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Institute for Economic Development - Discussion Papers

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The following is a list of discussion papers published by Boston University's Institute for Economic Development. Hard copies of these papers can be procured by contacting the institute at ied@bu.edu.

Number	Date	Author(s)	Title
168	March 2008	Fernanda Brollo	Who Is Punishing Corrupt Politicians – Voters or the Central Government? Evidence from the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Program
167	April 2007	Zvika Neeman, Andrew F. Newman, Claudia Olivetti	Are Working Women Good for Marriage?
166	April 2007	Christophe Chamley	Contingent Government Liabilities against Private Expectations in England, 1743-49
165	April 2007	Sanjay Reddy, Sujata Visaria and Muhammad Asali	Intercountry Comparisons of Poverty based on a Capability-based Approach
164	April 2007	Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni	Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
163	April 2007	Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee	Land Reform and Farm Productivity in West Bengal
162	February 2007	Andrew F. Newman	Risk Bearing and Entrepreneurship
161	December 2006	Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar	Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth: Forest Degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas
160	November 2006	Francois Gourio and Jianjun Miao	Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Divident Tax Reform
159	October 2006	Kevin Lang, Erez Siniver	The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
158	March 2006	Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Eugenio Proto	Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
157	April 2006	Sujata Visaria	Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: The Microeconomic Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India
156	July 19, 2005	Christophe Chamley	Complementarities in Information Acquisition with Short-Term Trades
155	September 2005	Ulf von Lillienfeld-Toal, Dilip Mookherjee	Bankruptcy Law, Bonded Labor and Inequality
154	February 2006	Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein	Path Dependence and Occupations
153	August 2005	Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur (Editor), Dilip Mookherjee	Theory versus Empirics in Development Economics: A Symposium
152	June 2005	Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee	Decentralization, Corruption and Government Accountability: An Overview
151	September 2005	Hans Fehr, Sabine Joskisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff	Will China Eat our Lunch or Take us to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the US, EU, Japan, and China
150	November 2005	Olga M. Fuentes, Simon Gilchrist	Skill-biased Technology Adoption: Evidence for the Chilean manufacturing sector
149	November 2004	Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman	Beauty is a Beast, Frog is a Prince: Assortative Matching with Nontransferabilities
148	May 2004	Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman	Competing for Ownership
147	January 2005	Hanming Fan, Glenn C. Loury	"Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational
146	November 2004	Hanming Fang, Glenn C. Loury	Toward an Economic Theory of Dysfunctional Identity
145	April 2005	Kevin Lang, Michael Manove, William T. Dickens	Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
144	January 2005	Jianjun MIao	A Search Model of Centralized and Decentralized Trade
143	April 2005	Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel	Intergenerational Mobility and Macroeconomic History Dependence
142	November 2004	Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray	Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality
141	December 2004	Robert E. B. Lucas and Sari Pekkala	On the Importance of Finnishing School: Half a Century of Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland
140	May 2004	Randall P. Elllis and Germano M. Mwabu	The Demand for Outpatient Medical Care in Rural Kenya
139	April 2004	Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee	Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency: Comparing Performance of Cooperatives and Private Factories in the Indian Sugar Industry
138	December 2003	Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee	Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal
137	November 2003	Arindam Das-Gupta, Shanto Ghosh, and Dilip Mookherjee	Tax Administration Reform and Taxpayer Compliance in India
136	January 2004	Jianjun Miao and Neng Wong	Risk, Uncertainty, and Option Exercise
135	December 2003	Robert M. Costrell and Glenn C. Loury	Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model
134	December 2003	Jianjun Miao	Consumption and Saving Under Knightian Uncertainty
133	October 2003	Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokischk and Larry Kotlikoff	The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Rules of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy
132	October 2003	Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Glenn C. Loury	Affirmative Action in Winner-Take-All Markets replaces: Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets
131	October 2003	Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Glenn C. Loury, and Tolga Yuret	Color-Blind Affirmative Action
130	March 2003	Robert E. B. Lucas, Sari A. Pekkala	Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland figures 1 2 3 4 5 6
129	March 2003	Peter Doeringer, David Terkla	Foreign Direct Investment, Management Practices, and Social Capital: New Evidence on the Host Country Effects of Japanese Multinationals
128	February 2003	David McKenzie and Dilip Mookherjee	The Disbributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: Evidence from Four Countries
127	January 2003	Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas	Trade Structure, Industrial Structure, and International Business Cycles
126	January 2003	Pranab Bardhan, Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee, Rinki Sarkar	The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal
125	January 2003	Peter Doeringer, Christine Evans-Klock, David Terkla	What Attracts High Performance Factories? Management Culture and Regional Advantage
124	January 2003	Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein	From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
123	October 2001	Taiji Furusawa	Threats and Concessions in Tariff Settings
122	April 2002	Pierre-Philippe Combes and Miren Lafourcade	Transport Costs, Geography and Regional Inequalities
121	February 2002	Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray	Is Equality Stable?
120	November 2001	Robert E. B. Lucas	Diaspora and Development: Highly Skilled Migrants from East Asia
119	March 2002	Christophe Chamley	Dynamic Speculative Attacks
118	December 2001	Glenn C. Loury	Racial Justice; The Superficial Morality of Colour-Blindness in the United States - Note
117	December 2001	Dilip Mookherjee	Combating the Crisis in Government Accountability: A Review of Recent International Experience
116	December 2001	Andrew Weiss and Georgiy Nikitin	Effects of Ownership Composition on Performance: Evidence form Czech Republic
115	May 2001	Julie Anderson Schaffner	Turnover and Job Training in Developing and Developed Countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States - tables
114	May 2001	Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo	Women's Leadership and Policy Decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India
113	January 2001	Simon Gilchrist and John C. Williams	Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models: Explaining the Postwar Catch-up of Germany and Japan
112	December 2000	Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas	What Can Acount for Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
111	November 2000	Robert E. B. Lucas	The Effects of Proximity and Transportation on Developing Country Population Migrations
110	January 2001	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	Technology, Trade and Growth: A Unified Framework
109	December 2000	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	Trade in Capital Goods
108	September 2000	Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray	Persistent Inequality
107	June 2000	Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray	Contractual Structure and Wealth Accumulation
106	May 2000	Glenn C. Loury	Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics
105	April 2000	Andrew B. Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jensen, Samuel Kortum	Plants and Productivity in International Trade
104	March 2000	Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee	Corruption and Decentralization of Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries
103	March 2000	Peter R. Fallon and Robert E. B. Lucas	The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes and Poverty: A Review of Evidence
102	November 1999	Julie Anderson Schaffner	Job Stability in Developing and Developed countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States
101	June 1999	Julie Anderson Schaffner	Heteroscedastic Sample Selection and Developing country Wage Equations
100	January 26, 2000	Zvika Neeman and Gerhard O. Orosel	Credits, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Microeconomic Analysis
99	January 19, 2000	Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf	Designing Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union
98	December 1999	Dilip Mookherjee	Contractual Constraints on Firm Performance in Developing Countries
97	November 30, 1999	Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee	Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments: An Essay in the Political Economy of Decentralization
96	September 1999	Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver	Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
95	June 1999	Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow	Why Dowries?
94	April 1999	R. Cooper and D. Corbae	Financial Fragility in a Monetary Economy: Positive Implications and Policy Prescriptions - Abstract
93	April 1999	Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray	Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets- Abstract
92	January 1999	Daniel A. Ackerberg and Maristella Botticini	Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form
91	November 1998	Robert E. B. Lucas	Internal Migration and Urbanization: Recent Contributions and New Evidence - Summary of Points
90	November 1998	Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee	Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries
89	September 1998	Eli Berman and Zaur Rzakhanov	Fertility, Migration, Altruism and Growth - Abstract
88	August 1998	Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf	Establishing a Monetary Union - Abstract
87	August 1998	Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum	European Technology Policy - Abstract
86	May 1998	Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion	Geographic Poverty Traps? - Abstract
85	May 1998	Andrew Weiss and Georgiy Nikitin	Performance of Czech Companies by Ownership Structure - Abstract
84	March 1998	Jerome Adda and Jonathan Eaton	Borrowing iwth Unobserved Liquidity Constraints: Structural Estimation with an Application to Sovereign Debt - Abstract
83	February 1998	Julian F. Hofmeyr and Robert E. B. Lucas	The Rise in Union Wage Premia in South Africa - Abstract
82	June 1996	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Trade and Diffusion as Conduits of Growth - Abstract
81	January 1998	Jonathan Eaton, Robert Evenson, Samuel Kortum, Poorti Marino and Jonathan Putnam	Technological Specialization in International Patenting - Abstract
80	October 1997	Abhijit Banerjee, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Debraj Ray	Inequality, control Rights and Rent Seeking - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra - Abstract
79	September 1997	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	Technology and Bilateral Trade - Abstract
78	July 1997	Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin	Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence- Abstract
77	January 1997	Dilip Mookherjee	Wealth Effects, Incentives and Productivity - Abstract
76	November 1996	Tarun Kabiraj and Chun-Lei Yang	Licensing vs. Innovaiton Incentives under Uncertainties in Government Policies - Abstract
75	November 1996	Ramprasad Sengupta	Economic Development and CO2 Emission: Economy-Environment Relation and Policy Approach to Choice of Emission Standard for Climate Control - Abstract
74	July 1996	Sanjay Banerji and Manas Ranjan Gupta	The Efficiency Wage Under Long-run Employment - Abstract
73	March 1996	Debraj Ray and Kaoru Ueda	Egalitarianism and Incentives - Abstract
72	February 1996	Ghazala Mansuri	Tenency, Credit Markets, Segmentation, and Hierarchical Loan Contracts - Abstract
71	October 1995	Yoshikazu Yuasa	Synchronization of Japanese Money Markets - Abstract
70	December 1995	Jonathan Eaton and Akiko Tamura	Japanese and U.S. Exports and Investment as Conduits of Growth - Abstract
69	December 1995	Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee	Tax Amnesties as Asset Laundering Devices - Abstract
68	December 1995	Binod Khadria	Economic Strategies for Banishing Child-Labour: Compulsory Primary Education, Specific vs. General Egalitarianism, and Innovation in Financial Instruments for Mobilization of Participation - Abstract
67	December 1995	Laurence J. Kotlikoff	Applying Generational Accounting to Developing Countries - Abstract
66	October 1995	Laurence J. Kotlikoff	Privatization of Social Security: How it Works and Why it Matters - Abstract
65	October 1995	Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi and Laurence J. Kotlikoff	Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence - Abstract
64	October 1995	Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray	Cooperation in Community Interaction Without Information Flows - Abstract
63	June 1995	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation - Abstract
62	July 1995	Hiranya Mukhopadhyay	Private Investment and External Debt: The Debt Overhang Hypothesis Revisited - Abstract
61	May 1995	Jerome Adda and Jesus Gonzalo	P-Values for Non-Standard Distributions with an Application to the DF Test - Abstract
60	June 1995	Tarun Kabiraj	To Protect Or Not To Protect Foreign-Owned Patents -- A Strategic Decision - Abstract
59	May 1995	Jonathan Eaton and Raquel Fernandez	Sovereign Debt - Abstract
58	May 1995	Parikshit Ghosh	On The Coexistence of Share, Rent and Wage Contracts in a Rural Economy - Abstract
57	April 1995	Arindam Das-Gupta, Radhika Lahiri and Dilip Mookherjee	Income Tax Compliance in India: An Empirical Analysis - Abstract
56	April 1995	Hiranya Mukhopadhyay	Structural Adjustment Programs: Some New Findings - Abstract
55	April 1995	Dilip Mookherjee	Informational Rents and Property Rights in Land - Abstract
54	April 1995	Kenneth Rogoff	What Remains of Purchasing Power Parity? - Introduction
53	April 1995	Arindam Das Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee	Tax Amnesties in India; An Empirical Evaluation - Abstract
52	April 1995	Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee	Reforming Indian Income Tax Enforcement - Abstract
51	February 1995	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	Patenting and Productivity in the OECD - Abstract
50	November 1994	Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum	International Patenting and Technology Diffusion - Abstract
49	August 1994	Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers	Threats and Promises - Abstract
48	July 1994	Jonathan Eaton and Akilo Tamura	Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns - Abstract
47	July 1994	Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton	Agglomertion and the Price of Land: Evidence from the Prefectures - Abstract
46	July 1994	Robert E. B. Lucas	International Environmental Indicators: Trade, Income and Endowments - Abstract
45	May 1994	J. Mahender Reddy	United States Investment in India - Abstract
44	April 1994	Anindita Mukherjee	Diversification of Contracts in Rural Labor Markets - Abstract
43	November 1994	Robert E. B. Lucas	References for "Internal Migration in Developing Countries" - Abstract
43	April 1994	Robert E. B. Lucas	Internal Migration in Developing Countries - Abstract
42	April 1994	Jonathan Eaton	Cross-Border Banking - Abstract
41	April 1994	Robert E. B. Lucas	The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Training Needs - Abstract
40	April 1994	Robert E. B. Lucas and Donald W. Verry	Structural Adjustment and Income Distribution in Malaysia - Abstract
39	February 1994	Neelam Singh	Inter-Firm Variations of Export and Import Intensities in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry- Abstract
38	February 1994	Randall P. Elllis, D. Keith McInnes, Elizabeth H. Stephenson	Inpatient and outpatient Health Care Demand in Cairo, Egypt - Abstract
37	February 1994	Samuel Kortum	A Model of Research, Patenting, and Productivity Growth - Abstract
36	February 1994	Jonathan Eaton and Zvi Eckstein	Cities and Growth: Theory and Evidence from france and Japan - Abstract
35	November 1993	Maria Sagrario Floro and Debraj Ray	Direct and Indirect Linkages Between Formal and Informal Financial Institutions: An Analytical Approach - Abstract
34	April 1994 (Revised0	Anindita Mukherjee	The Labour Markets in Indian Villages - Abstract
33	November 1993	Shane Hunt	Peru: the Current Economic Situation in Long Term Perspective - Abstract
32	November 1993	K. Shanthi	Female Mobility and Gender Dimensions in Labour Migration - Abstract
31	March 1993	Reuven Glick and Kenneth Rogoff	Global Versus Country-Specific Productivity Shocks and the Current Acocount - Abstract
30	December 1992	Christophe Chamley	The Welfare Cost of Taxation and Endogenous Growth - Abstract
29	December 1992	Anindita Mukherjee and Debraj Ray	Labor Tying - Abstract
28	October 1992	Amartya Sen	Markets and Governments - Abstract
27	October 1992	Pranab Bardhan	The Implications of New Growth Theory for Trade and Development: An Overview - Abstract
26	July 1992	Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury	On the Allocative Performance of Rotative Savings and Credit Associations - Abstract
25	February 1992	Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson	The Political Economy of Educational Subsidies - Abstract
24	February 1992	Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury	The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations - Abstract
23	January 1992	Debraj Ray	Labor Markets, Adaptive Mechanisms and Nutritional Status - Abstract
22	January 1992	Jonathan Eaton and Yoshiyasu Ono	Tariff Wars, Retaliation and Managed Trade - Abstract
21	August 1991	Jonathan Eaton	Sovereign Debt: A Primer - Abstract
20	December 1991	Zvi Eckstein and Itzhak Zilcha	The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Growth, Income Distribution and Welfare - Abstract
19	August 1991	Gustav F. Papanek	Market of Government: Lessons from a Comparative Analysis of the Experience in Pakistan and India - Abstract
18	August 1991	Joan-Maria Esteban and Debraj Ray	On the Measurement of Polarization - Abstract
17	May 1991	Christophe Chamley	Externalities and Dynamics in Models of "Learning or Doing" - Abstract
16	May 1991	Rahul Khullar	Economic Reformes in India 1985-1990: The Case of the Elephant and the Seven Blind Men- Abstract
15	April 1991	Randall P. Ellis and Germano M. Mwabu	The Demand for Outpatient Medical Care in Rural Kenya - Abstract
14	April 1993	Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers	Sanctions - Abstract
13	December 1990	Robert Dekle	Alternative Estimates of Japanese Saving and Comparisons with the U.S.: Can the Capital Gains to Land be Included in "Saving"? - Abstract
12	May 1990	Carlos Bazdresch and Santiago Levy	Populism and Economic Policy in Mexico, 1970-1982 - Abstract
11	February 1990	Jonathan Harris	Global Institutions and Ecological Crisis - Abstract
10	February 1990	Kenneth Chomitz	Technological Determinants of Non-Market Clearing Wages: Results from an Indonesian Survey - Abstract
9	February 1990	Kenneth Chomitz	Industrial Relations and Reliability in LDC Manufacturing - Abstract
8	February 1990	Raquel Fernandez and Dani Rodrik	Why is Trade Reform so Unpopular? On Status Quo Bias in Policy Reforms - Abstract
7	January 1990	Santiago Levy and Roberto Rosales	Multiple Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Rationing: theory and an Application to El Salvador - Abstract
6	December 1989	Paul P. Streeten	Poverty - Abstract
5	December 1989	Paul P. Streeten	Global Prospects in an Interdependent World - Abstract
4	December 1989	Paul P. Streeten	Hunger - Abstract
3	November 1989	Sarthi Acharya and Gustav F. Papanek	Agricultural Wages and Poverty in India: A Model of Rural Labor Markets - Abstract
2	November 1989	Peter R. Fallon and Robert E. B. Lucas	Job Security Regulations and the Dynamic Demand for Industrial Labor in India and Zimbabwe - Abstract
1	November 1989	Santiago Levy and Sean Nolan	Trade and Foreign Investment Policies Under Imperfect Competition: Lessons for Developing Countries - Abstract

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