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Unpublished Papers:

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“Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution”

“The Myth of the Frontier”

Endogenous Presidentialism∗

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

The Political Economy of Equality and Growth in Mexico: Lessons from the History of the United States

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

From Ancien Régime to Capitalism: The French Revolution as a Natural Experiment

When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia

Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

A Normal Latin American Country? A Perpsective on Colombian Development

A Response to Albouy's ‘A Reexamination Based on Improved Settler Mortality Data’

Debt Repudiation and Risk Premia: The North-Weingast Thesis Revisited

Are Endowments Fate?

When is State Predatory?

The Political Economy of Clientelism

Things I wrote for the World Bank:

In pdf format

“Good Crises? Implications for Developing Countries” (April 2009)

“Industrial Policy and Development: A Political Economy Perspective” (May 2009)

“Governance and Political Economy Constraints to World Bank CAS Priorities in Sierra Leone” (October 2008)

“The Political Economy of Decentralization in Bolivia”