My CV:

• Updated July 2012

CREI Lectures 2010:

Technology Differences over Time and Space (slides only: book in progress)
• Lecture 1: Development Accounting
• Lecture 2: Factor Bias
• Lecture 3: Explaining capital stock differences

My Papers:

• The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
  with Dominic Rohner and Massimo Morelli
  (April 2013)
   
• The Political-Economy of the Greek Debt Crisis: A Tale of Two Bailouts
  with Silvia Ardagna
  (February 2012)
  R&R at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
   
• Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
  with Andrea Tesei
  (October 2011)
  R&R at Economic Journal
   
• Diversification through Trade
  with Miklos Koren, Milan Lisicky, and Silvana Tenreyro
  (May 2010)
   
• Power Struggles and the Natural-Resource Curse
  (July 2006)
   
• The Incumbency Effects of Signalling
  with Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli, and Ines Moreno-de-Barreda
  Economica, forthcoming
   
• The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound
  with Antonio Ciccone
  Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming
   
• On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
  with John Coleman
  Journal of the European Economic Association, January 2013
  appendix
   
• Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
  with Guy Michaels
  appendix not for publication
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2013
   
• Dynastic Management
  with Nicola Gennaioli
  Economic Inquiry, May 2012
   
• Review of Brian Caplan's book on voting
  Economica, October 2010
   
• 10 Years of EMU - My Take
  The Euro at Ten - Lessons and Challenges, 2009
   
• 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