Positive Political Theory

Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? (with Daron Acemoglu and Georgy Egorov), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2009

Dynamics and Stability of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Clubs (with Daron Acemoglu and Georgy Egorov)

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments (with Daron Acemoglu and Georgy Egorov) Quarterly Journal of Economics, принято к печати

Why Resource-Poor Dictators Allow Freer Media: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data (with Georgy Egorov and Sergei Guriev), American Political Science Review, Vol. 103, No. 4, pp. 645-668, 2009.

The Killing Game: Reputation and Knowledge in Politics of Succession (with Georgy Egorov)

Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships (with Georgy Egorov) Journal of European Economic Association, принято к печати

A Theory of Brinkmanship, Conflicts, and Commitments (with Michael Schwarz), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2007

Coalition Formation in Political Games (with Daron Acemoglu and Georgy Egorov), Review of Economic Studies, 2008

Adjusting the Median Citizen: An "Eliminations Model" of Stalin's Terror (Data From NKVD Archives) (with Paul Gregory and Philipp Shroeder)

Political Economics, Institutions, Russia

Dictators and Oligarchs: A Dynamic Theory of Contested Property Rights (with Sergei Guriev), Journal of Public Economics, January 2009

Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data (with Sergei Guriev and Anton Kolotilin) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming

Businessman Candidates (with Scott Gehlbach and Ekatherina Zhuravskaya), American Journal of Political Science, принято к печати

Why the Rich May Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights, Journal of Comparative Economics, symposium issue on Appropriate Institutions for Growth (S.Djankov and A.Shleifer, guest editors), 31-4, 715-731, December 2003

Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Bankruptcy Law Transplant (with Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), Journal of Comparative Economics, symposium issue on Courts and Judges (P.Spiller, guest editor), 35-2, 253-442. June 2007

Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side of the Yukos Affair (with Alexei Goriaev)

Provincial Protectionism, Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming

Passive Creditors (with Koen Schoors), International Finance, 8 (1), 57-86, March 2005.