K. Hoff - Other Publications

Research Topics:

• Economic Development
• Finance and Saving
• International Economics
• Political Economy

• "Making up People: Behavioral Effects on Caste",  with Priyanka Pandey, World Bank Policy Working Paper 6223. October 2012.
  Online Material 
• Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence on Society on Preferences, with Ernt Fehr, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5760. August 2011.
  Economic Journal November 2011 (forthcoming).
  • Powerpoint 
• Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement, Economic Journal November 2011 (forthcoming).
  • Non-technical Summary | 
• "Fairness in Modern Society", Science 327 (5972), 1467-68. March 2010.
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• "Spite and Development", with E. Fehr and M. Kshetramade, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings 98(2), 494-99. May 2008.
• "Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity". American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. 2010.
  Also published as "The Role of Cognitive Frames in Societal Rigidity and Change: (2011), and NBER working paper w15776
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• Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation,with A. Sen, American Economics Review 95(4), 1167-1189. September 2005.
  • Unpublished appendix, "A More General Model of Contracting between a Household and Real Estate Company“
• Opportunity is Not Everything: How Belief Systems and Mistrust Shape Responses to Economic Incentives with P. Pandey Economics of Transition 13 (2), Special issue on Institutions and Economic Performance, 445-472. July 2005.
• "Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities", with P. Pandey, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 206-211. May 2006.  
  Earlier published as Belief Systems and Durable Inequalities: An Experimental Investigation of Indian Caste, with P. Pandey, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3351. June 2004.
  • Powerpoint
• "Poverty Traps", with S. Bowles, S. Durlauf (eds.), March 2004, Princeton University Press. 2006.
  • Review: Journal of Economic Literature, by D. Aaronson, Vol. XLIV, pp. 1054-1056. Dec. 2006.
  • Review, by David McKenzie, World Bank.
• Paths of Institutional Development: A View from Economic History, World Bank Research Observer 18(2) Fall 2003, 2205-226. Fall 2003
• Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: The Modern Theory of Coordination Problems in Development, Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000,Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 145-188. 2001.
• Modern Economic Theory and Development, with J.Stiglitz, in Frontiers of Development Economics, G. Meier and J.E. Stiglitz (eds.), Oxford University Press, 389-459. 2001.
• International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2nd edition, with J. Stiglitz, Malcolm Warner (ed.), London : Berkshire House, pp. 6041-6054. 2001.
• "The Kin System as a Poverty Trap?" with A. Sen, in Poverty Traps, S. Bowles, S. Durlauf, and K. Hoff (eds.), Dearborn Publishers. 2001.
• Comment on R. Kanbur and N. Lustig, Why Is Inequality Back on the Agenda, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999, Washington DC : World Bank, 307-13. 2000.
• Comment on A. Banerjee, Land Reforms: Prospects and Strategies, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999, Washington DC : World Bank, pp. 275-284. 2000.
• Coordination Failures, Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, May 2000.
• The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice, and Policy, with A. Braverman and J. Stiglitz (eds.). Oxford University Press, 1993.
• "Review of The Economics of Rural Organization", by D. Ray, in Journal of Economic Literature 32. Dec. 1994.
• "Market Failures and the Distribution of Wealth: A Perspective from the Economics of Information", Politics and Society 24, 411-432. 1996.
  • Reprinted in Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States, and Markets, S. Bowles and H. Gintis (eds.), Verso, ch. 16. 1998.
  • Translated into Portuguese: Distribuicao de Riqueza e Crescimento Economico, Estudos Nead 2, Brasilia, Brazil, NEAD, 61-94. 2000.
• "Non-Leaky Buckets: Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Agency Costs", with A. Lyon, Journal of Public Economics 58, 365-90. 1995.
• "The Second Theorem of the Second Best", Journal of Public Economics 25, 223-242, 1994.
• "Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping: Was Henry George Right?" World Bank Economic Review 5, 93-112. 1991.

• "Dysfunctional Finance: Positive Shocks and Negative Outcomes", Journal of Globalization and Development, 1 (1). 2010.
  Also published as Dysfunctional Finance: Positive Shocks and Negative Outcomes, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5183, World Bank. 2009.
• "Moneylenders and Bankers: Price-Increasing Subsidies with Monopolistic Competition", with J. Stiglitz, Journal of Development Economics 55, 485-518. 1998.
• :Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets: Puzzles and Policy Perspectives", with J. Stiglitz, World Bank Economic Review 5, 235-250. 1990.

• "Bayesian Learning in a Model of Infant Industries", Journal of International Economics 42, 409-436. 1997.
• "A Reexamination of the Neoclassical Trade Model under Uncertainity", Journal of International Economics 36, 1-27. 1994.

• "Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity", American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 100, 141-146. May 2010.
• "Turnover in Power as a Restraint on Investing in Influence: Evidence from the Post- Communist Transition", with B. Milanovic and S. Horowitz, Economics and Politics 2010, forthcoming.
• Government Turnover: Concepts, Measures, and Applications, European Jounal of Political Research 45(1): 107-129. 2009.
• Exiting a Lawless State, with J. Stiglitz, Economic Journal 118 (531). August 2008.
  
  • Exiting a Lawless State (old title: The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights: The political and economic consequences of a corrupt privatization), with J. Stiglitz.
    Supplemental materials:  Excel spreadsheets for numerical examples |  Powerpoint
• Political Alternation, Regardless of Ideology, Diminishes Influence Buying: Lessons from Transitions in Former Communist States, with S. Horowtiz and B. Milanovic, Policy Outlook, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1-6. January 2005.
• After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies, with J. Stiglitz, American Economic Review 94(3), 753-763. June 2004.
  • Powerpoint
• The Transition Process in Post-Communist Societies: Towards a Political Economy of Property Rights, with J. Stiglitz, in Toward Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions and Globalization, B. Tungodden, N. Stern, and I. Kolstad (eds.), World Bank/Oxford University Press, 231-245. 2004.
  Also circulated under the title “The Transition from Communism: A Diagrammatic Exposition of Obstacles to the Demand for the Rule of Law,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3352. 2004.
• Can Privatization Come Too Soon? Politics after the Big Bang in Post-Communist Societiesin Economics for an Imperfect World, R. Arnott, B. Greenward, R. Kanbur, and B. Nalebuff (eds.), MIT Press, pp. 549-565. 2003.