Paul Collier: Research - Political Economy

Recent Papers

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The Political Economy of Natural Resources [Social Research, Vol 77, No 4, Winter 2010, pp1105]	Paul Collier	PDF file (244kB)
Violence, Bribery, and Fraud: The Political Economy of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa	Paul Collier and Pedro Vicente	PDF file (291kB)
Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse: Reconciling a Conundrum [previously CSAE Working Paper: CSAE WPS/2007-15, now revised for submission, V1-1]	Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis	PDF file (291kB)
Democracy’s Achilles Heel or, How to Win an Election without Really Trying. [CSAE Working Paper WPS/2009-08.]	Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler	PDF file (213kB)
Elections and Economic Policy in Developing Countries	Lisa Chauvet and Paul Collier	PDF file (175kB)
Does Aid Mitigate External Shocks? [accepted, Review of Development Economics ]	Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis	PDF file (229kB)
Structural Policies for Shock-Prone Commodity Exporters [CSAE Working Paper WPS/2009-03. Accepted, Oxford Economic Papers] Additional estimation results	Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis	PDF file (183kB)
Illusory Revenues: Tariffs in Resource-Rich and Aid-Rich Economies	Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables	PDF file (224kB)
Votes and Violence: Experimental Evidence from a Nigerian Election	Paul Collier and Pedro C. Vicente	PDF file (955kB)
Laws and Codes for the ‘Resource Curse’ [Yale Journal of Law and Human Rights]	Paul Collier	PDF file (87kB)
Savings and Investment Decisions in a Poor Oil Economy: Beyond the Textbook Case	Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning	PDF file (171kB)
Regional Coordination for Reduced Military Spending: Potential and Design	Paul Collier	PDF file (435kB)
Testing the Neocon Agenda: Democracy in Resource-Rich Societies	Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler	PDF file (189kB)
Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific	Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler	PDF file (119kB)
Beyond the Role of Victim: The Ethical Basis for International Concern about Africa. ['The Philosopher']	Paul Collier	PDF file (131kB)
International Political Economy: Some African Applications	Paul Collier	PDF file (28kB)
The complementarities of poverty reduction, equity and growth: a perspective on the World Development Report 2006 [Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006]	Paul Collier and Stefan Dercon	PDF file (118kB))
Why the WTO is deadlocked: and what can be done about it. [forthcoming in The World Economy, 2006]	Paul Collier	PDF file (286kB)
Alternatives to Godot: Inducing Turnarounds in Failing States	Lisa Chauvet and Paul Collier	PDF file (211kB)
Policy Turnarounds in Failing States	Lisa Chauvet and Paul Collier	PDF file (457kB)
Why the WTO is deadlocked: and what can be done about it	Paul Collier	PDF file (295kB)

Papers

Chapter 2 Paul Collier and Stephen A. O'Connell, "Opportunities and
Choices"
Chapter 11 Robert Bates and Paul Collier, with Anke Hoeffler and
Stephen A. O'Connell, "Endogenizing Syndromes"
Chapter 12 Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning, Benno J. Ndulu and
Stephen A. O'Connell, "Harnessing Growth Opportunities: How Africa Can Advance"

All in Benno J. Ndulu, Stephen A. O'Connell, Robert H. Bates, Paul Collier and
Charles C. Soludo, eds (2007a) The Political Economy of Economic Growth in
Africa, 1960-2000, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press), forthcoming.

Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler, ‘The political economy of secession’, in H. Hannum and E.F. Babbitt (eds), Negotiation Self-Determination, forthcoming 2005.

Collier, Paul , ‘The macroeconomic repercussions of external agricultural shocks and their implications for insurance’, in Stefan Dercon (ed), Insurance Against Poverty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Collier, P. , (with A. Bigsten et al.), ‘Developpement: L Malediction Petroliere’, Societal, Vol. 42, 2003.

Bigsten, Arne, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Bernard Gauthier, Jan Willem Gunning, Anders Isaksson, Abena Oduro, Remco Oostendorp, Cathy Patillo, Måns Söderbom, Francis Teal and Albert Zeufack, ‘Risk sharing in labor markets’, World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 17 (3), pp. 349-366, 2003.

Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler, ‘Über die Ökonomischen Ursachen von Bürgerkriegen’, in H. J. Albrecht and H. Entorf (eds), Kriminalität, Ökonomie und Europäischer Sozialstaat, pp. 241-270, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag, 2003.

Collier, Paul , ‘Social capital and poverty: A microeconomic perspective’, in Christiaan Grootaert and T. van Bastelaer (eds), The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Collier, Paul , David Dollar and Nicholas Stern, ‘Cinquante ans de développement économique: Bilan et expériences’, Revue d'Economie du Developpement, Vol. 1-2, 2001.

Collier, Paul and David Dollar, ‘Can the world cut poverty in half? How policy reform and effective aid can meet international development goals’, World Development, Vol. 29 (11), pp. 1787-1802, 2001.

Collier, Paul , ‘Ethnic diversity: An economic analysis’, Economic Policy, Vol. 32, 2001.

Collier, Paul , Anke Hoeffler and Catherine Pattillo, ‘Flight capital as a portfolio choice’, World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 15 (1), pp. 55-80, 2001.

Collier, Paul , ‘Ethnicity, politics and economic performance’, Economics and Politics, Vol. 12 (3), 2000.

Collier, Paul and Catherine Pattillo (eds), Investment and Risk in Africa, Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000.

Collier, Paul and Jan Willem Gunning, ‘Portfolio responses to trade policy incredibility’, in David L. Bevan, Paul Collier, Norman Gemmell and David Greenaway (eds), Trade and Fiscal Adjustment in Africa, pp. 262-272, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000.

Collier, Paul and Jan Willem Gunning, ‘The potential for restraint through international trade agreements’, in Paul Collier and Catherine Pattillo (eds), Investment and Risk in Africa, pp. 338-351, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000.

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