{"id":17,"date":"2015-11-19T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:28:16","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Research<\/h2>\n<p>Working Papers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2026\/01\/Revolving_Door-15.pdf\">Revolving Door Laws and Political Selection<\/a> (with Jetson Leder-Luis, Catherine O\u2019Donnell, and Silvia Vannutelli), 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/11\/Pakistan_1104.pdf\">The Policy Preferences of Senior Civil Servants<\/a> (with Shaheen Naseer, Sultan Mehmood, and Shachar Kariv), 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/10\/Strategic_capture.pdf\">Strategic Capture of Monitors: Evidence from Pollution Control in China<\/a> (with Naide Ye and Yongxiang Wang), 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/Tiktok_submission.pdf\">Political Persuasion in the Information Age: Results from a Field Experiment<\/a> (with Yiying Li and Meng Miao), 2025.<span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/Poverty_Alleviation_post.pdf\">The Economic Benefits of Mixed Decentralization: Evidence from China\u2019s First Secretary Program<\/a> (with Jiangze Du, Arko Sarkar, Chao Yang, and Jian Zhang), 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/paper_and_apps.pdf\">Strong Support, Weak Policies: Views on Corruption of Citizens and Legislators in Three Countries<\/a> (with Matteo Ferroni and Miriam Golden), 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/12\/Measuring_Government_Openness_Through_Freedom_of_Information_Requests_24_11_2023_Full-29.pdf\">Electoral Incentives and Government Transparency: Evidence from Freedom of Information Requests<\/a> (with Aron Malatinszky and Eyub Yegen), 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/12\/Measuring_Government_Openness_Through_Freedom_of_Information_Requests_24_11_2023_Full-30.pdf\">Appendix material<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"XqQF9c\" href=\"https:\/\/users.nber.org\/~kesslerj\/papers\/Exley_etal_ConcealmentGap_Oct2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"C9DxTc aw5Odc \">Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gap<\/span><\/a> (with Christine Exley, <span>Judd Kessler Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar), 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refereed Publications<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/BBFTY_posting.pdf\">Investing in Influence: Investors, portfolio firms, and political giving<\/a> (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Francesco Trebbi, and Eyub Yegen), forthcoming, <em>Review of Economic Studies<\/em>, 2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2024\/01\/Pollution_Monitoring-36.pdf\">Dirty Air, Clean Investment: The impact of pollution information on ESG investment<\/a> (with Pulak Ghosh, Arko Sarkar, and Jian Zhang), forthcoming, <em>Journal of Financial Economics<\/em> 2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w32414\">The costs and benefits of clan culture: Elite control versus cooperation in China<\/a> (with Shuo Chen, Xiaohuan Lan, Yongxiang Wang and Qing Ye), <em>Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization<\/em>, 2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/Donbass_final.pdf\">The Undoing of Economic Sanctions: Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict<\/a> (with Giovanna Marcolongo and Meng Wu), <em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2024\/01\/Elite_Capture_JPEMi_Revision-6.pdf\">Whose preferences matter for redistribution: Cross-country evidence<\/a> (with Alain Cohn, Michel Andr\u00e9 Mar\u00e9chal, and Jeffrey Yusof),\u00a0 <em>JPE: Micro<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2023\/03\/criminal_procurement_4march.pdf\">Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting<\/a> (with Francesco Decarolis, Paolo Pinotti, and Silvia Vannutelli), <em>JPE: Micro<\/em>, 2025.<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/09\/Corruption_firm_growth_May_2022.pdf\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-enke.com\/pdf\/Univ_legislators.pdf\">Universalism and Political Representation: Evidence from the Field<\/a> (with Ben Enke, Luis Motas Freitas, and Steven Sun), <em>AER: Insights<\/em>, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama-health-forum\/fullarticle\/2824419\">Physician Altruism and Spending, Hospital Admissions, and Emergency Department Visits<\/a> (with Lawrence Casalino, Shachar Kariv, Daniel Markovits and Jing Li),\u00a0<em>JAMA Health Forum<\/em>, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/09\/Corruption_firm_growth_May_2022.pdf\">Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from Around the World<\/a> (with Sergei Guriev, Carolin Ioramashvili, and Alexander Plekhanov), <em>Economic Journal, <\/em>2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/pol.20200873&amp;&amp;from=f\">SOEs and Soft Incentive Constraints in State Bank Lending<\/a> (with Yiming Cao, Hui Lin, and Yongxiang Wang), AEJ: Policy, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/02\/interstatetrade_msci.pdf\">The impact of socioeconomic and cultural differences on online trade<\/a> (with Dan Elfenbein and Brian McManus), <em>Management Science<\/em>, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/10\/draft_ref_points_JPubEc_revised_sept2022.pdf\">Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence<\/a> (with Jimmy Charite, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Kewei Zhang), <em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/07\/Zodiac_MS2_clean_wtables_cover.pdf\">Superstition and risk-taking: Evidence from &#8220;zodiac year&#8221; beliefs in China<\/a> (with Wei Huang, Bo Ning, Yue Pan, Jiaping Qiu, and Yongxiang Wang), <em>Management Science<\/em>, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2022\/02\/PoliticalBeta_RF_final_MS8303.pdf\">Political Beta<\/a> (with April Knill, Sergey Mityakov, and Margarita Portnykh), <em>Review of Finance<\/em>, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2021\/12\/gender_1Nov_formatted.pdf\">Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries<\/a> (with Francesco Decarolis, Paolo Pinotti, Silvia Vannutelli, and Yongxiang Wang), <em>Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization<\/em>, 2022.<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2021\/06\/BBFHT11june2021.pdf\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/qjab023.pdf\">Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy<\/a> (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Brad Hackinen, and Francesco Trebbi), <em>Quarterly Journal of Economics<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2021\/02\/Covid_rf13-1.pdf\">What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China Journal of Public Economics<\/a> (with C. Sun, Y. Wang, and D. Zhao), <em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/app.20190516&amp;&amp;from=f\">Hometown favoritism and the quality of government monitoring: Evidence from rotation of Chinese auditors<\/a> (with J. Chu, S. Tan, and Y. Wang), <em>AEJ: Applied<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2020\/04\/local_comp_16Mar2020.pdf\">Distributional Preferences in larger groups: Keeping up with the Joneses and keeping track of the tails<\/a> (with Ilyana Kuziemko and Silvia Vannutelli), <em>Journal of the European Economic Association<\/em>, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2020\/04\/JEEA_OnlineAppendix.pdf\">Online Appendix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2020\/04\/wealth_tax_31mar2020_rf.pdf\">Do Americans want to tax capital? Evidence from Online Surveys<\/a> (with Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Suresh Naidu), <em>Journal of Public Economics, <\/em>2020.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2025\/08\/bertrand-et-al-2020-tax-exempt-lobbying-corporate-philanthropy-as-a-tool-for-political-influence.pdf\">Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence<\/a> (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi), <em>American Economic Review<\/em>, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2019\/04\/politburo-withtables.pdf\">Social Ties and the Selection of China&#8217;s Political Elite<\/a>\u00a0(with\u00a0Jing Shi, Yongxiang Wang, and Weixing Wu),\u00a0<em>American Economic Review<\/em>, 2020<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2019\/09\/riot_experience_lending_as30.pdf\">Experience of Communal Conflicts and Inter-group Lending<\/a> (with\u00a0Arkodipta Sarkar,\u00a0Janis Skrastins, and Vikrant Vig), <em>Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2018\/12\/trump_merged.pdf\">An Event Long-Short Index: Theory and Applications<\/a> (with Eric Zitzewitz), <em>American Economic Review: Insights<\/em>, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2019\/09\/Pollution_jfe.pdf\">Air Pollution, Affect, and Forecasting Bias: Evidence from Chinese Financial Analysts<\/a> (with\u00a0Rui Dong, Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang, and Nianhang Xu),\u00a0<em>Journal of Financial Economics<\/em>, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2017\/11\/peers-compiled.pdf\">Peer Effects in Legislative Voting<\/a> (with Nikolaj Harmon and Emir Kamenica), <em>AEJ: Applied<\/em>, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2017\/05\/UCC-paper-ray-20170217.pdf\">Does Cheap Talk Affect Market Outcomes: Evidence from eBay<\/a> (with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus),\u00a0<em>AEJ: Applied<\/em>, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fisman\/files\/2017\/03\/cas_JPE_final-1.pdf\">Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science<\/a> (with\u00a0J. Shi, Y. Wang, and R. Xu),\u00a0<em>Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0047272717301421\">Distributional Preferences and Political Behavior<\/a> (with Pamela Jakiela and Shachar Kariv), <em>Journal of Public Economics, <\/em>2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aer.20120942\">Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes: Evidence from an Indian Bank<\/a> (with Daniel Paravisini and Vikrant Vig), <em>American Economic Review, <\/em>2017.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/app.20160008\">The distortionary effects of incentives in government: Evidence from China&#8217;s &#8220;death ceiling&#8221; program<\/a> (with Yongxiang Wang), <em>American Economic Journal: Applied<\/em><em>, <\/em>2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/EFHP_Final revision.pdf\">Human Capital and the Supply of Religion <\/a>(with Joey Engelberg, Jay Hartzell, and Chris Parsons), <em>Review of Economics and Statistics, <\/em>2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/FJK_I-recession.pdf\">How Did the Great Recession Impact Social Preferences?<\/a> (with Pamela Jakiela and Shachar Kariv), <em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/349\/6254\/aab0096\">The Distributional Preferences of an Elite<\/a> (with Pamela Jakiela, Shachar Kariv, and Daniel Markovits), <em>Science<\/em>, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/accidents_61.pdf\">The Mortality Cost of Political Connections<\/a> (with Yongxiang Wang), <em>Review of Economic Studies, <\/em>2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/mepLaborSupply.pdf\">Labor Supply of Politicians<\/a> (with Nikolaj Harmon, Emir Kamenica, and Inger Munk), <em>Journal of the European Economic Association, <\/em>2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/ebay.pdf\">The Private Returns to Public Office<\/a> (with Florian Schulz and Vikrant Vig), <em>Journal of Political Economy, <\/em>2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/AEJMicroEFMpaper.pdf\">Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification<\/a> (with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus), <em>AEJ: Micro, <\/em>2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rfs.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/03\/14\/rfs.hhu017\">Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations<\/a>\u00a0(with Yasushi Hamao and Yongxiang Wang), <em>Review of Financial Studies<\/em>, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/BhargavaFisman2011_final.pdf\">Contrast Effects in Sequential Decisions: Evidence from Speed Dating<\/a> (with Saurabh Bhargava), <em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em>, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/J-Law-Econ-Organ-2014-Fisman-jleo-ewu003.pdf\">Corruption in Chinese Privatizations<\/a> (with Yongxiang Wang), <em>Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations<\/em>, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/governanceCEO.pdf\">Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?<\/a> (with Rakesh Khurana, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Soojin Yim), <em>Management Science<\/em>, 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/J-Law-Econ-Organ-2014-Fisman-jleo-ewu003.pdf\">Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney<\/a> (with David Fisman, Julia Galef, Rakesh Khurana, and Yongxiang Wang), <em>The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &amp; Policy, Advances, <\/em>2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/CharitySubstitutesForReputation_07052011_final.pdf\">Charity as a substitute for reputation: Evidence from an online marketplace<\/a>\u00a0(with Daniel Elfenbein and Brian McManus), <em>Review of Economic Studies<\/em>, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/BhargavaFisman2011_final.pdf\">Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales<\/a>\u00a0(with Charles Calomiris and Yongxiang Wang), <em>Journal of Financial Economics<\/em>, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization, (with Virginia Sarria-Allende),<em> Journal of Applied Economics<\/em>, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/artsmuggling.pdf\">The Smuggling of Art and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques<\/a>\u00a0(with Shang-Jin Wei), <em>American Economic Journal: Applied Economics<\/em>, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/genderperceptions.pdf\">Gender and Workplace Perceptions Around the World: Evidence from the World Values Survey<\/a>\u00a0(with Maura O&#8217;Neill), <em>Journal of Human Resources<\/em>, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/outsourcingtariffevasion.pdf\">Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrep\u00f4t Trader<\/a>\u00a0(with Peter Moustakerski and Shang-Jin Wei), <em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em>, 2008<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/jfe08_limits_to_policy_reversal.pdf\">Limits to Policy Reversal: Privatization in India<\/a>\u00a0(with Siddhartha G. Dastidar and Tarun Khanna),\u00a0<em>Journal of Financial Economics<\/em>, 2008.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/RES08-racial_preferences.pdf\">Racial Preferences in Dating<\/a>\u00a0(with Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, &amp; Itamar Simonson),\u00a0<em>Review of Economic Studies<\/em>, 2008.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JPE07-parking.pdf\">Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from UN Diplomatic Parking Tickets<\/a>\u00a0(with Edward Miguel),\u00a0<em>Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, 2007.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/AER07-Risk.pdf\">Consistency, Heterogeneity, and Granularity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty<\/a>\u00a0(with Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, and Shachar Kariv), <em>American Economic Review<\/em>, 2007.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/AER07-IPG.pdf\">Individual Preferences for Giving<\/a>\u00a0(with Shachar Kariv &amp; Daniel Markovits), <em>American Economic Review<\/em>, 2007. (Note that this paper is a combination of an earlier verison of this paper,\u00a0Pareto Damaging Behaviors, and\u00a0Distinguishing Social Preferences from Preferences for Altruism.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/QJE05-IPR.pdf\">Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data<\/a>\u00a0(with Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley), <em>Quarterly Journal of Economics<\/em>, 2006.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/QJE06-gender_diffs.pdf\">Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment<\/a>\u00a0(with Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, and Itamar Simonson),<em> Quarterly Journal of Economics<\/em>, 2006.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0304387806001106\">Are Corruption and Taxation Really Harmful to Growth? Firm Level Evidence<\/a> (with Jakob Svensson), <em>Journal of Development Economics<\/em>, 2006.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JF04_intersectoral.pdf\">Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach<\/a> (with Inessa Love),<em>Journal of Finance<\/em>, 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JPubEc05-NP_governance.pdf\">Precautionary Savings and the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations<\/a> (with R. Glenn Hubbard), <em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2005.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/REStat06-forecasting_bias.pdf\">The Effect of Foreign Competition on Forecasting Bias<\/a>, <em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em>, 2005.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JPE04-smuggling.pdf\">Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from &#8220;Missing&#8221; Imports in China<\/a> (with Shang-Jin Wei),<em>Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/REStat04-Trade_Credit.pdf\">Does Competition Encourage Cooperation? Evidence from Trade Credit Relationships of African Firms<\/a> (with Mayank Raturi), <em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em>, 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JLE04-politicians_as_bureaucrats.pdf\">Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?<\/a>\u00a0(with Rafael Di Tella),<em> Journal of Law and Economics<\/em>, 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/WD04-groups.pdf\">Facilitating Development: The Role of Business Groups<\/a> (with Tarun Khanna), <em>World Development<\/em>, 2004.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/j\/bejeap.2003.3.issue-1\/bejeap.2003.3.1.1211\/bejeap.2003.3.1.1211.xml\">Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms<\/a>, <em>Advances in Economic Analysis &amp; Policy<\/em>, 2003.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JF03-trade_credit.pdf\">Trade Credit, Financial Intermediary Development, and Industry\u00a0Growth<\/a> (with Inessa Love),\u00a0<em>Journal of Finance<\/em>, 2003.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JPubEc00-corruption_and_decentralization.pdf\">Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs<\/a>\u00a0(with Roberta Gatti), <em>Public Choice<\/em>, 2002.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/AER01-Suharto.pdf\">Estimating the Value of Political Connections<\/a>,<em> American Economic Review<\/em>, 2001.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/fairersex.pdf\">Are Women Really the &#8216;Fairer&#8217; Sex? Corruption and Women in Goverment<\/a> (with David Dollar and Roberta Gatti), <em>Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization<\/em>, 2001.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/WD01-trade_credit.pdf\">Trade Credit and Productive Efficiency in Developing Countries<\/a>,\u00a0<em>World Development<\/em>, 2001.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/JEBO99-Trust_and_info.pdf\">Is Trust a Historical Residue? Information Flows and Trust Levels<\/a>\u00a0(with Tarun Khanna),<em>Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization<\/em>, 1999.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/symptompresentation.pdf\">Cultural Influences on Symptom Presentation in Childhood <\/a>(with Sandra Fisman),<em> Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/em>, 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other publications<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/innovationsgovernance.pdf\">Innovations in Governance<\/a> (with Eric Werker), <em>Innovation Policy and the Economy, <\/em>2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/fisman\/files\/2015\/11\/tradingfavors.pdf\">Trading favors within Chinese business groups<\/a>\u00a0(with Yongxiang Wang), <em>AEA Papers and Proceedings<\/em>, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/30034438?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Tool Kit<\/a> (with Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, and Shachar Kariv), <em>American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings<\/em>, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Working Papers Revolving Door Laws and Political Selection (with Jetson Leder-Luis, Catherine O\u2019Donnell, and Silvia Vannutelli), 2025. 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