Timothy Besley - Selected Publications#

Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government, The Lindahl Lectures, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters (with Torsten Persson), The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011

“Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana,” Journal of Political Economy, 103(5), October 1995, 903-937.

“An Economic Model of Representative Democracy” (with Stephen Coate), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(1), February 1997, 85-114.

“Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), American Economic Review, 95(3), 616-636, 2005.

“The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation and Politics,” (with Torsten Persson) American Economic Review, 99(4), 1218-44, 2009.

“Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders?” (with Marta Reynal-Querol), American Political Science Review, 105(3), 552-566, 2011.

“State Capacity, Reciprocity and the Social Contract,” Econometrica, 88(4) 1351-1358, 2020.