| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Seminar |
| 34 | 21-Aug | Introduction, What are institutions; Institutions and economic performance | North 1994, AR 1-3 Hall and Jones 1999, Knack and Keefer 1995 North and Thomas 1973, Allen 2011 (video), Nunn 2013, Acemoglu et al. 2005 |
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| 35 | 28-Aug | No lecture | ||
| 36 | 4-Sep | Institutions and economic performance | Acemoglu et al. 2001 Albouy 2012, Feyrer and Sacerdote 2009 |
Seminar 1: Review of some econometric concepts |
| 37 | 11-Sep | Understanding institutions: Property rights | Acemoglu and Johnson 2005,North and Weingast 1989, AR 7 Demsetz (1967), Fisman (2001) |
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| 38 | 18-Sep | Understanding institutions: Democracy and commitment | Acemoglu and Robinson 2001 | Seminar 2: Understanding institutions |
| 39 | 25-Sep | Understanding institutions: Culture | Tabellini 2008, Nunn and Wantchekon 2011 Nunn 2008 |
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| 40 | 2-Oct | Trust and trade | Greif 1993 Greif 2005 |
Seminar 3: Democratization and culture |
| 41 | 9-Oct | Contracting institutions and legal origins | Acemoglu and Johnson 2005 La Porta et al. 2008 |
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| 42 | 16-Oct | Bad institutions | Engerman and Sokoloff 1997, Shleifer and Vishny, AR 5, 6, 8 | Seminar 4: Trust and culture |
| 43 | 23-Oct | Political agency | Besley et al. 2010 | |
| 44 | 30-Oct | Social democracy and institutional complementarity | Barth and Moene 2013, Acemoglu et al. 2012 Maliranta et al. 2012 |
Seminar 5: Bad institutions |
| 45 | 6-Nov | Organization of the the economy and the firm | Coase 1937, Moene 2004, Temkin 1996 Economist 2013 |
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| 46 | 13-Nov | Organization of the firm: Cooperatives | Craig and Pencavel 1992, Moene and Wallerstein 1993 Ward 1958 |
Seminar 6: Organization of the firm |
| 47 | 20-Nov | Organization of the firm: Unions and cooperatives | Craig and Pencavel 1992, Moene and Wallerstein 1993 |
AR refers to chapters in Acemoglu and Robinson (2012)
Links to articles can be found on the syllabus page. Readings in italics are optional papers mentioned in class