Political Economy 2023

Political Economy, MIE, M2

by M Nunez (1st part, 12 hrs) and A. Riboni (2nd part, 12 hrs)

Slides for the second part: slides 1 slides 2

Homework due jan 12th

Democratization, State Building

1. Acemoglu and Robinson, Economic Origin of Dictatorship and Democracy. Ch. 5.6 Cambridge University Press

2. Acemoglu (*), Political Economy Lecture Notes  MIT (slides in class are based on ch 18)

3. Acemoglu et al. 2015 Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality, Handbook Income Distribution

4. Bruckner and Ciccone, 2011, Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity, Econometrica

5. Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson. 2011. Section 2.1 Pillars of Prosperity. Princeton University Press

6. Acemoglu Robinson, 2017, The emergence of Weak, Dispotic and Inclusive States, wp, MIT, video

7. Sanchez de la Sierra, 2019, On the origin of the states: stationary bandits and taxation in Eastern Congo, Journal of Political Economy

Identity Politics, Nationalism

1. Alesina, Reich, Riboni (*), 2020, Nationalism, Nation Building and Wars, J. Ec. Growth

2. Alesina, Tabellini, Trebbi, 2017, Is Europe an Optimal Political Area, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

3. Shayo, 2009 (*), A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy, APSR

4. Shayo, 2019 Social Identity and Economic Policy

5. Bonomi, Gennaioli and Tabellini 2021, Identity, Beliefs and Political Conflict, mimeo slides

6. Noury and Roland, 2019 Identity Politics and Populism in Europe, Berkely, mimeo

Culture and Institutions

1. Tabellini Guido (*) 2008 The Scope of Cooperation, Value and Incentives, QJE

2. Acemoglu et al, 2005, Institutions as fondamental causes of long-run growth, Handbook of Economic Growth

3. Alesina and Giuliano, 2015, Culture and Institutions, JEL

4. Alesina and La Ferrara, 2005, Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance, JEL

5. Aghion, Algan, Cahuc, Shleifer, 2010, Regulation and Distrust, QJE

6. Bisin and Verdier, 2011, The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization, Handbook of Social Economics

7. Dell, 2010, The Persistent effect of Peru's Mining mita, Econometrica

8. Fernandez Fogli, 2009, An empirical investigation of beliefs, work and fertility, AEJ, macro

9. Dell, Lane, Querubin, 2018, The Historical State, Local Collective Action and Economic Development in Vietman, Econometrica

10. Lowes, Nunn, Robinson, Weigel, 2017. The evolution of culture and institution: evidence from the Kuba Kingdom, Econometrica

11. Esteban, Mayoral and Ray, 2012, Ethnicity and Confict, an empirical study, AER, 

12. Vigdor, 2009, Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States, mimeo

13. Alesina, Miano, Stantcheva, 2019, The Polarization of Reality, mimeo

14. Alesina, Stantcheva Teso, 2019, Intergenerational Mobility and Preference for Redistribution, AER

15. Tajfel and Turner, 1986, The social identity theory of intergroup behavior

16. Carvalho, Bergeron, Henrich, Nunn,  Weigel Zero-sum thinking, the evolution of effort-suppressing beliefs, and economic development, NBER wp

17. Chinoy, S, N Nunn, S Stantcheva, and S Sequeira (2022), “Zero-sum thinking and the roots of US political divides”. NBER wp

Redistribution

18. Benabou and Tirole, 2005, Beliefs in a Just world and redistributive policy, QJE

19. Benabou and Ok, 2001 Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution, the PUOM Hypothesis, QJE

20. Alesina and Angeletos (*), 2005, Fairness and Redistribution, AER

21. Tabellini  The politics of Intergenerational redistribution, JPE,  [NBER wp has more details] 1991 (summary of the article in Allan Drazen's textbook)

22. Iversen Torben and Max Goplerud, 2018, Redistribution Without a Median Voter: Models of Multidimensional Politics Annual Review of Political Science

23. Roemer J. 1998. Why the poor do not expropriate the rich: an old argument in new garb. J. Public Econ. 70(3): 399–424

Legislative Bargaining

20. Austen-Smith David and Jeffey S. Banks, 2005, Positive Political Theory II Strategy and Structure

21 Baron and Ferejohn, 1989, Bargaining in Legislatures, APSR