choice. Econometrica, 81 (3), pp. 883-939.

Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther, Ghatak, Maitreesh and Lafortune, Jeanne (2013) Marry for what?: caste and mate selection in modern India. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5 (2), pp. 33-72.

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen and Waseem, M. (2013) Using notches to uncover optimization frictions and structural elasticities: theory and evidence from Pakistan. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (2), pp. 669-723.

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen, Landais, Camille and Saez, Emmanuel (2013) Taxation and international mobility of superstars: evidence from the European football market. American Economic Review, 103 (5), pp. 1892-1924.

Kitamura, Yuichi, Otsu, Taisuke and Evdokimov, Kirill (2013) Robustness, infinitesimal neighborhoods, and moment restrictions. Econometrica, 81 (3), pp. 1185-1201.

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P., Peri, Giovanni and Wright, Gregory (2013) Immigration, offshoring, and American jobs. American Economic Review, 103 (5), pp. 1925-1959.

Borgers, Tilman, Cox, Ingemar, Pesendorfer, Martin and Petricek, Vaclav (2013) Equilibrium bids in sponsored search auctions: theory and evidence. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5 (4), pp. 163-187.

Bloom, Nick, Schankerman, Mark and Van Reenen, John (2013) Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry. Econometrica, 81 (4), pp. 1347-1393.

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Jovanovic, Boyan and Szentes, Balázs (2013) On the market for venture capital. Journal of Political Economy, 121 (3), pp. 493-527.

Peski, Marcin and Szentes, Balázs (2013) Spontaneous discrimination. American Economic Review, 103 (6). pp. 2412-2436.

Aghion, Philippe, Van Reenen, John and Zingales, Luigi (2013) Innovation and institutional ownership. American Economic Review, 103 (1), pp. 277-304.

Young, Alwyn (2013) Inequality, the urban-rural gap, and migration. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (4), pp. 1727-1785.

Zucman, Gabriel (2013) The missing wealth of nations: are Europe and the U.S. net debtors or net creditors? The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (3), pp. 1321-1336.

Besley, Timothy and Mueller, Hannes. ( 2012) Estimating the peace dividend: the impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland. American Economic Review, 102(2), pp. 810-833.

Besley, Timothy, Burchardi, Konrad B. and Ghatak, Maitreesh (2012) Incentives and the De Soto effect. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (1) pp. 237-282.

Burgess, Robin, Hansen, Matthew, Olken, Benjamin and Sieber, Stefanie (2012) The political economy of deforestation in the tropics. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (4). pp. 1707-175.

Jin, Keyu (2012) Industrial structure and capital flows. American Economic Review, 102 (5), pp. 2111-2146.

Levy, Gilat and Razin, Ronny (2012) Religious beliefs, religious participation, and cooperation. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4 (3), pp. 121-151.

Manacorda, Marco, Manning, Alan and Wadsworth, Jonathan (2012) The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10 (1), pp. 120-151.

Michaels, Guy, Rauch, Ferdinand and Redding, Stephen (2012) Urbanization and structural transformation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (2), pp. 535-58.

Michaillat, Pascal (2012) Do matching frictions explain unemployment?: not in bad times. American Economic Review, 102 (4), pp. 1721-175.

Altonji, Joseph G., Ichimura, Hidehiko and Otsu, Taisuke (2012) Estimating derivatives in nonseparable models with limited dependent variables. Econometrica, 80 (4), pp. 1701-1719.

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. and Peri, Giovanni (2012) Rethinking the gains of immigration on wages.  Journal of the European Economic Association, 10 (1), pp. 152-197.

Chassang, Sylvain, Padró i Miquel, Gerard and Snowberg, Erik (2012) Selective trials: a principal-agent approach to randomized control experiments. American Economic Review, 102 (4), pp. 1279-1309.

Hatfield, John and Padró i Miquel, Gerard (2012) A political economy theory of partial decentralization. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10 (3), pp. 605-633.

Yared, Pierre and Padró i Miquel, Gerard (2012) The political economy of indirect control. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (2), pp. 947-1015.

Piccione, Michele and Spiegler, Ran (2012) Price competition under limited comparability. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (1), pp. 97-13.

Peters, Michael and Szentes, Balázs (2012) Definable and contractible contracts. Econometrica, 80 (1), pp. 363-41.

Robson, Arthur J., Szentes, Balázs, and Emil Iantchev (2012) The evolutionary basis of time preference: intergenerational transfers and sex. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4(4), pp. 172-201.

Bloom, Nick, Sadun, Raffaella and Van Reenen, John (2012) The organization of firms across countries. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (4), pp. 1663-1705.

Bloom, Nicholas, Sadun, Raffaella and Van Reenen, John (2012) Americans do IT better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle. American Economic Review, 102 (1), pp. 167-201.

Young, Alwyn (2012) The African growth miracle. Journal of Political Economy, 120 (4), pp. 696-739.

Besley, Timothy and Persson, Torsten (2011) The logic of political violence. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (3), pp. 1411-1445.

Besley, Timothy and Persson, Torsten (2011) Fragile states and development policy. Journal of the European Economic Association, 9 (3), pp. 371-39.

Covas, Francisco and Den Haan, Wouter J. (2011) The cyclical behavior of debt and equity finance. American Economic Review, 101 (2), pp. 877-899.

Dittmar, Jeremiah E. (2011) Information technology and economic change: the impact of the printing press. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (3), pp. 1133-1172.

Fuchs, William and Garicano, Luis (2011) Matching problems with expertise in firms and markets. Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2-3), pp. 354-364.

Fang, Hanming and Gavazza, Alessandro (2011) Dynamic inefficiencies in an employment-based health insurance system: theory and evidence. American Economic Review, 101 (7), pp. 3047-3077.

Gavazza, Alessandro (2011) The role of trading frictions in real asset markets. American Economic Review, 101 (4), pp. 1106-1114.

Gavazza, Alessandro (2011) Leasing and secondary markets: theory and vvidence from commercial aircraft. Journal of Political Economy, 119 (2), pp. 325-337.

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen, Knudsen, Martin B., Kreiner, Claus Thustrup, Pedersen, Søren and Saez, Emmanuel (2011) Unwilling or unable to cheat?: evidence from a tax audit experiment in Denmark. Econometrica, 79 (3), pp. 651-692.

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen and Kopczuk, Wojciech (2011) Transfer program complexity and the take-up of social benefits. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3 (1). pp. 54-90.

Pissarides, Christopher (2011) Equilibrium in the Labor Market with Search Frictions. American Economic Review, 101(4), pp.1092-1105 (Nobel lecture).

Ngai, Liwa Rachel and Pissarides, Christopher A. (2011) Taxes, social subsidies, and the allocation of work time. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 3 (4), pp. 1-26.

Hualde, Javier and Robinson, Peter (2011) Gaussian pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation of fractional time series models. Annals of Statistics, 39 (6), pp. 3152-3181.

Lee, Sokbae, Seo, Myung Hwan and Shi, Youngki (2011) Testing for threshold effects in regression models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106 (493), pp. 220-231.

Guimaraes, Bernardo and Sheedy, Kevin D. (2011) Sales and monetary policy. American Economic Review, 101 (2), pp. 844-876.

Diamond, Peter, and Johannes Spinnewijn (2011) Capital income taxes with heterogeneous discount rates. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3(4), pp. 52-76.

Bandiera, Oriana, Barankay, Iwan, and Rasul, Imran. (2010) Social incentives in the workplace. Review of Economic Studies, 77 (2), pp. 417-458.

Bandiera, Oriana, Goldstein, Markus, Rasul, Imran, Burgess, Robin, Gulesci, Selim and Sulaiman, Munshi (2010) Intentions to participate in adolescent training programs: evidence from Uganda. Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2-3), pp. 548-560.

Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten and Sturm, Daniel (2010) Political Competition and Economic Performance: Evidence from the United States. Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), pp. 1329-1352.

Besley, Timothy and Persson, Torsten (2010) State capacity, conflict, and development. Econometrica, 78 (1), pp. 1-34.

Besley, Timothy and Robinson, James A. (2010) Quis custodiet ipsos custodes: civilian control over the military. Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2-3), pp. 655-663.

Burgess, Robin and Donaldson, Dave (2010) Can openness mitigate the effects of weather shocks? Evidence from India's famine era. American Economic Review, 100 (2), pp. 449-453.

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