Department of Economics - Working Papers Series

2016

WP 1603

François Libois

Households in Times of War: Adaptation Strategies during the Nepal Civil War

WP 1602

Asha Gunawardena and Jean-Marie Baland

Targeting Disaster Aid in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

WP 1601

François Libois

Success and Failure of Communities Managing Natural Resources: Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies

2015

WP 1503

Elias Carroni and Simone Righi

Pricing in Social Networks under Limited Information

WP 1502

Elias Carroni

Behaviour Based Price Discrimination with Cross-Group Externalities

WP 1501

Elias Carroni

Competitive Behaviour-Based Price: Discrimination among Asymmetric Firms

2014

WP 1413

Joaquín Morales-Belpaire and Elena Serfilippi

NGOs under Autocracy

WP 1412

François Libois and Vincent Somville

Fertility, Household’s size and Poverty in Nepal

WP 1411

Cecilia Navarra and Elena Vallino

Who had the idea to build up a village organization? Some evidence from Senegal and Burkina Faso

WP 1410

Timothée Demont

Microcredit as insurance: evidence from Indian self-help groups

WP 1409

Gani Aldashev and Cecilia Navarra

Development NGO's: Basic Facts

WP 1408

Gani Aldashev, François Libois, Joaquin Morales Belpaire and Astrid Similon

Encouraging Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium

WP 1407

Elena Shubina, Gani Aldashev and Sabine Henry

From saddles to harrows: agricultural technology adoption during the Russian colonization in Kazakhstan

WP 1406

Gani Aldashev, Marco Marini and Thierry Verdier

Brothers in Alms? Coordination between Nonprofits on Markets for Donations

WP 1405

Gani Aldashev, Georg Kirchsteigerzand and Alexander Sebald

Assignment procedure biases in randomized policy experiments

WP 1404

Gani Aldashev, Michela Limardiz and Thierry Verdier

Watchdogs of the Invisible Hand: NGO Monitoring, Corporate Social Responsibility and Industry Equilibrium

WP 1403

Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone

Endogenous Enforcement Institutions

WP 1402

Marcus Dejardin and Helene Laurent

Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? A complement according to entrepreneurial motives

WP 1401

Guilhem Cassan

Affirmation action, education and gender: evidence from India

2013

WP 1307

Cecilia Navarra

How do worker cooperatives stabilize employment? The role of profit reinvestment into locked assets.

WP 1306

Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

Religion, politician identity and development outcomes: Evidences from India

WP 1305

Cecilia Navarra

Economics of Development NGOs: a survey of existing datasets

WP 1304

Romain Houssa and Marijke Verpoorten

The unintended consequence of an export ban : Evidence from Benin's shrimp sector

WP 1303

Anders Fredriksson

Bureaucracy intermediaries, corruption and red tape.

WP 1302

Vincenzo Bove, Leandro Elia and Petros Sekeris.

U.S. security strategy and the gains from bilateral trade.

WP 1301

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros.

Understanding and information failures: lessons from a health microinsurance program in India.

2012

WP 1215

Jean-Marie Baland, François Libois and Dilip Mookherjee.

Firewood collections and economic growth in rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a household panel.

WP 1214

Guilhem Cassan

Identity based policies and identity manipulation: evidence from Colonial Punjab.

WP 1213

Petros Sekeris

The tragedy of the commons in a violent world.

WP 1212

Joaquin Morales Belpaire

Decentralized aid and democracy.

WP 1211

Matthieu Delpierre, Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Risk as impediment to privatization? The role of collective fields in extended agricultural households.

WP 1210

Julie Hermans, Johanna Vanderstraeten, Marcus Dejardin, Dendi Ramdani, Erik Stam, Arjen Van Witteloostuijn

Ambitious entrepreneurship: antecedents and consequences.

WP 1209

Giacomo De Luca, Anastasia Litina and Petros G. Sekeris

Growth-Friendly Dictatorships.

WP 1208

Oleg Badunenku, Daniel J. Henderson and Romain Houssa

Significant drivers of growth in Africa.

WP 1207

Giacomo De Luca, Jean-François Maystadt, Petros G. Sekeris and John Ulimwengu

Mineral resources and conflicts in DRC: a case of ecological fallacy.

WP 1206

Vincenzo Verardi, Marjorie Gassner and Darwin Ugarte

Robustness for dummies.

WP 1205

Miron Tequame

Free Access to HAART and Pregnancy Response among HIV Patients. A Case Study from Cameroon.

WP 1204

Gani Aldashev and Jean-Marie Baland

Awereness and aids: a political economy perspective.

WP 1203

Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros and Vincenzo Verardi

Supposedly strong instruments and good leverage points.

WP 1202

Anders Fredriksson

Bureaucracy intermediaries, corruption and red tape.

WP 1201

François Libois and Vincenzo Verardi

Semiparametric fixed-effects estimator.

2011

WP 1119

Paolo Casini and Lore Vandewalle

Public good provision in India rural areas: the returns to collective action by microfinance groups.

WP 1118

Lore Vandewalle

The role of accountants in Indian microfinance groups: a trade-off between financial and non-financial benefits.

WP 1117

Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle

Socially disadvantaged groups and microfinance in India.

WP 1116

Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee

Forest degradation in the Himalayas: determinants and policy options.

WP 1115

Vincenzo Bove and Petros G. Sekeris

Economic determinants of third party intervention in civil war.

WP 1114

Martin Carree and Marcus Dejardin

Firm entry and exit in local markets: market pull and unemployement push.

WP 1113

Maoliang Ye, Sam Asher, Lozenzo Casaburi and Plamen Nikolov

One step at a time: does gradualism lead to coordination?

WP 1112

Marcus Dejardin

Entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior.

WP 1111

Gani Aldashev and Catherine Guirkinger

Deadly anchor: gender bias under Russian colonization of Kazakhstan.

WP 1110

Vincenzo Verardi and Nicolas Debarsy

Robison's √n-consistent semiparametric regression estimator in Stata.

WP 1109 

Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

The effect of land scarcity on farm structure: empirical evidence from Mali.

WP 1108

Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Transformation of the family under rising land pressure: a theoretical essay.

WP 1107

Stéphanie Weynants

Informal insurance with endogenous group size.

WP 1106

Vincent Somville

Daily collectors, public good provision and private consumption: theory and evidence from urban Benin.

WP 1105

Philippe Lemay-Boucher, Joel Noret and Vincent Somville

Double, double toil and trouble: an investigation on occult forces expenditure in Southern Benin.

WP 1104

Jean-Philippe Platteau and Vincent Somville

Elite capture through information distortion: uniformly distributed signal. 

WP 1103 

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Vincent Somville and Zaki Wahhaj

Elite capture through information distortion: a theoretical essay.

WP 1102

Giacomo De Luca, Petros G. Sekeris, and Juan F. Vargas

Beyond divide-and-rule: weak dictators, natural resources, and civil conflict

WP 1101

Romain Houssa

Uncertainty about welfare effects of consumption fluctuations.

2010

WP 1016

Nicolas Debarsy and Vincenzo Verardi 

Estimating nonlinearities in spatial autoregressive models.

WP 1015

Nicolas Gonne 

The impact of a carbon tax on sectors competitiveness.

Miron Tequame

HIV, risky behaviour and ethno-linguistic heterogeneity.

WP1001

Jean-Marie Baland and Cedric Duprez 

Made in dignity: the redistributive impact of social labeling.