MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action 

      Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-10-05)
      Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical ...

    • State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Garcia-Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014-01-08)
      We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity using the network of Colombian municipalities. We model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, ...

    • Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; Robinson, James A. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-10-30)
      In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this ...