Daron Acemoglu

Publications

Systemic Credit Freezes in Financial Lending Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
James Siderius
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Mathematics and Financial Economics, 15, pp. 185–232.
July 2021

Optimal Tageted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group SIR Model
Daron Acemoglu
Victor Chernozhukov
Iván Werning
Michael D. Whinston
American Economic Review: Insights
December 2021

A Theory of Equality Before the Law
Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky
The Economic Journal, 131(636), pp. 1429–1465.
May 2021

Demograhics and Automation
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Review of Economic Studies
June 2021

The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik
Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(4), pp. 749-778.
December 2020

High-Quality Versus Low-Quality Growth in Turkey - Causes and Consequences
Daron Acemoglu
Murat Üçer
Published in Turkish Economy at the Crossroads
Edited by Asaf Savas Akat and Seyfettin Gursel, World Scientific Publishing Company, Inc., Hackensack, NJ.
November 2020

Population and Conflict
Daron Acemoglu
Leopoldo Fergusson
Simon Johnson
The Review of Economic Studies, (87)4, pp. 1565–1604.
July 2020

The Perils of High Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives
Daron Acemoglu
Leopoldo Fergusson
James Robinson
Dario Romero
Juan F. Vargask
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12(3), pp. 1-43.
August 2020

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
Daron Acemoglu
Ali Cheema
Asim I. Khwaja
James A. Robinson
Journal of Political Economy, 128(8), pp. 3090-3147.
August 2020

Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Political Economy, 128(6), pp. 2188–2244.
June 2020

Competing with Robots: Firm-Level Evidence from France
Daron Acemoglu
Claire LeLarge
Pascual Restrepo
AEA Papers and Proceedings, Volume 110, pp. 383-88.
May 2020

Unpacking Skill Bias: Automation and New Tasks
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
AEA Papers and Proceedings, Volume 110, pp. 356-61.
May 2020

Sustaining Cooperation: Community Enforcement versus Specialized Enforcement
Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky
Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(2), pp. 1078–1122.
April 2020

Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Daron Acemoglu
Giuseppe De Feo
Giacomo De Luca
Review of Economic Studies, 87(2), pp. 537–581.
March 2020

Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation?
Daron Acemoglu
Andrea Mandera
Pascual Restrepo
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2020(1), 231-300.
March 2020

Endogenous Production Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Pablo D. Azar
Econometrica, 88(1), pp. 33–82.
January, 2020

The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
November 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Work
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda
Edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019.

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 33(2), pp. 3-30.
Spring 2019

Online Appendix for Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 33(2), pp. 3-30.
Spring 2019

Democracy Does Cause Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Suresh Naidu
Pascual Restrepo
James A. Robinson
Journal of Political Economy, 127(1), pp. 47-100.
February 2019

Low-Skill and High-Skill Automation
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Journal of Human Capital, 12(2), pp. 204-232.
Summer 2018

Informational Braess Paradox: The Effect of Information on Traffic Congestion
Daron Acemoglu
Ali Makhdoumi
Azarakhsh Malekian
Asuman Ozdaglar
Operations Research, 66(4), pp. 893-1188.
August 2018

The Race Between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Review, 108(6), pp. 1488–1542.
June 2018

Modeling Automation
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 108, pp. 48-53.
May 2018

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
Nicholas Bloom
William Kerr
American Economic Review, 108(11), pp. 3450–3491.
November 2018

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2), pp. 1041–1105.
May 2018

The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypts Arab Spring
Daron Acemoglu
Tarek A. Hassan
Ahmed Tahoun
Review of Financial Studies, 31(1), pp. 1-42.
January 2018

Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Thierry Verdier
Journal of Political Economy, 125(5), pp. 1245-1303.
August 2017

Privacy-Constrained Network Formation
Daron Acemoglu
Ali Makhdoumi
Azarakhsh Malekian
Asuman Ozdaglar
Games and Economic Behavior, 105(2017), pp. 255–275.
August 2017

Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation
Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 107(5), pp. 174-79.
May 2017

Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws
Daron Acemoglu
Matthew O. Jackson
Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(2), pp. 245-295.
April 2017

Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
American Economic Review, 107(1), pp. 54–108.
January 2017

Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Published in Economic History of Warfare and State Formation
Edited by Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, Nikolaus Wolf, Springer New York, 2016.

Innovation Network
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
William Kerr
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(41), pp. 11483–11488.
October 11, 2016

Network Security and Contagion
Daron Acemoglu
Azarakhsh Malekian
Asu Ozdaglar
Journal of Economic Theory, 166 (2016), pp. 536–585.
October 2016

The Value of Connections in Turbulent Times: Evidence from the United States
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Amir Kermani
James Kwak
Todd Mitton
Journal of Financial Economics, 121(2), pp, 368-391.
August 2016

Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
William Kerr
Published in NBER Macroeconomics Annual
Edited by Martin Eichenbaum and Jonathan Parker, 30(2016), pp. 276 - 335.
July 2016

Networks, Shocks, and Systemic Risk
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Handbook of Network Economics. Edited by Yann Bramoullé, Andrea Galeotti, and Brian Rogers, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2016.
June 2016

State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century
Daron Acemoglu
Jacob Moscona
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, 106(5), pp. 61-67.
May 2016

Transition to Clean Technology
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
Douglas Hanley
William Kerr
Journal of Political Economy, 124(1), pp. 52-104.
February 2016

Fragility of Asymptotic Agreement under Bayesian Learning
Daron Acemoglu
Victor Chernozhukov
Muhamet Yildiz
Theoretical Economics, 11(1), pp. 187–225.
January 2016

Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Brendan Price
Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1), pp. S141-S198.
January 2016

The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015: Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide
Daron Acemoglu
Murat Ucer
Published in The Search for Europe: Contrasting Approaches
BBVA OpenMind Press, 2016.

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(1), pp. 3–28.
Winter 2015

Political Economy in a Changing World
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Journal of Political Economy, 123(5), pp. 1038-1086.
October 2015

State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Daron Acemoglu
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review 105(8), pp. 2364-2409.
July 2015

Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu
Gino Gancia
Fabrizio Zilibotti
American Economic Journal: Macro, 7(3), pp. 84–122.
July 2015

Robust Comparative Statics in Large Dynamic Economies
Daron Acemoglu
Martin Kaae Jensen
Journal of Political Economy, 123(3), pp. 587-640.
June 2015

Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Daron Acemoglu
Dan Cao
Journal of Economic Theory, 157, pp. 255–294.
May 2015

Localised and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
Daron Acemoglu
Economic Journal, 125(583), pp. 443–463.
March 2015

Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
American Economic Review, 105(2), pp. 564–608.
February 2015

History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
Daron Acemoglu
Matthew O. Jackson
Review of Economic Studies, 82(1), pp. 1-34.
January 2015

Disease and Development - A Reply to Bloom, Canning and Fink
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
Journal of Political Economy, 122(6), pp. 1367-1375.
December 2014

Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Daron Acemoglu
Suresh Naidu
Pascual Restrepo
James A. Robinson
Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2, pp. 1885-1966.
December 2014

Search with Multi-Worker Firms
Daron Acemoglu
William Hawkins
Theoretical Economics, 9(3), pp. 583–628.
September 2014

Chiefs: Economic Developement and Elite Control of Civil Soceity in Sierra Leone
Daron Acemoglu
Tristan Reed
James A. Robinsonx
Journal of Political Economy, 122 (2), pp. 319-368.
April 2014

Chiefs - Economic Developement and Elite Control of Civil Soceity in Sierra Leone ONLINE APPENDIX
Daron Acemoglu
Tristan Reed
James A. Robinsonx
April 2014

Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model
Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky
American Economic Review, 104(4), pp. 1350-67.
April 2014

Institutions, Human Capital and Development
Daron Acemoglu
Francisco A. Gallego
James A. Robinson
Annual Reviews of Economics, 6, pp. 875–912.
January 2014

Return of the Solow Paradox: IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing
Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Brendan Price
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 104(5), pp. 394–399.
January 2014

Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Daron Acemoglu
David Laibson
John A. List
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 104(5), pp. 523–527.
January 2014

The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
Daron Acemoglu
Published in In One Hundred Years: Economists Predict the Future
Edited by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014.

Dynamics of Information Exchange in Endogenous Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Kostas Bimpikis
Asuman Ozdaglar
Theoretical Economics, Theoretical Economics, 9(1), 2014, pp. 41-97.
January 2014

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks
Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(4), pp. 1079-1095.
October 2013

Aggregate Comparative Statics
Daron Acemoglu
Martin Kaae Jensen
Games and Economic Behavior, 81(2013), 27-49
September 2013

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik
Review of Economic Studies, 80 (3), pp. 845-875.
July 2013

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness (Online Appendix)
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik
(Online only - not for publication)

Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(2), pp. 173-192.
Spring 2013

A Political Theory of Populism
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2), pp. 771-805.
May 2013

Opinion Fluctuations and Disagreement in Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Giacomo Como
Fabio Fagnani
Asuman Ozdaglar
Mathematics of Operations Research, 38(1), pp. 1-27.
February 2013

The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Rafael J. Santos-Villagran
Journal of the European Economic Association, 11(s1), pp 5–44.
January 2013

The Consequences of Radical Reform - The French Revolution
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Cantoni
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
American Economic Review, 101(7), pp. 3286–3307.
December 2012

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution ONLINE APPENDIX
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Cantoni
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Online only, not for publication.
December 2011

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
Daron Acemoglu
Camilo García-Jimeno
James A. Robinson
Journal of Comparative Economics, 40(4), pp. 534-564.
November 2012

Diversity and Technological Progress
Daron Acemoglu
Published in The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, Univeristy of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2012, pp. 319-360.

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
(Previous title: Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment)
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
American Economic Review, 102(6), pp. 3077–3110.
October 2012

Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: Reply
(Previous title: Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment)
Online Appendices and Appendix Tables
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
October 2012

The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
Daron Acemoglu
Vasco M. Carvalho
Asuman Ozdaglar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Econometrica, 80(5), pp. 1977-2016.
September 2012

Social Structure and Development - A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
Daron Acemoglu
Tarek A. Hassan
James A. Robinson
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(2), pp. 895-946.
August 2012

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
Journal of Economic Literature, 50(2), pp. 426–463.
June 2012

Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
American Economic Review, 102(4), pp. 1446–1476.
June 2012

Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization
Daron Acemoglu
Gino Gancia
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Journal of Economic Theory, 147(2), pp. 570–601.
March 2012

The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Leonardo Bursztyn
David Hemous
American Economic Review, 102(1), pp. 131–166.
February 2012

A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Pierre Yared
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (1), pp. 283-331.
February 2012

Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition and Innovation
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(1), pp. 1-42.
February 2012

Online Appendix for Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition and Innovation
Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
February 2012

A Political Model of Social Evolution
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (supplement 4), pp. 21292–21296.
December 2011

Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8), pp. 467-475.
August 2011

Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
Handbook of Labor Economics, 4(B), pp. 1043-1171.
2011

Power Fluctuations and Political Economy
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Journal of Economic Theory, 146(3), pp. 1009–1041.
May 2011

Persistence of Civil Wars
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
Journal of the European Economic Association, 8(2-3), pp. 664-676.
April-May 2011

Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Munzer A. Dahleh
Ilan Lobel
Asuman Ozdaglar
Review of Economic Studies, 78(4), pp.1201-1236.
March 2011

Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
Journal of European Economic Association, 9(2), pp. 177-208.
April 2011

Opinion Dynamics and Learning in Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
Dynamic Games and Applications, 1(1), pp. 3-49.
October 2010

Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Rachel Griffith
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Journal of European Economic Association, 8(5), pp. 989-1033.
September 2010

Why is Africa Poor?
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Economic History of Developing Regions, 25(1), pp. 21-50.
June 2010

The Economics of Labor Coercion
Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky
Econometrica, 79(2), pp. 555-600
March 2011

The Economics of Labor Coercion Appendix B: Multiple Output Levels
Daron Acemoglu
Alexander Wolitzky
Econometrica, 79(2), pp. 555-600
March 2011

Experimentation, Patents and Innovation
Daron Acemoglu
Kostas Bimpikis
Asuman Ozdaglar
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 3(1), pp. 37-77.
February 2011

When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Political Economy, 118(6), pp. 1037-1078.
December 2010

Spread of (Mis)Information in Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar
Ali ParandehGheibi
Games and Economic Behavior, 70(2), pp. 194-227.
November 2010

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(4), pp. 1511-1576.
November 2010

Theory, General Equilibrium, Political Economy and Empirics in Development Economics
Daron Acemoglu
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3), pp. 17-32.
Summer 2010

Dynamic Mirrless Taxation Under Political Economy Contraints
Daron Acemoglu
Michael Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
January 2009
Review of Economic Studies, 77(3), pp. 841-881.
July 2010

Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?
Daron Acemoglu
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 100(2), pp. 115-119.
May 2010

Political Limits to Globalization
Daron Acemoglu
Pierre Yared
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 100(2), pp. 83-88.
May 2010

A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(1), pp. 1-42.
January 2010

Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
Daron Acemoglu
Melissa Dell
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(1), pp. 169–188.
January 2010

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared
Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(8), pp. 1043–1058.
November 2009

Foundations of Societal 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
October 2009

Price and Capacity Competition
Daron Acemoglu
Kostas Bimpikis
Asuman Ozdaglar
Games and Economic Behavior, 66 (2009), pp. 1–26.
May 2009

Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule?
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 99, pp. 298-303.
May 2009

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

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 2008

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.

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.
Spring 2008

Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies
Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin
Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), pp. 987-1009
February 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 Nonbalanced 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 24(2), pp. 273-306.
October 2008

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 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, pp. 341-380.
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

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

Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Daron Acemoglu
The Economic Journal, 113 (F121–F149).
February 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

How Large Are Human Capital Externalities Evidence? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, pp. 9-59.
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, Inequlaity and Growth in Historical Perpective
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

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