My CV:
My Papers:
- Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
with Guy Michaels
(November 2009)
- Review of Brian Caplan's book on voting
(December 2007)
- Power Struggles and the Natural-Resource Curse
(May 2006)
- On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
with John Coleman
(March 2006)
- Dynastic Management
with Nicola Gennaioli
(December 2005)
- 10 Years of EMU - My Take
The Euro at Ten: 5th European Central Banking Conference, forthcoming
- Leader Behavior and the Natural-Resource Curse
with Tom Cunningham
Oxford Economic Papers, October 2009
- Growth Accounting and Level Accounting
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,2008
- Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
with Nicola Gennaioli
Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2008
- The Marginal Product of Capital
with James Feyrer
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007
data
- The World Technology Frontier
with John Coleman
American Economic Review, June 2006
data
- Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005
data
- Credit Constraints, Competition, and Meritocracy
with Nicola Gennaioli
Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2005
- Is Poland the Next Spain?
with Silvana Tenreyro
NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2004
data
- Bad Politicians
with Massimo Morelli
Journal of Public Economics, March 2004
- Importing Technology
with Dan Wilson
Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2004
data
- The U.S. Technology Frontier
with John Coleman
American Economic Review P&P, May 2002
- The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: A Reinterpretation
with John Coleman
Journal of Political Economy , June 2001
data | appendix
- Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers (long version)
with John Coleman
American Economic Review P&P, May 2001
data
- A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution
with Jaume Ventura
American Economic Review, September 2000
- Technological Revolutions
American Economic Review, March 1999
appendix
- On the Distribution of Debt and Taxes
Journal of Public Economics, September 1997
- Rural Labor and Credit Markets
Journal of Development Economics, December 1997
- Reopening the Convergence Debate: A New Look at Cross-Country Growth Empirics
with Gerardo Esquivel and Fernando Lefort
Journal of Economic Growth, September 1996