• Introduction

1. Douglass C. North.  Institutions. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Winter, 1991), pp. 97-112.

2. David G. Blanchflower, International Evidence on Well-Being. NBER Working Paper No w14318, 2008.

• Capitalism
3. Ouarda Merrouche and Erlend Nier, What Caused the Global Financial Crisis?—Evidence on the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999–2007. IMF WP/10/265, 2010.

4. Jagdish Bhagwati & Peter Sutherland. The Doha Round: setting a deadline, defining a final deal. Intergovernmental Experts' Group, Interim report – January 2011.

5. Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian, Multilateralism Beyond Doha, Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper 08-8, October 2008.

6. N. Gregory Mankiw and Phillip Swagel. The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing. Journal of Monetary Economics. Vol. 53 (2006), pp. 1027–1056.

• Socialism
7. Andrei Shleifer, State versus Private Ownership. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Autumn, 1998), pp. 133-150.

• Economic Development

8. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. NBER Working Paper No. w7771, June 2000.

  

9. Justin Yifu Lin. From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing Countries. World Bank, WPS5702, June 2011.

10. Antoni Estevadeordal and Alan M. Taylor, Is the Washington Consensus Dead? NBER Working Paper No. w14264, 2008.

11. Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, and Roberta Gatti. Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor. NBER Working Paper No. 10980, December 2004 

12. Thomas Sikor and Daniel Muller. The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction. World Development. Vol. 37, No. 8 (2009).

• Western Hemisphere

13. John McLaren and Shushanik Hakobyan. Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA. NBER Working Paper No. 16535, November 2010.

14. Gary C. Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott. The Prospects for Deeper North American Economic Integration: A U.S. Perspective. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary: The Border Papers, January 2004.


• United States

  15. Marc Labonte. Reducing the Budget Deficit: Policy Issues. Congressional Research Service, April 22, 2011.

  16. Molly F. Sherlock. Reducing the Budget Deficit: Tax Policy Options. Congressional Research Service, April 26, 2011.

  17. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective. NBER Working Paper No. 12404, July 2006
  
  18. Michael D. Bordo, An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008. NBER Working Paper No. 14569, December 2008.

  19. Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett, The Early 21st Century U.S. Productivity Expansion is Still in Services. International Productivity Monitor, Spring 2007, pp. 3-19.  
  
  

• Latin America

20. Paul Glewwe and Ana Lucia Kassouf, The Impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Enrollment, Drop Out Rates and Grade Promotion in Brazil. U. Minnesota and U. Sao Paulo, August, 2010.

21. Laurence M. Ball, Nicolás De Roux, and Marc Hofstetter. Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean. NBER Working Paper No. 17274, August 2011.

22. Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Growth and Reforms in Latin America: A Survey of Facts and Arguments. IMF WP/06/210, September 2006.

23. Paulo Nakatani and Rémy Herrera, Structural Changes and Planning of the Economy in Revolutionary Venezuela. Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 40, No. 3, Summer 2008.  

 

• Western Europe

  24. Diego Valiante. The Eurozone Debt Crisis: From its origins to a way forward. CEPS Policy Brief, No. 251, August 2011.

  25. Maria Skovager Jensen, Kim Martin Lind, and Henrik Zobbe. Enlargement of the European Union and Agricultural Policy Reform. European Integration, Vol. 31, No. 3, 329–348, May 2009.

  26. Christian Kopf. Restoring financial stability in the euro area. CEPS Policy Brief, No. 237, March 2011.

  27. Alberto Alesina, Rafael Di Tella, and Robert MacCulloch, Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different? NBER Working Paper No. w8198, 2001.  

  28. Philip R. Lane. The Real Effects of European Monetary Union. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 20, Number 4 (Fall 2006), pp. 47–66.   

• Great Britain

  29. Richard Green and Jonathan Haskel, Seeking a Premier League Economy: the Role of Privatisation. CEP/IFS/NBER conference, Seeking a Premier League Economy, London, 2000.  

  30. John Pencavel, The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain. Stanford University, 2001.

  31. John Van Reenen, No More Skivvy Schemes? Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context. University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2001.
  
  

• Germany
32 Michael C. Burda and Jennifer Hunt. What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession? NBER Working Paper No. 17187, June 2011.

33. Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower, East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market. Kiel Working Papers No. 1435, 2008.

34. Michael Whittall. Modell Deutschland under Pressure: The Growing Tensions between Works Councils and Trade Unions. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2005.

 

• France

  35. Jean-Claude Barbier, The French Social Protection System in the Throes of Reform (1975-2007). Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne CNRS Working Paper, 2007.48

   

  36. Jonah D. Levy, The State After Statism: French Economic and Social Policy in the Age of Globalization. Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 2002.   

   

• Sweden

  37. Geoffrey E. Schneider, Sweden's Economic Recovery and the Theory of Comparative Institutional Advantage. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLI, No. 2, June 2007.
   

  38. Martin Lundin and Per Skedinger. Decentralisation of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of Swedish Local Employment Service Committees. Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 90 (2006), pp. 775–798.  

  39. F. Mikael Sandström and Fredrik Bergström, School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You! Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Working Paper No. 578, 2002.  

  40. David Rae. Getting Better Value for Money from Sweden’s Healthcare System. OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 443, 2005.

  Central Eurasia

  41. Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger, and John Van Reenen. The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 17231, July 2011.

  42. Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Yegor Grygorenko. Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 36, 2008.

  43. Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar. Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies. World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper 4811 (January 2009).

  44. Sergio Godoy and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later. NBER Working Paper No. 11992, January 2006.  
  

• Asia

44. Rolf J. Langhammer. The Asian Way of Regional Integration: Are There Lessons from Europe? Kiel Economic Policy Papers, No. 7 (January 2007).  

 

46. David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey G. Williamson. India’s De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence. Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Discussion Paper No. 2039, June 2004.

 

47. W. Max Corden, The Asian Crisis: a Perspective after Ten Years. Australian National University Working Paper, 2007.

 

48. Kwame S. Jomo, Lessons From The East Asian Crisis of 1997-98. World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Oslo, 2002.
 

• Japan 

  49. Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura, Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth. NBER Working Paper No. 13171, June 2007.

  50. Hiroshi Ono and Marcus E Rebick, Constraints On The Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan. NBER-CEPR-EIJS conference, 2002. 

  52. Hyeong-ki Kwon. Japanese Employment Relations in Transition. Economic and Industrial Democracy, August 2004.
  
  53. Kathryn L. Dewenter. The Risk-Sharing Role of Japanese Keiretsu Business Groups: Evidence from Restructuring in the 1990s. Japan and the World Economy. Vol. 15, Issue 3 (August 2003), pp. 261-274.

•  China

54. Yang Yao and Ninghua Zhong, Unions Improve Chinese Workers' Welfare; Results from 1,268 Firms. China Center for Economic Research, Working Paper 2010-04, April 2010.

55. Wei Li and Dennis Tao Yang. The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster. Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 113 (2005), pp. 840-877.

 

56. Bai, Chong-En, Lu, Jiangyong and Tao, Zhigang, How Does Privatization Work in China? Munich Personal RePEc Archive no. 6599, August 2007. 

57. Lee Branstetter and Nicholas Lardy. China’s Embrace of Globalization. NBER Working Paper 12373, July 2006.

58. Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, and Yaohui Zhao, The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4493, October 2009.

59. Ying Fang and Yang Zhao. Do institutions matter? Estimating the effect of institutions on economic performance in China. BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 9, 2009.

60. Wendy Dobson and Anil Kashyap, The Contradiction in China’s Gradualist Banking Reforms. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:2006.
 

• Africa

61. Miguel Nino-Zarazua, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, and Sam Hickey, Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom? MPRA Paper No. 22422, April 2010.

62. Daniel Ayalew Ali, Stefan Dercon, and Madhur Gautam, Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4363, September 2007

 

63. Nathan Nunn and Diego Puga. Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa. NBER Working Paper 14918, April 2009.
 
64. Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Macartan Humphreys, and Smita Singh. Institutions and Development. CID Working Paper No. 107, September 2004.

65. Robert H. Bates. Political Reform. Harvard Center for International Development Working Paper No. 114, 2005.