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Macrodeterminants of the Quality of Institutions:

Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy(With Matteo Bobba), published on the Economics Letters, N.96,(2007), pg.301-306

Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions ?(With Roumeen Islam)

(World Bank Policy Research W.P. N.3990.)

Is there and Effect of the Number of Lawyers on the Lenght of Trials?

Instrumental Variables Regressions in Growth, Geography and Institutions:

Reconsidering some results;

(Paper presented at the ICES2003 Conference, and published in the Papers and Proceedings of the conference.)

Below articles from "Corriere della Sera" news paper quoting our paper.

"Corriere della Sera 1", by F. Giavazzi

"Corriere della Sera 2", by C. Mastella (Minister of Justice)

"Corriere della Sera 3", by F. Giavazzi

Financial Development Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence

(With Steve Bond, and Fabio Schiantarelli)

Legal Origins, Financial Development and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence in The Case of Weak Identification

Data Set; Replication Do File (Stata 8), download the corrected .ado file for Moreira (2002)'s tests.

(New version 1.3, February 2005, this paper was presented at the EUI, Microecoometrics lunch seminar, at the 2 Ph.d Conference in Economics, University of Pavia 23-25 September 2004, and at CRISS 2004.). Downoload the PPT presentation.

                   Microeconometrics Working Group at European University Institute:

                                "Weak Instruments and Weak Identification"

Outline,

Slides 1: Weak Instruments in Cross-Sections,

Slides 2: Weak Instruments in Dynamic Panel Data.

Instrumental Variables Regressions in Estimating the Effects of Institutions on Economic Development (With Ines Buono)

Mostly Theory Reading Group, "A Survey of Weak Instruments and...."

(This are the slides of the presentation at Romain's reading group. IMF, Washington D.C.)

The Library Project,