John V. Nye

• HSE International Expert Council on priority area of development ‘Economics’: Member of the Council
• International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA): Academic Supervisor

Education and degrees

Academic Positions

• 2007-present Professor of Economics, George Mason University and Frédéric Bastiat Chair in Political Economy, Mercatus Center.
• 2006-2008 Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis.
• 1992-2006 Associate Professor of Economics and History, Washington University.
• 1986-1992 Assistant Professor of Economics, Washington University. 
• 1985-1986 Instructor. Washington University.

Most Recent Research Presentations

• 2010 ICOPEAI Conference on Political Economy and Institutions, Baiona, Spain.
• 2010 Greater Chicago Economic History Workshop.
• 2010 Economics Department, Northwestern University.
• 2009 Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• 2009 World Bank lecture on “What the NIE Can Tell Us About Asian Development”
• 2009 Lecture to Millenium Challenge Corporation on Reform.
• 2009 Invited speaker LACEA-LAMES (Latin American meetings of the Econometric Society), Buenos Aires.
• 2009 International Society for the New Institutional Economics, Annual Conference, Berkeley.
• 2009 Slovak University of Economics, Bratislava.
• 2009 Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva.
• 2009 Centre Cournot, Paris.
• 2008 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Conference on Property Rights
• 2008 Lectures on the Rise of the Modern State, University of the Philippines
• 2008 International Society for the New Institutional Economics, Toronto
• 2008 World Bank Conference on Agricultural Trade Distortions
• 2008 University of Sao Paolo, Argentina.
• 2008 Roundtable on War, Wine, and Taxes, Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago.

Research in Progress

• “Does Fortune Favor Dragons?” with Noel Johnson, under review.
• “Do Black Mayors Improve Black Employment Outcomes?: Evidence from the Large U.S. Cities” with Ilia Rainer and Thomas Stratmann, under review.
• “The Evolution of Institutions:  The Medium, the Long, and the Ultra-Long Run” with Desiree Desierto, under review.
• “Is going to Harvard good for anything?:  The non-pecuniary returns to elite education,” with Charles Moul, under review.
• “The Rise and Fall of the Wine Octroi in Late Nineteenth Century France” with Raphael Franck and Noel Johnson.
• “The Market for Illegal Goods in the Presence of Corruption,” with Desiree Desierto.
• “Testing Doux Commerce:  Does Market Participation Lead to Greater Trust?” with Omar Al-Ubaydli, Dan Houser and Maria Paganelli
• “Do Philippine Senators Reward Their Home Provinces?” with Desiree Desierto
• “The Effects of Temporary Government Spending in Times of War on Long Term Interest Rates,” joint with J. Daniel Ritschel.
• “Why Did the Philippines Fail?:  Capital Market Intervention and the Political Economy of Development 1946-1970” with Ruth Francisco
• “Utility Adjusted Inequality and Irreproducible Positional Goods” with Charles Moul.

Fellowships and Awards

• 2002-2003 Washington University Artsci Council Faculty Award (Teaching and Mentoring)
• 1996-97 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Summer 1996 Kemper Teaching Grant for Innovative New Courses
• 1993-94 Kemper Teaching Grant for Innovative New Courses
• Summer 1991 Washington University Faculty Research Grant
• 1989-1990 John M. Olin Research Fellowship in Economic History.
• Summer 1986 Washington University Faculty Research Grant
• 1984-1985 Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Publications

 

Books

1. 2007: War, Wine, and Taxes:  The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade 1689-1900 -- Princeton University Press.
2. 1997: Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics, co-editor with John Drobak, Academic Press.
3. 1994: Political Economy of Protectionism and Commerce. Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Economic History Congress. Section B7, co-editor with Peter Lindert and Jean-Michel Chevet, Universita Bocconi,  Bocconi. 

Articles

1. “Taking Institutions Seriously:  the Political Economy of Development in the Philippines,” Asian Development Review, 28 (1) 1-21 (lead article) 2011.
2. “The Evolution of Institutions:  The Medium, the Long, and the Ultra-Long Run” with Desiree Desierto,” 2011, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 167(4), 613--629.
3. “Why Do Weak States Prefer Prohibition to Taxation?” with Desiree Desierto, in Caballero and Schofield eds. The Political Economy of Institutions.
4. “Money isn’t everything: Linking college choice to winning prizes and professorships” with Charles C. Moul, Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.
5. “Brewing Nation:  Wine, War, Taxes and the Growth of the British Beer Industry in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries,” in Johann Swinnen, ed.  The Economics of Beer, 62-78, Oxford University Press, 2011.
6. “Does Fortune Favor Dragons?” with Noel Johnson, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 78 (1-2), pp. 85-97, 2011.
7. “The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1899: Agricultural Trade Policies, Alcohol Taxes, and War” in Kym Anderson, ed. The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
8. “Why Do Elites Permit Reform?”  in Emily Chamlee-Wright, editor, The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2009.
9. “The Real New Deal,” The American Interest,  September/October.
10. “Did the Soviets Collude?:  A Statistical Analysis of Championship Chess 1940-78” with Charles Moul.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 70, nos. 1-2, 10-21, May, 2009.
11. “Finding the Right Pigou Tax in a World of Imperfect Coasian Bargains.”   Regulation,2008.
12. “Institutions and the Institutional Environment,” in J.M. Glachant and E. Brousseau, eds. Guidebook to the New Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
13. “The Corn Laws, Free Trade, and Protectionism,”  The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2008.
14. Interview with Walt Rostow in Lyons, Cain, and Williamson, eds. Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution:  Converstations with economic historians, Routledge, 2008.
15. “Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain” with Joel Mokyr, Southern Economic Journal, July, vol. 74, 1, pp. 50-70, 2007.
16. “The Political Economy of Numbers: On the Application of Benford's Law to International Macroeconomic Statistics" with Charles Moul.  The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 17, 2007. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejm/vol7/iss1/art17.
17. “Killing Private Ryan:  A Transactions Cost Analysis of Military Decision Making”, Economics of Governance, 2006.
18.  “Tax Britannica:  Nineteenth Century Tariffs and British National Income” with Sami Dakhlia.  Public Choice,December, 121, pp. 309-33, 2004.
19. “Corn Laws” article in Mokyr, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003.
20. “Free Trade” article  in Mokyr, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003.
21. “North, D.C.” article in Mokyr, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003.
22. “The Importance of Being Late: French Economic History, Cliometrics, and the New Institutional Economics”,  French Historical Studies, 23, no. 3, 423-437,2000.
23.  “Institutions and Economic Growth:  What We Think We Know Vs. What We Pretend to Measure,” in Ken Judd and Young-Ki Lee, ed. An Agenda for Economic Reform in Korea:  International Perspectives, Hoover Press, 2000.
24. “The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances in the G7 Countries” with John Keating, Journal of Macroeconomics, 21, number 263-78, 1999.
25. "Permanent and Transitory Shocks in Real Output:  Estimates from Nineteenth Century and Postwar Economies,"  with John Keating,  Washington University, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 30, no. 2, May 231-251, 1998.
26. “European Monetary and Economic Union:  the View from the Nineteenth Century.” Columbia Journal of European Law, vol. 4, no. 2, 479-486, 1998.
27. “Subjective Fidelity and Problems of Measurement in Audio Reproduction,” in Sarhangi, editor, Bridges:  Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Kansas.
28. “Thinking About the State: Property Rights, Trade, and Changing Contractual Arrangements in a World with Violent Coercion” in Drobak and Nye, eds. Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics, Academic Press, 1997.
29. "The Scale of Production in Western Economic Development:  A Comparison of Official Industry Statistics in the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany, 1905-1913" with Janice Rye Kinghorn, Journal of Economic History, March 90-112.  Nominated for the Cole Prize for outstanding article in JEH, 1996.
30. "Les incidences des relations franco-britanniques sur le commerce du vin (1689-1860)" Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, 30, 79-94, 1994.
31. "Reply to Irwin on Free Trade," Journal of Economic History, 53,no. 1, March, pp. 153-58, 1993.  Reprinted in Dormois and Lains, eds.  Classical Trade Protectionism 1815-1914.

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