Research Papers in Progress
- Reseach Papers:
- (Co-authored with Shannan Mattiace and Tomas Nonnenmacher) "Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915" February 2008.
- (Co-authored with Andrés A. Gallo) "Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina" September 2007.
- (Co-authored with Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira) “On the Brazilian Road to Good Governance: Recovering from Economic and Political Shocks” Working Paper (January 2006).
- (Co-authored with Andres Gallo) "The Erosion of Checks and Balances in Argentina: An Explanation for Argentina's Economic Slide from the Top Ten (October 2005).
- (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil" Working Paper (June 2005).
- (Co-authored with Joseph P. Ferrie) "Shaping Welfare Policies in the U.S., 1895-1965: Economic Interests and Political Institutions in the South." Working Paper (September 2005).
- (Co-authored with Herbert Emery, Randal Rucker and Marc Weidenmeir) "Did U.S. Agricultural Policy Lock Farmers into Wheat? The Capitalization of Farm Policies into Land Prices in the U.S. and Canada" Working Paper (September 2004).
- (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller) "Land Differentiation, Land Conflict and the Decline of Agricultural Tenancy in Brazil" Working Paper (August 2004).
- "A Framework for Understanding the New Institutional Economics." Working Paper (February 2002).
