A. Kraay - Publications (by topic)

Please visit www.govindicators.org for more information on the Worldwide Governance Indicators project, as well as web-based data access

• Can Specific Policy Indicators Identify Reform Priorities?, with N. Tawara.
  • Web Appendix A
  • Web Appendix B
• Corruption and Confidence in Public Institutions : Evidence from a Global Survey, with B. Clausen and Z. Nyiri, World Bank Economic Review, 2011.
• The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, The Hague Journal of Rule of Law, 2011.
• Does Respondent Retcence Affect the Result of Corruption Surveys? Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for Nigeria, with B.Clausen and P. Murrell, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5415. 2010.
• Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators 1996-2008, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper  4978. 2009.
• Governance Matters VII: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators 1996-2007, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4654. 2008.
• Governance Indicators: Where Are We, And Where Should We Be Going? with D. Kaufmann, World Bank Research Observer. 2008.
• Governance Matters VI: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators 1996-2006, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4280. 2007.
• The Worldwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the Critics, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4149. 2007.
• Governance Matters V: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators 1996-2005, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4012. 2006.
• Measuring Governance Using Perceptions Data, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, in Edward Elgar Handbook of Economic Corruption, S. Rose-Ackerman (ed.).  Forthcoming.
• Governance Matters IV: Governance Indicators for 1996-2004, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3630. 2005.
• Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002, with D. Kaufmann and M. Mastruzzi, World Bank Economic Review. 2004.
• Growth without Governance, with D. Kaufmann, Economia. 2002.
• Governance Matters II: Updated Governance Indicators for 2000-01, with D. Kaufmann and P. Zoido-Lobatón, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2772.  2002.
• "Governance Matters", with D. Kaufmann and P. Zoido-Lobatón, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2196. 1999.
• Aggregating Governance Indicators, with D. Kaufmann and P. Zoido-Lobatón, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2195. 1999.
• This project has prompted various critiques that are addressed here
  • Growth and Governance: A Reply, Journal of Politics, Vol. 69:2, pp.553-560. May 2007.
  • Growth and Governance: A Rejoinder, Journal of Politics, Vol. 69:2, pp. 568-570. May 2007.
  • The Wordwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the Critics
  • Response to "What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?", European Journal of Development Research. Forthcoming.
  • The Worldwide Governance Indicatiors: Six, One, or None 

• Does Respondent Retcence Affect the Result of Corruption Surveys? Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for Nigeria, with B.Clausen and P. Murrell, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5415. 2010.
• Can disaggregated indicators identify governance reform priorities?, with N. Tawara, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5254. 2010.
• Corruption and Confidence in Public Institutions : Evidence from a Global Survey, with B. Clausen and Z. Nyiri, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5157. 2009.
• Governance Indicators: Where Are We, And Where Should We Be Going? with D. Kaufmann, World Bank Research Observer.  2008.
• Growth without Governance, with D. Kaufmann, Economia.  2002.
  

• The Welfare Effects of a Large Depreciation: The Case of Egypt 2000-2005, in The Egyptian Economy: Current Challenges and Future Prospects, H. Kheir-El-Din (ed.). 2008.
• When Is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence. Journal of Development Economics. 2006.
• Growth is Good for the Poor, with D. Dollar, Journal of Economic Growth. 2002.
  • Dataset (Excel format, 397kb) |  Dataset (Zip file, 121kb)
  • A short summary from Development Outreach (2000) 
    • A critique of this paper | Our response 
    • Another critique of this paper | Our response
• Spreading the Wealth, with D. Dollar. Foreign Affairs.  2001.

• Trade, Growth, and Poverty, with D. Dollar, The Economic Journal, Vol. 114:493, pp. F22-F49(1). 2004.
  • A short summary from Finance and Development (2001)
    • Comment on this summary | Our response
    • Unpublished critique from Oxfam | Our response
• Institutions, Trade and Growth, with D. Dollar, Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. 2002.
  • Dataset (Excel format, 472kb)  |   Dataset (Zip file, 149kb)
• Trade Integration and Risk Sharing, with J. Ventura, European Economic Review. 2002.
• Institutions, Trade, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence, with D. Dollar, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3004. 2003.

• Government Spending Multipliers in Developing Countries: Evidence from Lending by Offical Creditors, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6099, 2012.
• How Large is the Government Spending Multiplier? Evidence from World Bank Lending, Quarterly Jounal of Economics, 2012.
• Does IDA Engage in Defensive Lending?, with Carolin Geginat, Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012.
• Good Countries or Good Projects? Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank Project Performance, with C. Denizer and D. Kaufmann, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5646. 2011.
• Who Gets Debt Relief?, with N. Chauvin, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 5:2-3, pp.333-342. 2007.
• What Has 100 Billion Dollars Worth of Debt Relief Done for Low Income Countries, with N. Chauvin, mimeo, The World Bank. 2005.
• When Is External Debt Sustainable? with V. Nehru, World Bank Economic Review. 2006.
• Poverty Traps, Aid, and Growth, with C. Raddatz, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 82:2, pp. 315-347. 2007.
• Aid, Growth, and Poverty, in The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid, P. Isard et. al. (eds.), Washington: International Monetary Fund. 2006.

• Sovereign Defaults and Expropriations : Empirical Regularities, with M. Eden and R. Qian, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6218. 2012.
• The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the US Current Account, with J. Ventura, NBER Conference Volume on Current Account Imbalances in G7 Countries, R. Clarida (ed.). Forthcoming.
• Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender : Does China's Zero Net Foreign Asset Position Make Economic Sense? with D. Dollar, Journal of Monetary Economics. 2006.
• Country Portfolios, with N. Loayza, L. Servén and J. Ventura, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3(4):914-945. June 2005.
• Current Accounts in the Long and Short Run, with J. Ventura, NBER Macro Annual. 2002.
• Do High Interest Rates Defend Currencies during Speculative Attacks? Journal of International Economics.  2002.
• Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries, with J. Ventura, Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2000.
  • Response to a recent critique of this paper forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics

• Instrumental Variables Regressions with Uncertain Exclusion Restrictions: A Bayesian Approach, Journal of Applied Econometrics.  Forthcoming.
  • Tabulation of the posterior distribution of the structural slope coefficient for various degrees of uncertaintly about the exclusion restriction
• Comparative Advantage and the Cross-Section of Business Cycles,  with J. Ventura, Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming.
• Product Quality, Productive Efficiency and International Technology Diffusion, with I. Soloaga and J. Tybout, in Global Integration and Technology Transfer, B. Hoekman and B. Javorcik, (eds.). 2006.
• Product Prices and the OECD Cycle, with J. Ventura, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Advances in Macroeconomics. 2002.
• Household Saving in China, World Bank Economic Review (2000).
• Exports and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Panel of Chinese Enterprises. Revue d’Economie du Dévelopement.  1999.
• Small States, Small Problems, with W. Easterly, World Development. 1999.
• Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially-Dependent Panel Data, with J. Driscoll, Review of Economics and Statistics. 1998.
• Growth Forecasts Using Time Series and Growth Models, with G. Monokroussos, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2224. 1998.
• In Search of the Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Account Liberalization. 1998.