Edited Books

• NEW INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR edited with János Kornai and László Mátyás, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Introduction .
• NEW THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION. THE FIFTH NOBEL SYMPOSIUM IN ECONOMICS edited with Erik Berglöf, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Introduction.

Working Papers

• NEW What makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Evidence from Brazil. with S. Djankov, Y.Qian and E. Zhuravskaya, January 2008.
• NEW Economic Theory and Transition: What Lessons from North Korea? Keynote lecture NAIS conference February 21, 2008.
• NEW Transposable and non transposable lessons from the transition experience. Keynote lecture for the conference "Experience of Transition Economics and Implications for North Korea", Seoul National University January 18 2008.
• The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam with E. Miguel, revised December 2007.
• Optimal Debt Design and the Role of Bankruptcy, with E. Berglöf and E.-Lu. von Thadden, revised July 2007.
• Banking Passivity and Regulatory Failure in Emerging Markets: Theory and Evidence from the Czech Republic, with J. Hanousek, revised November 2007.

• NEW Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies with T. Persson and G. Tabellini, Quartely Journal of Political Science 2007.
• NEW Europe's Constitutional Imbroglio in The European Economy in an American Mirror, edited by B. Eichengreen, M. Landesmann and D. Stiefel, Routledge New York, 445-457 2008.
• Coordination and Experimentation in M-form and U-form Organizations, with Y.Qian and C. Xu, Journal of Political Economy, 2006.
• Who are China's Entrepreneurs ? , with S. Djankov, Y. Qian and E. Zhuravskaya, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 2006.
• The Russian economy in the year 2005 Post-Soviet Affairs 2006.
• Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared with S. Djankov, Y. Qian and E. Zhuravskaya, Journal of the European Economic Association forthcoming 2006.
• Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament with S. Hix and A. Noury, American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming 2006.[Web appendix].
• After Enlargement: Institutional Achievements and Prospects in the New Member States Proceedings of The third ECB conference "The New EU Member States: Convergence and Stability", forthcoming 2005.
• Who are Russia's Entrepreneurs? with S. Djankov, E. Miguel, Y. Qian and E. Zhuravskaya, Journal of the European Economic Association 2005.
• A 'Normal' Parliament? Party Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001, with S. Hix and A. Noury, British Journal of Political Science 2005.
• In Praise of the European Constitution ,in Designing the New EUropean Union edited by H. Berger and T. Moutos, MIT Press forthcoming 2005.
• Understanding Institutional Change: Fast-Moving and Slow-Moving Institutions, Studies in Comparative International Development, 2004.
• Colombia's Electoral and Party System: Proposals for Reform with J. Gonzalo Zapata, in Institutional Reforms in Colombia edited by A. Alesina, MIT Press 2004.
• How to Choose the European Executive: A Counterfactual Analysis, 1979-1999, with S. Hix and A. Noury, in in Blankart, C. and D.C. Mueller A Constitution for the European Union, MIT Press 2004.
• Enlargement and the European Parliament, with A. Noury, in N. Campos and J. Fidrmuc (eds.), Political Economy of Transition: Institutions, Politics and Policies, Kluwer, 2003.
• Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint, with J. Kornai and E. Maskin, Journal of Economic Literature, 2003.
• Law Enforcement and Transition, with Thierry Verdier, European Economic Review, 2003.
• More Power to the European Parliament?, with Abdul Noury, Economic Policy, 2002. [Web Appendix]
• The Political Economy of Transition, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002.
• Corporate Governance and Restructuring: Lessons from Transition Economies, World Bank Conference, 2001.
• Soft Budget Constraints, Transition and Financial Systems, with M. Dewatripont, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2000.
• Comparative Politics and Public Finance, with T. Persson and G. Tabellini, Journal of Political Economy, 2000.
• Reform without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition, with L. Lau and Y. Qian, Journal of Political Economy, 2000.
• Managerial Career Concerns, Privatization and Restructuring in Transition Economies, with K. Sekkat, European Economic Review, 2000.

Economics 215A, Political Economy, Spring 2006
Economics 260A, Comparative Economics, Fall 2005
Economics 260A, Economics of Transition, Fall 2003
Economics 161, Transition Economics - Europe, Fall 2004
Economics 260A, Economics of Transition, Fall 2003
Economics 161, Transition Economics -Europe (with lecture slides), Fall 2003
Economics 261, Comparative Economics Seminar, Fall 2005