Research Papers in Progress
- Reseach Papers:
- Alston, Lee J., Edwyna Harris, and Bernardo Mueller. "The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms and Politics". (September 2011).
- Kinzig, Ann, Lee Alston, Kenneth Arrow, Elinor Ostrom, et al. "Norms and Global Environmental Problems" (2009).
- Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller. "Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil". Working Paper University of Colorado (January 2011). NBER Working Paper No. 15771 (March 2010).
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph P. Ferrie. "Mobility on the Agricultural Ladder and Intergenerational Wealth Transfers in U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1920". Working Paper University of Colorado (November 2008).
- Alston, Lee J., Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. "The Choices Governors Make: Political Institutions and Economic Performance in Brazil (October 2008).
- Alston, Lee J., Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. "Making the (Investment) Grade: Evolving Political Institutions and the Use of Presidential Powers in Brazil". Working Paper, University of Colorado (October 2008).
- Alston, Lee J., Gary Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. "Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil". NBER Working Paper No. 15865, (April 2010).
- Alston, Lee J. and Andres Gallo. "The Effects of Tenancy on Rural Production: The case of Argentina 1994-2002". Working Paper, University of Colorado (2008).
- Alston, Lee J., 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 2005).
- Alston, Lee J. "A Framework for Understanding the New Institutional Economics". Working Paper University of Colorado (December 2005).
- Alston, Lee J., Jeffrey T. LaFrance, and Randal Rucker. "An Economic Analysis of the Determinants of Farm Failure Rates, 1911-1980". Working Paper (February 1990).
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph Ferrie. "A Theory of In-Kind Compensation With an Application to Agriculture". Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (July 1989).
- Alston, Lee J. and Robert Higgs. "An Economist's Perspective on Southern Paternalism". Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (June 1983).
- Alston, Lee J. and Robert Higgs. "Firm versus Market: A Comment on Williamson's Model of the Resource Coordination Problem". University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working Paper (February 1982).
