Publications

Foundations of Social Inequality
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Science, October 2009,  326(5953, pp. 678-679

(alternate access)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/326/5953/678.pdf

Price and Capacity Competition
Daron Acemoglu
Kostas Bimpikis
Asuman Ozdaglar
forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior

When Does Policy Reform Work - The Case of Central Bank Independence
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Pablo Querubin
James A. Robinson
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008(1), pp. 351-418.

A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Dynamic Mirrless Taxation Under Political Economy Contraints
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
January 2009
forthcoming, Review Economic Studies

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared
forthcoming, Journal of Monetary Economics

Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule?
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 99, pp. 298-303.

Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
forthcoming, Journal of European Economic Association

Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
Daron Acemoglu
Melissa Dell
forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Rachel Griffith
Fabrizio Zilibotti
forthcoming, Journal of European Economic Association

Determinants of Vertical Integration: Financial Development and Contracting Costs
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Todd Mitton
The Journal of Finance, 63(3), pp. 1251-1290
June 2009

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
Daron Acemoglu
Maria Angelica Bautista
Pablo Querubin
James A. Robinson
Published in Institutions and Economic Performance
Edited by Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008.

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries - Evidence from the Health Care Sector
Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Journal of Political Economy, 116(5) pp. 837–880
October 2008

Coalition Formation in Nondemocracies
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), pp. 987-1009
October 2008

Income and Democracy
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared
American Economic Review, 98(3), pp. 808-42.
June 2008

Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Veronica Guerrieri
August 2007
Journal of Political Economy, 116(3), pp. 467-498.
June 2008

Local Indices for Degenerate Variational Inequalities
Alp Simsek
Asuman Ozdaglar
Daron Acemoglu
Mathematics of Operations Research, 33(2), pp. 291-300.
May 2008

Political Economy of Mechanisms
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Econometrica, 76(3), pp. 619-641.
May 2008

Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, 98(1), pp. 267-93.
March 2008

Oligarchic vs. Democratic Societies
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of the European Economic Association 6, pp. 1-44.
March 2008

Markets Versus Governments
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Journal of Monetary Economics 55(1), pp. 159-189.
January 2008

Incentives in Markets, Firms and Government
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Kremer
Atif Mian
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
December 2007

Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy 115, pp. 925-985.
December 2007

Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth Appendices B and C
(Not for publication)
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
December 2007

On the Stability of P-Matrices
A. Kevin Tang
Alp Simsek
Asuman Ozdaglar
Daron Acemoglu
Linear Algebra and Applications 426, pp. 22-32.
October 2007

Competition in Parallel-Serial Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
IEEE Journal of Special Areas of Communication, Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking 25, pp. 1180-1192.
August 2007

Partially Optimal Routing
Daron Acemoglu
Ramesh Johari
Asuman Ozdaglar
IEEE Journal of Special Areas of Communication, Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking 25, pp. 1148-1160.
August 2007

Competition and Efficiency in Congested Markets
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman E. Ozdaglar
Mathematics of Operations Research 32, pp. 1-31.
February 2007

Generalized Poincare-Hopf Theorem for Compact Nonsmooth Regions
Alp Simsek
Asuman E. Ozdaglar
Daron Acemoglu
Mathematics of Operations Research 32, 193-214.
February 2007

Equilibrium Bias of Technology
Daron Acemoglu
Econometrica 175, pp. 1371-1410.
September 2007

Contracts and Technology Adoption
Daron Acemoglu
Pol Antràs
Elhanan Helpman
American Economic Review 97(3), pp. 916-943.
June 2007

Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Claire Lelarge
John Van Reenan
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(4), pp. 1759–1799.
November 2007

Appendix to Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Claire Lelarge
John Van Reenan
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(4), 1759–1799.
November 2007

A Simple Model of Inefficient Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108(4), pp. 515-546.
December 2006

De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 96(2), pp. 325-330.
May 2006

Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Daron Acemoglu
David Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Joshua Linn
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 96(2), 103-107.
May 2006

Modeling Inefficient Economic Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
Published in Advances in Economic Thoery, Proceedings of 2005 World Congress
Edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2006.

Efficiency and Braess' Paradox under Pricing in General Networks
Xin Huang
Asuman E. Ozdaglar
Daron Acemoglu
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue on Economics and Access-based Pricing in Communication Networks 24(5), pp. 977-991.
May 2006

Price Competition in Communication Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman E. Ozdaglar
IEEE Infocom 2006, pp. 1-12.
April 2006

Competition in Parallel-Serial Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
IEEE Journal of Special Areas of Communication, Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking, 25, pp. 1180-1192.
March 2006

Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Journal of the European Economic Association, 4(1), pp. 37-74
March 2006

Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Political Science Review 100, pp. 115-131.
February 2006

Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Monetary Economics, Swiss National Bank Special Issue, 52, pp. 1199-1226.
December 2005

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Published in Handbook of Economic Growth
Edited by Philippe Aghion and Stephen Durlauf, Elsevier, North Holland, 2005.

Constitutions, Politics and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effects of Constitutions"
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Literature, 43(4). pp. 1025-1048.
December 2005

Unbundling Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy, 113(5), pp. 949-995.
October 2005

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, 95(3), pp. 546-579.
June 2005

From Education to Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared
American Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings,  95(2), pp. 44-49.
May 2005

Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Linn
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(3), pp. 1049–1090.
August 2004

Women, War and Wages: the Effect of Female Labor Supply on Labor Market Outcomes
Daron Acemoglu
David H. Author
David Lyle
Journal of Political Economics, 112, pp. 497-551.
June 2004

Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule (The Alfred Marshall Lecture)
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Thierry Verdier
Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 2, pp. 162-192.
April 2004

The Marginal User Principle for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman E. Ozdaglar
R. Srikant
Proceedings of the 2004 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2, pp. 1544-1549.
December 2004

Why Not a Political Coase Theorem? Social Conflict, Commitment and Politics
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Comparative Economics, 31, pp. 620-652.
December 2003

Disease and Development in Historical Perspective
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 1(2-3), pp. 397-405.
April–May 2003

Patterns of Skill Premia
Daron Acemoglu
Review of Economic Studies, 70, pp. 199-230.
April 2003

Labor- and Capital-Augmenting Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of European Economic Association, 1, pp. 1-37.
March 2003

An African Success Story: Botswana
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Published in In Search of Prosperity: Analytical Narrative on Economic Growth.
Edited by Dani Rodrik, Princeton University Press, 2003.

Factor Prices and Technical Change: from Induced Innovations to Recent Debates
Daron Acemoglu
Published in Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund Phelps.
Edited by Philippe Aghion et al, Princeton University Press, 2003.

The Labor Market and Corporate Structure
Daron Acemoglu
Andrew Newman
European Economic Review, 46, pp. 1733-1756.
December 2002

Institutional Causes, Macroeeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Yunyong Thaicharoen
Journal of Monetary Economics, 50, pp. 49-123.
January 2003

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, pp. 1231-1294.
November 2002

Directed Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu
Review of Economic Studies, 69. pp. 781-810.
October 2002

The World Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu
Jaume Ventura
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, pp 659-694.
May 2002

Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Literature, 40, pp. 7-72.
March 2002

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Simon Johnson
American Economic Review, 91, pp. 1369-1401.
December 2001

Inefficient Redistribution
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Political Science Review, 95, pp. 649-661.
September 2001

A Theory of Political Transitions
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, 91, pp 938-963.
September 2001

Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist
Journal of Political Economy, 109, pp 915-957.
October 2001

Deunionization, Technical Change, and Inequality
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Gianluca Violante
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 55(1) , pp. 229-264.
December 2001

Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment
Daron Acemoglu
European Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 45(4-6), pp. 665-679.
May 2001

Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
European Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 45, pp. 890-904.
April 2001

Productivity Differences
Daron Acemoglu
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, pp. 563-606.
May 2001

Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Labor Economics, 19, pp. 1-22.
January 2001

Wage and Technology Dispersion
Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer
Review of Economic Studies, 67, pp. 585-608.
October 2000

Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115, pp. 1167-1199.
November 2000

Political Losers As a Barrier to Economic Development
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 90, pp. 126-130.
May 2000

How Large Are Human Capital Externalities Evidence? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, pp. 9-59.
2000

The Choice between Market Failures and Corruption
Daron Acemoglu
Thierry Verdier
American Economic Review, 90(1), pp. 194-211.
March 2000

Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance
Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer
European Economics Review,  44, pp. 1195-1224.
June 2000

Democratization or Repression?
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
European Economics Review, Papers and Proceedings, 44, 683-693
April 2000

Certification of Training and Training Outcomes
Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
European Economics Review, Papers and Proceedings, 44, pp. 917-927.
April 2000

Efficient Unemployment Insurance
Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer
Journal of Political Economy, 107, pp. 893-928.
October 1999

Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence
Daron Acemoglu
American Economic Review, 89, pp. 1259-1278.
December 1999

Holdups and Efficieny Search Frictions
Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer
International Economic Review, 40, pp. 827-850.
November 1999

The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Jounal of Political Economy, 107, pp. 539-572.
June 1999

Information Accumulation in Development
Daron Acemoglu
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Journal of Economic Growth, 4, pp. 5-38.
March 1999

Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labour Markets
Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Economic Journal, 109, pp. 112-142.
February 1999

Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality
Daron Acemoglu
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, pp. 1055-1089.
November 1998

Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach
Daron Acemoglu
Thierry Verdier
Economic Journal, 108, pp. 1381-1403.
September 1998

Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence
Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113, pp. 79-119.
February 1998

Credit Market Imperfections and Separation of Ownership from Control
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Theory, 78, pp. 355-381.
February 1998

Asymmetric Business Cycles: Theory and Time Series Evidence
Daron Acemoglu
Andrew Scott
Journal of Monetary Economics, 40, pp. 501-522.
December 1997

Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Journal of Political Economy, 105, pp. 709-751.
August 1997

Training and Innovation in an Imperfect Labour Market
Daron Acemoglu
Review of Economic Studies, 64, pp. 445-464.
July 1997

Matching, Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Income Distribution
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Growth, 2, pp. 61-92.
March 1997

A Microfoundation for Social Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation
Daron Acemoglu
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111, pp. 779-804.
August 1996

Asymmetric Information, Bargaining, and Unemployment Fluctuations
Daron Acemoglu
International Economic Review, 36, pp. 1003-1024.
November 1995

Reward Structures and Allocation of Talent
Daron Acemoglu
European Economic Review, 39, pp. 17-33.
January 1995