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Working Papers

How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? – Evidence from a Large Cross-Section of Countries, Feb 2008

          Data and Statistical Appendix   Earlier version – NBER Working paper 11862

 

A Bargaining Theory of Inefficient Redistribution Policies (with Nuno Limão), forthcoming, International Economic Review.

 

Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence (with Nuno Limão and Thomas Stratmann), Journal of Public Economics 91, April 2007.

       

Is There a Different Political Economy for Developing Countries? Issues, Perspectives, and Methodology, forthcoming, Journal of African Economies, Special Issue.

 

Electoral Manipulation via Voter-Friendly Spending: Theory and Evidence (with Marcela Eslava), July 2006.

 

A Simple Test of the Effect of Interest Rate Defense, (with Stefan Hubrich), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 20, December 2006.

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Pork Barrel Cycles (with Marcela Eslava), April 2006.

 

Political Budget Cycles in New versus Established Democracies (with Adi Brender), Extended version, with all the background material of our October 2005 JME paper. 

"Political Budget Cycles,"September 2006, forthcoming in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

"Political Business Cycles," September 2006, forthcoming in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

Why Emergency Lending Facilities Go Unused (with Leonardo Bartolini), July 2004.

 

What Is Gained By Selectively Withholding Foreign Aid?, April 1999