Singapore Management University

School of Economics

This is a list of my papers.

Research

“Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks” (with Stephen Leider, Markus Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat, Harvard University and Iowa State University), forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics (previously part of NBER Working Paper W13135; earlier version circulated under the title “Social Capital in Social Networks”). Paper presented at: 2004 Econometric Society Summer meetings, 2004 SITE Conference on Experimental Economics, Max Planck Institute Ringberg Workshop on Social Networks, 2006 North American Economic Science Association meetings, Boston University, New York University, University of Connecticut, Texas A&M, Columbia University, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Michigan, Fulbright Economics Teaching Program.

 

“What Do We Expect From Our Friends?” (with Stephen Leider, Markus Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat, Harvard University and Iowa State University), forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (previously part of NBER Working Paper W13135). Paper presented at: 2004 Econometric Society Summer meetings, 2004 SITE Conference on Experimental Economics, Max Planck Institute Ringberg Workshop on Social Networks, 2006 North American Economic Science meetings, Boston University, New York University, University of Connecticut, Texas A&M, Columbia University, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Michigan, Fulbright Economics Teaching Program.

 

“Instability and the Incentives for Corruption” (with Filipe R. Campante and Davin Chor, Harvard University), forthcoming in Economics and Politics. Paper presented at: the 10th Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Geneva), the NBER Political Economics Student Conference (Cambridge, MA), the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society (London), the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (Amsterdam). (Supplementary Appendix)

Publications:

“A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities” (with Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University), December 2008. Paper presented at: GRIPS Tokyo, University of Oslo, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris School of Economics, University of Lausanne, Houston University, Clemson University, Singapore Management University, American Economic Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco), Far East Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore), Workshop on Conflicts and Inequality (PRIO, Oslo).

            

“Keeping Dictators Honest: the Role of Population Concentration” (with Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University), April 2008. Paper presented at: GRIPS Tokyo, University of Oslo, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris School of Economics, University of Lausanne, Houston University, Clemson University, Singapore Management University, American Economic Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco), Far East Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore), Workshop on Conflicts and Inequality (PRIO, Oslo).

 

“Inequality, Redistribution and Population” (with Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University), July 2007. Paper presented at: American Association of Law and Economics Conference, Association for Public EconomicTheory Conference, NBER Political Economics Student Conference.

 

“Corruption, Delays and the Pattern of Trade” (with Karine Serfaty de Medeiros, Harvard University), May 2008.

 

Working Papers:

“Redistribution and Population Size in China” (with Filipe R. Campante and Li Han, Harvard University and Stanford University & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

 

Work in Progress: