Research Curriculum Vitae Publications Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs (with Jason A. Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, and Michael D. Makowsky) Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming Printing and Protestants: an empirical test of the role of printing in the Reformation Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy, Revolt, and Technology Change in the Ottoman Empire (with Metin M. Coşgel and Thomas J. Miceli) Journal of Comparative Economics (2012), 40(3): 357-371 Political Legitimacy and Technology Adoption (with Metin M. Coşgel and Thomas J. Miceli) Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2012), 168(3): 339-361 Institutions, the Rise of Commerce, and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam & Christianity Economic Journal (2011), 121(557): 1310-1339 (JSTOR Access) Press: VoxEU; Foreign Policy; podcast on "Research on Religion" Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals (with Laurence R. Iannaccone and Colleen E. Haight) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2011), 77(3): 326-338 Reading, Writing, and Religion: Institutions and Human Capital Formation (with Latika Chaudhary) Journal of Comparative Economics (2011), 39(1): 17-33 (Appendix: Model) Bills of Exchange, Interest Bans, and Impersonal Exchange in Islam and Christianity Explorations in Economic History (2010), 47(2): 213-227 Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity Journal of Law & Economics (2009), 52(4): 761-777 (JSTOR Access) (Appendix of Proofs) Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation (with Paul A. David) Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues (2008), 5(1): 23-53 The Lender’s Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity Dissertation Summary, Journal of Economic History (2008), 68(2): 575-579 Working and Submitted Papers Centralized Institutions and Cascades Centralized Institutions and Revolutions: An Agent-Based Approach (with Michael D. Makowsky) Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks (with Roman Sheremeta) Sustaining Group Reputation (with Erik O. Kimbrough) Commitment Problems in Conflict Resolution (with Erik O. Kimbrough, Roman Sheremeta, and Timothy Shields) Book (in Progress) God, Power, and Printing: The Roots of Economic Success and Stagnation in Europe and the Middle East Under contract with Cambridge University Press Works in Progress Institutions and Literacy in the Princely States (with Latika Chaudhary) Indefinitely Renewable Copyright? (with Paul A. David) The Reformation, Political Legitimacy and the Origin of the Modern Economy in England (with Avner Greif) Quantity vs. Quality (with Anya Samak and Roman Sheremeta) Skill, Effort, and Luck in Principal-Agent Settings (with Roman Sheremeta) Other Publications Islamic Institutions and Underdevelopment The Oxford Handbook of Islam and the Economy (edited by M. Kabir Hassan and Mervyn K. Lewis), Oxford University Press: forthcoming Timur Kuran’s Framework and Economic Underdevelopment in the Islamic World The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations (edited by Joshua Hall), Beloit University Press, 2013 Trade and Commerce Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (edited by Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J. Stuart, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman), Princeton University Press, pp. 552-554, 2012 Bills of Exchange, Financial Networks, and Quasi-Impersonal Exchange in Western Europe and the Middle East Union in Separation: Diasporic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1900) (edited by G. Christ, S. Burkhardt, R. Zaugg, A.D. Beihammer, and F.J. Morche), Springer, 2012 How Many Scanned Books on the Web?, with Paul A. David SIEPR Policy Brief, Stanford University, December 2008 Book Reviews EH.Net Review: Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World, February 3, 2011 EH.Net Review: M. Umer Chapra’s Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform, June 16, 2008 Permanent Working Papers Centralized Institutions and Sudden Change, 2010 ** This working paper is an early version of “Centralized Institutions...”. It contains a discussion of the post-election protests in Iran 2009 which I have taken out in subsequent versions Printing and Interest Restrictions in Islam & Christianity: An Economic Theory of Inhibitive Law Persistence, 2008 ** This working paper is an early version of “Institutions, the Rise of Commerce, and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam & Christianity”. It is cited in “Institutions, the Rise of Commerce…” |