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(UBS Pensions Series 030) Credible Pensions 0 0 3 42 0 1 13 98
(UBS Pensions series 12) Pension Fund Governance and the Choice Between Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans 0 1 11 76 0 4 28 183
An Economic Model of Representative Democracy 3 17 41 208 7 36 92 448
An Economic Model of Representative Democracy' 15 52 161 780 30 101 321 1,534
Analyzing the Case for Government Intervention in a Representative Democracy 2 7 39 158 9 34 132 1,883
Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India 9 33 90 714 11 53 195 1,077
Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India 4 11 32 311 11 33 96 980
Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: A Political Economy Analysis 2 23 96 920 12 66 269 3,012
Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: a Political Economy Analysis 4 17 55 523 12 42 148 1,367
Commodity indexed debt in international lending 0 3 6 22 1 8 22 93
Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents 2 9 43 222 7 18 97 423
Diffusion as a Learning Process: Evidence from HYV Cotton 4 13 91 155 7 26 181 285
Diffusion as a Learning Process: Evidence from HYV Cotton 0 0 0 3 10 35 113 736
Does Electoral Accountability Affect Economic Policy Choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits 4 15 63 202 12 28 121 837
Does Tax Competition Raise Voter Welfare? 0 4 25 178 2 15 69 351
Efficient Policy Choice in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis 0 1 5 42 0 4 17 93
Efficient Policy Choice in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis' 0 2 8 132 1 6 23 451
Elected Versus Appointed Regulators: Theory And Evidence 2 10 19 114 7 20 50 325
Elected versus Appointed Regulators: Theory and Evidence 0 5 14 165 1 8 33 500
Electoral Bias and Policy Choice:Theory and Evidence 0 2 12 15 0 4 23 33
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence 3 11 32 83 6 22 70 189
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence 0 2 17 75 2 12 40 186
Fiscal Anarchy in the U.K.: Modelling Poll Tax Noncompliance 1 4 17 85 4 16 112 1,611
Fiscal Restraints and Voter Welfare 5 10 34 53 6 12 61 93
Fiscal anarchy in the UK 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 187
Fiscal anarchy in the UK: modelling poll tax noncompliance 0 0 0 0 2 8 19 734
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM WITH PARALLEL MARKETS FOR GOODS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE: THEORY AND APPLICATION FOR GHANA 0 0 0 0 0 4 22 367
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods 3 9 55 594 6 34 169 1,623
Group Lending, Repayment Incentives And Social Collateral 0 0 0 8 34 142 452 1,633
Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability 2 12 44 65 5 28 106 160
Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability 4 16 34 237 5 29 91 641
Household External Finance and Consumption 2 5 14 14 4 12 33 33
Household External Finance and Consumption 1 2 4 4 4 8 11 11
How Do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Markets? 0 0 0 3 5 23 74 876
INDIVIDUAL RATIONALITY AND THE SOCIAL VALUATION OF LIFE 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 509
Implementation of Anti-Discrimination Policy: Does Judicial Selection Matter? 0 5 12 55 8 25 93 371
Implementation of Anti-Discrimination Policy:Does Judicial Selection Matter? 1 2 17 24 4 13 67 111
Incentives, choice and accountability in the provision of public services 5 8 44 313 9 19 97 711
Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and Yardstick Competition 5 12 29 209 11 24 76 648
Insiders versus Outsiders in Monetary Policy-Making 1 3 26 40 4 18 82 99
Issue Unbundling via Citizens' Initiatives 0 1 6 44 2 8 25 236
Issue Unbundling via Citizens' initiatives 4 7 11 62 8 15 33 221
Judicial accountability and economic policy outcomes: evidence from employment discrimination charges 0 2 14 106 6 17 73 521
Just Rewards?Local Politics and Public ResourceAllocation in South India 4 16 41 79 13 36 108 691
Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India 0 12 44 442 3 28 111 3,083
Lobbying and Welfare in a Representative Democracy - (Now published in Review of Economic Studies, 68 (2001), pp.67-82.) 0 0 0 2 3 16 28 1,347
Making Autocracy Work 8 15 74 154 10 29 161 581
Making Autocracy Work 4 11 43 107 7 28 140 328
Monitoring And Wage Incentives: Capitulation Vs. Efficiency Wages 0 0 0 0 3 6 31 635
Monopsony and Time-Consistency: Sustainable Pricing Policies for Perennial Grops 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 296
Moral Hazard and Limited Liability in the Market for Loans: Credit Restriction Versus Credit Rationing 0 5 16 199 2 12 37 689
Naming & Shaming: The impacts of different regimes on hospital waiting times in England and Wales 0 1 1 1 5 5 5 5
On the Allocative Performance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations 0 0 0 1 1 4 11 273
On the Allocative Performance of Rotative Savings and Credit Associations 0 0 0 1 3 10 32 307
PEER GROUP EXTERNALITIES AND THE LEARNING INCENTIVES: A THEORY OF NERD BEHAVIOR 0 0 0 2 8 20 76 865
PUBLIC PROVISION OF PRIVATE GOODS AND THE REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME 0 0 0 1 4 19 81 643
Pension Fund Governance and the Choice Between Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans 1 4 20 273 8 23 83 758
Pension fund governance and the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans 1 2 13 141 2 7 38 390
Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States 2 6 32 191 7 17 77 438
Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States 1 6 30 150 3 14 78 429
Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States 1 5 18 155 4 11 47 364
Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States 2 6 22 254 4 12 59 516
Political Selection and the Qualilty of Government: Evidence from South India 2 5 25 114 8 19 66 303
Political Selection and the Quality of Evidence: Evidence form South India 2 3 3 3 3 8 8 8
Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India 0 2 9 10 1 5 30 45
Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India 1 1 14 90 2 9 37 216
Political Selection and the Quality ofGovernment: Evidence from South India 1 5 20 74 2 11 48 175
Political institutions and policy choices: evidence from the United States 0 8 31 298 2 14 59 608
Property Rights and Economic Development 18 105 105 105 30 67 68 68
Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Micro-Evidence from Ghana 0 0 0 2 8 21 64 535
Public-Private Partnership for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs 1 11 37 368 4 21 73 664
Read My Lips: The Political Economy of Information Transmission 1 4 7 68 1 6 28 717
Read my lips: the political economy of information transmission 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 220
Sales Taxes and Prices: An Empirical Analysis 5 19 116 422 11 39 357 1,252
Savings, Credit and Insurance 0 0 0 0 17 66 393 956
TARGETING TAXES AND TRANSFERS: ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND POLICY DESIGN IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 140
TAX COMPLIANCE AND CORRUPTION DETERRENCE: THE ROLE OF WAGE INCENTIVES 0 0 0 0 2 4 16 243
TAXATION AND WELFARE IN AN OLIGOPOLY WITH STATEGIC COMMITMENT 0 0 0 1 2 10 38 209
THE ECONOMICS OF ROTATING SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS 0 0 0 2 9 14 27 463
THE ECONOMICS OF ROTATING SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS 0 0 0 0 10 23 62 555
The Design Of Income Maintenance Programs 0 0 0 0 8 22 62 531
The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations 0 0 0 4 13 46 111 961
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence 5 12 37 37 5 16 19 19
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence 9 23 51 51 12 36 71 71
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics 6 24 61 215 16 48 142 324
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics 2 9 33 96 13 27 89 194
The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India 8 26 58 401 30 72 185 1,251
The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India 2 17 64 446 4 34 139 1,211
The Public Critique of Welfare Economics: An Exploration 1 4 18 270 9 22 91 1,236
The Role of Informal Finance in Household Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Taiwan 0 0 0 4 7 15 58 657
The de Soto Effect 12 17 17 17 23 39 39 39
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter? 0 0 0 0 9 21 77 674
The economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations 0 0 0 3 9 14 39 578
The principles of targeting 4 20 74 252 16 55 165 837
Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Disign of Credit Cooperative with Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 1 1 9 33 625
Thy Neighbor's Keeper: the Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test 0 0 0 4 6 25 78 645
UNDERSTANDING WELFARE STIGMA: TAXPAYER RESENTMENT AND STATISTICAL DISCRIMINATION 0 0 0 0 11 29 147 1,036
Understanding the Worhouse Test: Information and poor Relief in Nineteenth-Century England 0 0 0 0 3 8 35 413
Unnatural Experiments? Estimating the Incidence of Endogenous Policies 2 6 35 261 8 19 74 846
Vertical Externalities in Tax Setting: Evidence from Gasoline and Cigarettes 0 3 19 95 2 9 64 366
Vertical externalities in tax settings: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes 0 0 0 0 6 12 33 303
WORKFARE VS. WELFARE: INCENTIVE ARGUMENTS FOR WORK REQUIREMENTS IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS 0 0 0 0 6 30 114 1,909
WORKFARE VS. WELFARE: INCENTIVE ARGUMENTS FOR WORK REQUIREMENTS IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS 7 21 47 47 15 43 138 2,274
Workfare vs. Welfare: Incentive Arguments For Work Requirements In Poverty Allevation Programs 0 0 0 0 37 132 478 2,678
Working or Shirking?A Closer Look at MPs’ Expenses and Parliamentary Attendance 2 8 12 16 5 20 29 44
Total Working Papers 203 778 2,471 12,987 752 2,479 8,977 66,217


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A Definition of Luxury and Necessity for Cardinal Utility Functions 1 6 46 230 10 34 246 1,294
A simple model for merit good arguments 10 22 70 134 19 47 188 399
An Economic Model of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 3 17 67 233 1,629
Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India 7 27 76 526 19 67 232 1,605
Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach 4 27 77 318 7 45 127 611
Commodity taxation and imperfect competition: A note on the effects of entry 3 4 29 62 7 12 55 115
Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents 6 15 65 163 12 32 121 353
Credible pensions 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 79
Decentralizing Public Good Supply 2 2 13 77 3 6 27 225
Development microeconomics: Pranab K. Bardhan and C. Udry, 1999, Clarendon Press: Oxford, pp. 237 3 14 61 196 3 26 120 426
Does Electoral Accountability Affect Economic Policy Choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits 6 14 59 233 13 25 104 746
Editorial 1 1 5 8 1 1 14 42
Elected Versus Appointed Regulators: Theory and Evidence 3 12 35 167 3 19 88 448
Electoral Bias and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence 1 3 26 44 4 7 85 151
Ex Ante Evaluation of Health States and the Provision for Ill-Health 0 0 2 10 1 1 7 99
Fiscal anarchy in the UK: Modelling poll tax noncompliance 0 0 5 21 2 5 20 153
Fiscal restraints and voter welfare 5 14 51 97 6 18 87 186
Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation 2 5 22 148 3 12 71 654
From micro to macro: public policies and aggregate economic performance 0 2 13 49 2 9 65 251
General equilibrium with parallel markets for goods and foreign exchange: Theory and application to Ghana 0 1 6 18 0 2 13 50
Government Versus Private Ownership Of Public Goods 3 7 43 473 8 22 108 1,290
Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral 25 99 280 1,110 46 169 516 1,806
Halving Global Poverty 2 11 40 315 5 24 90 949
Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability 5 16 48 49 9 52 186 355
Health and Democracy 2 22 53 54 14 46 136 262
How Do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Markets? 0 0 0 3 5 28 107 801
Hunger and public action: Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen (Oxford University Press, Oxford) 14 47 142 654 41 137 440 2,020
Incentives, Choice, and Accountability in the Provision of Public Services 0 0 0 1 7 9 74 400
Incumbent Behavior: Vote-Seeking, Tax-Setting, and Yardstick Competition 6 23 67 286 15 45 140 677
Insiders versus Outsiders in Monetary Policymaking 4 10 34 34 7 16 76 76
Invariance and the Axiomatics of Income Tax Progression: A Comment 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 77
James Mirrlees' Contributions to the Theory of Information and Incentives 1 4 13 114 1 9 31 326
Joseph Schumpeter Lecture: Paying Politicians: Theory and Evidence 1 5 38 94 1 9 67 178
L'offre de services publics par les acteurs non gouvernementaux 2 4 5 5 8 19 24 24
Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, And Growth: Evidence From India 1 11 47 683 4 23 123 2,269
Lobbying and Welfare in a Representative Democracy 0 0 0 1 3 22 78 731
Means Testing versus Universal Provision in Poverty Alleviation Programmes 1 6 33 135 4 14 108 539
Modeling Technology Adoption in Developing Countries 11 23 153 573 21 51 355 1,199
Monopsony and Time-Consistency: Sustainable Pricing Policies for Perennial Crops 0 1 3 32 0 2 10 154
Moral Hazard, Limited Liability and Taxation: A Principal-Agent Model 1 3 14 87 2 6 33 401
Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and Risk Sharing in Low-Income Countries 0 8 51 280 1 18 83 562
On the Public Choice Critique of Welfare Economics 0 3 20 74 2 9 51 262
Optimal reimbursement health insurance and the theory of Ramsey taxation 0 3 17 35 1 5 40 78
Optimal reimbursement health insurance: An application of profit functions and Frischian demands 0 0 2 9 3 3 6 57
Participatory Democracy in Action: Survey Evidence from South India 2 4 20 37 5 12 56 134
Peasant supply response under rationing: The role of the food market 0 1 4 21 0 1 9 73
Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States 0 0 0 3 12 38 125 734
Political Selection 0 3 14 45 1 9 51 162
Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media 3 14 40 197 5 19 79 542
Private and public health insurance in the UK 3 3 22 134 11 29 146 438
Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana 19 57 198 1,390 27 104 381 3,503
Public Provision of Private Goods and the Redistribution of Income 3 7 51 399 3 12 73 1,202
Publicly provided disaster insurance for health and the control of moral hazard 0 0 16 32 0 3 31 77
Rationing, Income Effects and Supply Response: A Theoretical Note 0 0 5 24 0 0 19 189
Reply 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
Repression or Civil War? 1 1 1 1 8 8 8 8
Retailing public goods: The economics of corporate social responsibility 6 10 53 78 10 20 108 160
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, Credit Markets and Efficiency 2 9 24 155 7 17 67 344
Sorting with Motivated Agents: Implications for School Competition and Teacher Incentives 2 2 11 34 3 6 25 87
Sources of Inefficiency in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis 8 15 56 360 12 26 111 1,037
Status Incentives 4 12 31 31 5 19 61 61
Taxation and Welfare in an Oligopoly with Strategic Commitment 1 2 12 46 2 6 34 246
Taxes and Bribery: The Role of Wage Incentives 1 9 65 475 7 25 191 1,549
The Demand for Health Care and Health Insurance 0 0 0 0 3 7 35 276
The Design of Income Maintenance Programmes 2 14 43 160 9 36 100 438
The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations 11 31 115 778 30 80 329 2,331
The New Political Economy 3 9 37 48 9 24 86 123
The Political Economy Of Government Responsiveness: Theory And Evidence From India 10 39 168 782 33 117 499 2,448
The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indian Local Governments 1 6 17 50 4 12 42 121
The Role of Informal Finance in Household Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Taiwan 1 6 41 210 7 22 120 577
The anatomy of an informal financial market: Rosca participation in Taiwan 2 5 26 103 5 15 68 282
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter? 2 2 23 195 3 7 46 427
The effects and policy implications of state aids to industry: an economic analysis 0 6 25 68 3 15 54 159
Three approaches to public economics 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 27
Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test 6 21 70 569 8 35 126 1,546
Tied-in credit with a monopoly product market 0 1 5 10 0 8 37 68
Understanding welfare stigma: Taxpayer resentment and statistical discrimination 2 12 57 250 7 30 145 720
Uniform taxation and consumer preferences 0 1 9 36 0 6 26 102
Unnatural Experiments? Estimating the Incidence of Endogenous Policies 3 17 70 270 6 28 120 610
Vertical externalities in tax setting: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes 1 2 13 41 1 4 30 148
Wars and State Capacity 4 7 29 29 7 18 64 64
Welfare Improving User Charges for Publicly Provided Private Goods 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 98
Workfare versus Welfare Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty-Alleviation Programs 5 14 45 481 8 21 89 1,786
Total Journal Articles 244 820 3,184 15,151 605 2,020 8,413 47,909


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Savings, credit and insurance 12 33 134 347 14 41 196 562
Total Chapters 12 33 134 347 14 41 196 562


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