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The Institute for Economic Development

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Research Review
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Contents Spring 2004

Recent Discussion Papers

• "Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency: Comparing Performance of Cooperatives and Private Factories in the Indian Sugar Industry"
Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee

• "Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal"
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

• "Tax Administration Reform and Taxpayer Compliance in India"
Arindam Das-Gupta, Shanto Ghosh, and Dilip Mookherjee

• "Risk, Uncertainty, and Option Exercise"
Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang

• "Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model"
Robert M. Costrell and Glenn C. Loury

• "Consumption and Saving under Knightian Uncertainty"
Jianjun Miao

• "The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Rules of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy"
Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Larry Kotlikoff

• "Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets"
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Glenn C. Loury

•"Color-Blind Affirmative Action"
Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Glenn C. Loury and Tolga Yuret

Policy Papers

IED Research in Progress

Rosenstein-Rodan Prize

The Institute for Economic Development (IED) is a research center within Boston University's Department of Economics focusing on the economic problems of developing countries.