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
Democratization, State Building
Acemoglu and Robinson, Economic Origin of Dictatorship and Democracy. Ch. 5.6 Cambridge University Press
Acemoglu (*), Political Economy Lecture Notes MIT (slides in class are based on ch 18)
Acemoglu et al. 2015 Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality, Handbook Income Distribution
Bruckner and Ciccone, 2011, Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity, Econometrica
Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson. 2011. Section 2.1 Pillars of Prosperity. Princeton University Press
Acemoglu Robinson, 2017, The emergence of Weak, Dispotic and Inclusive States, wp, MIT, video
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
Alesina, Reich, Riboni (*), 2020, Nationalism, Nation Building and Wars, J. Ec. Growth
Alesina, Tabellini, Trebbi, 2017, Is Europe an Optimal Political Area, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
Shayo, 2009 (*), A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy, APSR
Shayo, 2019 Social Identity and Economic Policy
Bonomi, Gennaioli and Tabellini 2021, Identity, Beliefs and Political Conflict, mimeo slides
Noury and Roland, 2019 Identity Politics and Populism in Europe, Berkely, mimeo
Culture and Institutions
Tabellini Guido (*) 2008 The Scope of Cooperation, Value and Incentives, QJE
Acemoglu et al, 2005, Institutions as fondamental causes of long-run growth, Handbook of Economic Growth
Alesina and Giuliano, 2015, Culture and Institutions, JEL
Alesina and La Ferrara, 2005, Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance, JEL
Aghion, Algan, Cahuc, Shleifer, 2010, Regulation and Distrust, QJE
Bisin and Verdier, 2011, The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization, Handbook of Social Economics
Dell, 2010, The Persistent effect of Peru's Mining mita, Econometrica
Fernandez Fogli, 2009, An empirical investigation of beliefs, work and fertility, AEJ, macro
Dell, Lane, Querubin, 2018, The Historical State, Local Collective Action and Economic Development in Vietman, Econometrica
Lowes, Nunn, Robinson, Weigel, 2017. The evolution of culture and institution: evidence from the Kuba Kingdom, Econometrica
Esteban, Mayoral and Ray, 2012, Ethnicity and Confict, an empirical study, AER,
Vigdor, 2009, Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States, mimeo
Alesina, Miano, Stantcheva, 2019, The Polarization of Reality, mimeo
Alesina, Stantcheva Teso, 2019, Intergenerational Mobility and Preference for Redistribution, AER
Tajfel and Turner, 1986, The social identity theory of intergroup behavior
Carvalho, Bergeron, Henrich, Nunn, Weigel Zero-sum thinking, the evolution of effort-suppressing beliefs, and economic development, NBER wp
Chinoy, S, N Nunn, S Stantcheva, and S Sequeira (2022), “Zero-sum thinking and the roots of US political divides”. NBER wp
Redistribution
Benabou and Tirole, 2005, Beliefs in a Just world and redistributive policy, QJE
Benabou and Ok, 2001 Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution, the PUOM Hypothesis, QJE
Alesina and Angeletos (*), 2005, Fairness and Redistribution, AER
Tabellini The politics of Intergenerational redistribution, JPE, [NBER wp has more details] 1991 (summary of the article in Allan Drazen's textbook)
Iversen Torben and Max Goplerud, 2018, Redistribution Without a Median Voter: Models of Multidimensional Politics Annual Review of Political Science
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