Academic and policy articles:

"Coping with Aid Volatility," Finance & Development, with Alan Gelb.

"Reforming Aid: Towards More Predictable, Performance-Based Financing for Development", 2007. With Alan Gelb. Forthcoming in World Development.

"Managing Oil Wealth," Finance & Development. 2005. with Alan Gelb and Nils Borje Tallroth.

"The Cost of Doing Business in Africa: Evidence from the World Bank's Investment Climate Surveys ," 2007. With Alan Gelb and Vijaya Ramachandran. Forthcoming in  World Development.

Eifert, Benn; Gelb, Alan; Tallroth, Nils Borje (2003a), “The political economy of fiscal policy and economic management in oil exporting countries,” in Ossowski and Fedelino, eds., Fiscal policy formulation and implementation in oil-producing countries, Washington, DC: IMF


Working papers:

"Infrastructure and Market Structure in Least-Developed Countries," working paper.

"Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa," with Edward Miguel and Daniel Posner, working paper.

"The Economic Response to Regulatory Reform, 2003-06," working paper.

 

References:

 

Edward Miguel

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

University of California, Berkeley

emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu

 

David Levine

Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor

Walter A. Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

levine@haas.berkeley.edu

 

Alan Gelb

Director of Development Policy, DEC (July 2004-)

Chief Economist, Africa Region (-July 2004)

The World Bank

agelb@worldbank.org

 

Walter P. Falcon

Farnsworth Professor of International Economics

Co-Director, Center for Environmental Science and Policy

Stanford University

wpfalcon@stanford.edu

 

David B. Abernethy

Professor of Political Science

Emeritus Director, Center for African Studies

Rhodes Scholar

Stanford University

dba@stanford.edu

 

Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Stanford University

diamond@hoover.stanford.edu