Reading list
1) Introduction
D. Acemoglu & J. Robinson: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. (Exact pages to be announced before teaching starts).
2) Institutions and Economic Performance
Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson and J.A. Robinson: "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: an Empirical Investigation" in American Economic Review, , 2001. Vol. 91, No. 5. pp. 1369-1401.
3) Persistent Institutions
Dell, Melissa. “The persistent effects of Peru’s mining mita”. Econometrica 201078 (6), 1863–1903. DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8121
Michalopoulos S. and E. Papaioannou (2013). Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development, Econometrica, 81(1): 113–152. DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9613
4) Institutions and Commitment
Acemoglu, D. and J.A. Robinson: "Why did the West extend the franchise? Democracy, inequality and growth in historical perspective" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 115. pp. 1167-1199.
Aidt, Toke S. and Raphaël Franck: “Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832”. Econometrica 83: 505–547, 2015.
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA11484
North, D.C. and B.R. Weingast: "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth Century England" Journal of Economic History, 1989. 48 (4). pp. 803-832.
Avner Greif: “Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition.” American Economic Review 83 (3), 1993: 525-48.
Guido Tabellini: “Institutions and culture” Journal of the European Economic Association 6(2-3), 2008,: 255-94.
Nunn, Nathan, and Leonard Wantchekon. “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa.” American Economic Review, 101(7), 2011: 3221-52.
5) Legal Origins
Acemoglu, D. and S. Johnson: "Unbundling Institutions" Journal of Political Economy, 113 (5), 2005, pp. 949-995.
6) State Capacity
Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul (2013). ”On the Origins of the State: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo“, mimeo
Besley, Timothy and Torsten Persson (2009). ” The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation and Politics“, American Economic Review, 99(4), 1218-44
7) Bad Institutions
Engerman, S.L and K.L. Sokoloff: "Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Growth among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States" in S.H. Haber (ed.): How Latin America Fell Behind, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA. pp. 260-304. Ugly version. Fulltext.
Fisman, Raymond: Estimating the Value of Political Connections, 2001. American Economic Review 91 (4). pp. 1095-1102.
Hodler, R., & Raschky, P. A. (2014). Regional favoritism Quarterly Journal of Economics (2014) 129 (2): 995-1033. doi: 10.1093/qje/qju004
8) Corruption
Shleifer, A. and R.W. Vishny: "Corruption" in Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (3), 599-617.
Rohini Pande og Ben Olken : Corruption in developing countries, Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4:479–509.
Fisman, R., & Miguel, E. (2007). Corruption, norms, and legal enforcement: Evidence from diplomatic parking tickets. Journal of Political economy, 115(6), 1020-1048.
Fisman, Raymond, Florian Schulz and Vikrant Vig, “Private Returns to Public Office,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 122, No. 4 (August 2014), pp. 806-862
9) Social Democracy and Complementary Institutions
Barth, E. and K.O. Moene: "The Equality Multiplier", 2013. ESOP working paper. Pretty version (UiO only).
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Thierry Verdier: “Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World” NBER Working Paper No. 18441, 2012