Recent Publications, Visitors, Grants and Awards.

WELCOME TO NEW VISITORS

Professor Sharun Mukand, Tufts University - Michaelmas Term 2005

NEW APPOINTMENTS

GRANTS

A team of researchers at EOPP has been awarded a grant by the EU to conduct research on the conceptualisation, modelling and measurement of polarization and conflict. This is a large project that will coordinate the efforts of many researchers worldwide and will be developed jointly by a number of European institutions under the direction of prof. Joan Esteban of the Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona). This research will be multi-disciplinary and will bring together the views of intellectual traditions that have developed quite independently in different disciplines in the social sciences. A central characteristic will be the close interplay between formal modelling and data collection and analysis. The members of the LSE team are David Stasavage (coordinator), Oriana Bandiera, Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, Valentino Larcinese and Andrea Prat.

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Tim Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak have been awarded a Large Grant by the ESRC for their project "Competition and Incentives in Public Service Provision" 2004-06.

Oriana Bandiera has been awarded a buy-out Grant by the ESRC for her project "Incentives, Social Preferences and Workers' Productivity: New Empirical Evidence" 2005-06.

AWARDS

Tim Besley has been awarded the Duncan Black Prize 2004 (jointly with Stephen Coate of Yale University) for best paper published in the journal Public Choice in 2003, On the Public Choice Critique of Welfare Economics.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Oriana Bandiera's papers:

'Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data' with Imran Rasul and Iwan Barankay. Quarterly Journal of Economics August 2005
'The Evolution of Cooperative Norms: Evidence from a Field Experiment' with Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul in Advances to Economic Analysis & Policy, special issue on Field Experiments John A. List (ed), December 2005
'Social Networks and the Adoption of New Technology in Northern Mozambique' with Imran Rasul. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 3341. forthcoming Economic Journal 2006

Tim Besley and Robin Burgess' paper 'Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance: Evidence from India' was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol 119(1) 2004

Robin Burgess' paper 'Can Rural Banks Reduce Poverty? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment' (with Rohini Pande) is forthcoming in the American Economic Review.

Maitreesh Ghatak's 'Eviction Threats and Investment Incentives' (with Abhijit Banerjee) has been published in the Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 74, No.2, 2004.
"Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect: A Note" (with S. Gangopadhyay and R. Lensink) is forthcoming in the Economic Journal.

Valentino Larcinese's papers: 'Allocating the US Federal Budget to the States: the Impact of the President' (with Leo Rizzo and Cecilia Testa) is forthcoming on the Journal of Politics (May 2006 issue).
'Electoral Competition and Redistribution with Rationally Informed Voters' has been published in Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy , vol. 4, n. 1, art. 4.

EOPP PEOPLE VISITING OTHER INSTITUTATIONS

Valentino Larcinese is a visiting scholar in the political science department at MIT during the 2005-06 academic year.