Corruption and Crime
Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling-Device (with Federico
Weinschelbaum).
The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
Reputation when Threats and Transfers are available (with Ernesto Dal Bo and Pedro Dal Bo)
Journal of Economics, Management and Strategy, forthcoming.
“Plata o Plomo”: Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence (joint with E. Dal Bo and P. Dal Bo)
American Political Science Review, 2006, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 41-53.
Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? (joint with Ray Fisman)
Journal of Law and Economics, 2004, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 477-514.
Inflation, Inflation Variability and Corruption (joint with Miguel Braun)
Economics and Politics, 2004, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 77-100.
Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack (with Ernesto
Schargrodsky)
The American Economic Review, 2004, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 115-33.
Capture by Threat (with Ernesto Dal Bo')
Journal of Political Economy, 2003, vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 1123-54.
The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires, (with Schargrodsky)
Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 269-92.
Rents, Competition and Corruption (with Alberto Ades)
The American Economic Review, 1999, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 982-94.
Reprinted in The Economics of Corruption, Ajit Mishra (editor), Readers in Economics Series, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Does Competition Kill Corruption? (with Christopher Bliss)
Journal of Political Economy, 1997, vol. 105, no. 5, pp. 1001-23.
National Champions and Corruption: Some Unpleasant Interventionist Arithmetic (with Ades)
The Economic Journal, 1997, vol. 107, no. 443, pp. 1023-42.
The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and Some New Results (with Ades)
Political Studies, 1997, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 496-515.
Reprinted in Political Corruption, Paul Heywood (editor), Blackwell Publishers 1997.
Reprinted in Combating Corruption in Latin America, Joseph Tulchin and Ralph Espach (editors), Washington , D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000.
Reprinted (abridged version), in Liberalization and the New Corruption, Barbara Harris
and Gordon White (editors), IDS Bulletin, 27, 2, 1996, pp. 6-12.
Happiness and Beliefs
Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox? (with MacCulloch).
Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
Media Bias as Product Differentiation (with Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic)
Journal of Economics, Management and Strategy, forthcoming
The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters (with Schargrodsky
and Sebastian Galiani).
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, vol. 122, no. 1 (February), pp. 209-41.
Europe vs America : Institutional Hysteresis in a simple Normative Model (with MacCulloch).
Journal of Public Economics, 2006, vol. 90, no. 12, pp. 2161–86. Lead article.
Some uses of Happiness Data in Economics (with Robert MacCulloch)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, vol. 20, no. 1 (winter), pp. 25-46.
Partisan Social Happiness (with Robert MacCulloch)
The Review of Economic Studies, 2005, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 367-93.
Happiness and Inequality: Are Europeans and Americans Different? (with Alberto Alesina and MacCulloch).
Journal of Public Economics, 2004, vol. 88 (9-10), pp. 2009-42.
The Macroeconomics of Happiness (with MacCulloch and Andrew Oswald)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 793-809.
Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness (with MacCulloch and Oswald)
The American Economic Review, 2001, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 335-41.
Welfare State
The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence based on Survey Data (with MacCulloch)
The European Economic Review, 2005, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1225-59.
Reprinted (abridged version) in Australian Stock Exchange Quarterly, 3rd Quarter 1999.
Unemployment Benefits as a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker (with MacCulloch).
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 911-22.
The Determination of Unemployment Benefits (with MacCulloch)
Journal of Labor Economics, 2002, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 404-34.
Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State (with MacCulloch)
The Economic Journal, 2002, vol. 112, no. 481, pp. 481-503.
Working Papers (submitted)
Why Doesn’t Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries? (with MacCulloch).
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status (with MacCulloch).
Crime and Punishment in the “American Dream” (joint with Juan Dubra).
Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave (with Galiani and Schargrodsky).
Perceived Media Bias: Evidence on the Role of Prior Beliefs, Identity and Source Awareness (with Anand).
Crime and Beliefs, (joint with Javier Donna and MacCulloch).
Book Chapters and Other Publications (Selected)
1. Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela (joint with Donna and
MacCulloch),
Chapter 10 in Economic Development in Venezuela, Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodriguez (editors), 2006.
2. Corruption and the Demand for Regulating Capitalists
Chapter 12 in International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Susan Rose-Ackerman (editor), Elgar Publishing, 2006.
3. Political and Economic Incentives during an Anti-Corruption Crackdown, (with Schargrodsky).
Chapter 7 in Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and Political Economy of Corruption, Donatella della Porta and Susan Rose-Ackerman (editors), Baden-Baden , 2002.
4. Shining Light in Dark Corners, (with Savedoff)
Chapter 1 in Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America’s Public Hospitals, Rafael Di Tella and William Savedoff (editors), IADB Press, 2001.
