Institutions

“The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size,” (w/ L Laeven), Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2007, Vol. 89(4), pp. 601-614.

“Review of de Soto’s “The Mystery of Capital”, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2001.

“Why do Firms Hide?: Bribes and Unofficial Activity after Communism” (w/ S. Johnson, D. Kaufmann and J. McMillan), June 2000, Journal of Public Economics, (76)3, pp. 495‑520. [Reprinted in The Economics of Transition: The Fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics, Palgrave-McMillan, 2007.]

“Measuring Institutions,” in Rose-Ackerman, editor, International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2006.