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Lecture Notes

Notes are available for selected lectures below.

SES # TOPICS LECTURE Notes
11

History and culture

The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa (PDF - 2.5MB) (Courtesy of Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon. Used with permission.)

The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades (PDF ‑ 1.0MB) (Courtesy of Nathan Nunn. Used with permission.)
13 Introduction: evaluating the financial systems of emerging market economies Evaluating the financial systems of emerging market economies (PDF ‑ 1.9MB)
14-15

Conceptual frameworks for measurement

Wealth accumulation and factors accounting for success (PDF 1 - 6.0MB) (PDF 2 - 2.5MB) (Courtesy of Anan Pawasutipaisit and Robert Townsend. Used with permission.)

Villages as open economies (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (Courtesy of Archawa Paweenawat and Robert Townsend. Used with permission.)
17 Testing neo-classical standards Impact of climate change on rice production in Thailand (PDF) (Courtesy of John Felkner, Kamilya Tazhibayeva, and Robert Townsend. Used with permission.)
20 Mechanism design Enterprise dynamics and finance: distinguishing mechanism design from exogenously incomplete markets models (PDF) (Courtesy of Alexander Karaivanov and Robert Townsend. Used with permission.)