MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

Now showing items 22-24 of 1293

    • Political Economy in a Changing World 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Ergorov, Georgy; Sonin, Konstantin (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-18)
      We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with ...

    • The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Glennester, Rachel; Kinnan, Cynthia (2013-06-06)
      This paper reports on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing the standard microcredit group-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected ...

    • Innovation, Reallocation and Growth 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, William (2013-06-05)
      The standard approach to policy-making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy, and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This essay ...