Syllabus/achievement requirements

@ = material available online

Books

Persson, T. and Tabellini, G. Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy, 2000. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 0262161958. Chapter 1-7 and 13.

Articles

@ Acemoglu, D., Egorov G. and Sonin, K. Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies, 2008. Review of Economic Studies, 75(4). DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00503.x

@ Alesina, A., and Tabellini, G. A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt, 1990. The Review of Economic Studies, 57(3): 403-414. E-ISSN: 1467937X.

@ Bertrand, M., Bombardini, M. and Trebbi. F. Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process. 2014. American Economic Review, 104(12): 3885-3920. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.12.3885

@ Brollo, F., Nannicini, T., Perotti, R., and Tabellini, G. The Political Resource Curse, 2013. American Economic Review, 103(5): 1759-1796. DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.5.1759.

@ Brunner, E., Ross, S. L. and Washington, E. Economics and Policy Preferences: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals, 2011. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93:(3): 888-906. DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00088.

@ Colonnelli, E., Prem, M. and Teso, E. Patronage in the Allocation of Public Sector Jobs, 2018. Mimeo (pdf).

@ DellaVigna, S. and Kaplan, E. The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting, 2007. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(3): 1187-1234. ISSN: 0033-5533.

@ Ferraz, C. and Finan, F. Exposing corrupt politicians: the effects of Brazil's publicly released audits on electoral outcomes, 2008. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(2): 703-745. ISSN: 0033-5533.

@ Ferraz, C., and Finan, F. Electoral accountability and corruption: Evidence from the audits of local governments, 2011. American Economic Review 101(4): 1274-1311. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.4.1274.

@ Folke, O. Shades of Brown and Green: Party Effects in Proportional Election Systems, 2014. Journal of the European Economic Association 12(5): 1361¨C1395. DOI: 10.1111/jeea.12103.

@ Fujiwara, T. and Wantchekon, L. Can informed public deliberation overcome clientelism? Experimental evidence from Benin, 2013. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5(4): 241-55. DOI: 10.1257/app.5.4.241.

@ Hassler, J., Rodriguez, M. J.V., Storesletten, K., and Zilibotti, F., The Survival of the Welfare State, 2013. American Economic Review, 93(1): 87-112. DOI: 10.1257/000282803321455179.

@ Lind, J. T. : Why is there so little redistribution?, 2005. Nordic Journal of Political Economy 31. 111-.125. ISSN: 1891-1854.

@ Lind, J. T. Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes, 2017. Mimeo (pdf).

@ Persson, T., and Svensson, L. E. O. Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time- Inconsistent Preferences, 1989.The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 104(2): 325-345. E-ISSN: 15314650.

@ Snyder, J. M. and Str?mberg, D. Press Coverage and Political Accountability, 2010. Journal of Political Economy, 118(2): 355-408. E-ISSN: 1537534X.

@ Song, Z., Storesletten, K. and Zilibotti, F. Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt, 2012. Econometrica, 80(6): 2785-2803. DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8910.

@ Wang, Y. Will China Escape the Middle-Income Trap? A Politico-Economic Theory of State Capitalism and Growt, 2016. Mimeo (pdf).