Institutions and Economic Performance

Edited by Elhanan Helpman

    • Preface
    • Introduction

      Part One: History

    1. The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation Avner Greif
    2. The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution Joel Mokyr
    3. Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth
    4. Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis Nathan Nunn
    5. Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia Daron Acemoglu, Maria Angelica Bautista, Pablo Querubin and James Robinson

      6. Part Two: Theory

    6. The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism Abhinay Muthoo and Kenneth A. Shepsle
    7. Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War James D. Fearon
    8. Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman
    9. Policy Persistence in Multi-Party Parliamentary Democracies Daniel Diermeier and Pohan Fong

      10. Part Three: Contemporary Evidence

    10. Formalizing Informal Institutions: Theory and Evidence From a Kenyan Slum Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois
    11. Making Autocracy Work Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu
    12. Democracy, Technology and Growth Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi
    13. The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is it Heterogeneous and How Can it Be Estimated? Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
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Elhanan Helpman is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advance Research.