P. Keefer - Other Publications

Databases

• Database on Political Institutions 2004

Journal Articles

• "Elections, Special Interests and Financial Crisis," International Organization (forthcoming).
• "Boondoggles, Rent-seeking and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment Under Unaccountable Governments," with S. Knack, Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).
• "Democracy, Public Expenditures and the Poor," with S. Khemani, World Bank Research Observer 20:1, p. 1-28, Spring 2005.
• "From settler mortality to patrimonialism: weaving the dynamics of political competition into the political economy of development," The Political Economist (Winter 2005).
• "Why do the Poor Receive Poor Services?" with S. Khemani, Economic and Political Weekly, 39:9, 935-943 (February 28, 2004).
• "The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy," with D. Stasavage, American Political Science Review  97:3, 407-423 (August, 2003).
• "Checks and Balances, Private Information and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments," with D. Stasavage, International Organization 56:4, 751-774 (Fall 2002).
• "Polarization, Property Rights and the Links between Inequality and Growth," with S. Knack, Public Choice 111:1-2, 127-154 (March 2002).
• New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy - The Database of Political Institutions. World Bank Economic Review, 2001.

• "Does one size fit all? Fitting economic reforms to political institutions," Journal of Institutional Innovation, Development and Transition. (March 2000).

• "La política y los factores determinantes de las crisis bancarias," Administración y Desarrollo (Colombia) 36: 46 – 73 (November 1999).
• "Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights and Economic Performance," with C. Clague, S. Knack and M. Olson, Journal of Economic Growth 4:2, 185-210 (June 1999).
• "Does Social Capital have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-country Investigation," with S. Knack. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112:1251-88 (November 1997).
• "Why don’t poor countries catch up? A cross-national test of an institutional explanation," with S. Knack, Economic Inquiry 35:3, 590-602 (July 1997).
• "Does Inequality Harm Growth Only in Democracies? A Replication and Extension," with S. Knack, American Journal of Political Science 41:1 (January 1997).
• "Property and Contract Rights under Democracy and Dictatorship", with C. Clague, S. Knack and M. Olson, The Journal of Economic Growth 1:2, 243-276 (June 1996).
• "Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads," Journal of Economic History 56:1, 170-192 (March 1996).

Chapters in Books

• "Decentralization in Pakistan: Are Local Politicians Likely to be More Accountable?" with A. Narayan, and T. Vishwanath. In Decentralization to Local Governments in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective, P. Bardhan and D. Mookherjee (eds.), MIT Press, (forthcoming).
• "Social capital, social norms and the new institutional economics," with S. Knack, in the Handbook of the New Institutional Economics, C. Ménard and M. Shirley, (eds.),  Dordecht, The Netherlands: Springer,p. 701-26, 2005.

• "Privatization in Transition Economies: Politics as Usual?", with M. Shirley, in Structure and Policy in Presidential Democracies?, S. Haggard and M. McCubbins (eds.), Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming).

• "What does political economy tell us about economic development -- and vice versa?" In the Annual Review of Political Science, N. Polsby (ed.), Palo Alto: Annual Review p. 247-72, 2004.

• "Social Polarization, Political Institutions, and Country Creditworthiness," with S. Knack, in Collective Choice: Essays in Honor of Mancur Olson, D. Coates and J. Heckelman (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• "Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances." in Banking, Financial Integration, and International Crises, L. Hernandez and K. Schmidt-Hebbel, (eds.), Santiago: Central Bank of Chile, 2002.
• "Economic Liberalization: Conditions and Cases from the Developing World," with McCubbins and Heller, in The Origins of Liberty, P. Drake and M. McCubbins (eds.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
• "Political Stability and Economic Stagnation," with S. Knack, Chapter 7 in The political dimension of economic growth: Proceedings of the IEA conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica, S. Borner and M. Paldam (eds.), 136 – 153, 1998.
• "Institutions and Economic Performance: Property Rights and Contract Enforcement," and "Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Institutions Supportive of Economic Growth," with C. Clague, S. Knack and M. Olson, in Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries, C. Clague (ed.), Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
• "The Politics of Public Enterprise Reform," chapter four of Bureaucrats in Business: The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership, World Bank Policy Research Report, The World Bank, 1995.