Research
- The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis (with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi) (September 2008)
- Measuring Central Bank Communication: An Automated Approach with Application to FOMC Statements (with David Lucca) (April 2008)
- Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy? (with Matilde Bombardini) (September 2008)
- Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress (with Matilde Bombardini) (July 2008)
- Risk Aversion and Expected Utility Theory: An Experiment with Large and Small Stakes (with Matilde Bombardini) (November 2007)
- Democracy, Technology, and Growth (with Philippe Aghion and Alberto Alesina), in Elhanan Helpman (ed.) Institutions and Economic Performance, Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Electoral Rules and Minority Representation in US Cities (with Philippe Aghion and Alberto Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008, 123(1): pp.325-357.
- Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms
(with Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna), IMF Staff Papers, [2005 Mundell-Fleming Lecture] September 2006, Special Issue, 53: pp.1-29.
- Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development (with Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian), Journal of Economic Growth, June 2004, 9(2): pp.131-165.
- Endogenous Political Institutions (with Philippe Aghion and Alberto Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2004, 119(2): pp.565-613.
- Electoral Rules and Corruption (with Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini), Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2003, 1(4): pp.958-989.
- Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression? (with James Stock), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2003, 17(3): pp.177-194.