RESEARCH
November 5, 2008
Research Papers:
[1] Policy Makers’ Preferences, Party Ideology and the Political Business Cycle (with S. Krause). Southern Economic Journal, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 752-767, April 2005.
[2] Aids Crisis and Growth (with G. Glomm and P. Corrigan). Journal of Development Economics, vol. l77, no. 1, pp. 107-124, June 2005.
[3] Corruption, Growth and Political Regimes: Cross Country Evidence (with Facundo Sepúlveda). European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 82-98, February 2006.
[4] The Value of Legal Housing Titles: An Empirical Study. Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 143-155, June 2006.
[5] Trade Structure and Growth (with Raja Kali and Javier Reyes). Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 245-269, June 2007.
[6] Institutions, Arrangements and Preferences for Inflation Stability: Evidence and Lessons from a Panel Data Analysis (with Stefan Krause). Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30, issue 1, pp. 282-307, March 2008.
[7] A Theoretical Model of Corruption and Income Inequality. Forthcoming in “Economic Corruption: Detection Costs and Prevention”; edited collection, Nova Science Publishers.
[8] Privatization, Deregulation and Capital Accumulation (with Gerhard Glomm). Southern Economic Journal, (accepted for publication on March 26, 2008).
[9] Corruption and Elections: An Empirical Study for a Cross-Section of Countries (with Stefan Krause). Economics and Politics (accepted for publication on July 20, 2008).
The ERI data set constructed in this paper is available for download (ERI data set.xls) and (ERI Readme.docx)
[10] Combating Corruption with Bargaining Disruption. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (accepted for publication on November 4, 2008).
Working Papers:
Hierarchical Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence (With A. Horowitz and Robert Driskill).
The permit and the ticket: a two-stage model of corruption and government regulations (With Facundo Sepulveda)
Can corruption help reduce illegal economic activities? A simple model with unusual results. (download amobc.pdf)
Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption (with Facundo Sepulveda
Does Opportunism go Unnoticed? A Study of Vote Functions and Policy Preferences. (With Stefan Krause)
Intermediate Industry Monopolies: Long-Run Implications of Private and Public Ownership (with Gerhard Glomm) (download pvspm.pdf)
An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications (with A. Horowitz and J. Foster). NEW!