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Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dray, Sacha (2024) Trust and state effectiveness: the political economy of compliance. The Economic Journal, 134 (662). 2225 - 2251. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Deaton, Angus (2024) History of inequality. Oxford Open Economics, 3 (Suppl. 1). i176 – i177. ISSN 2752-5074

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2024) Political inequality. Oxford Open Economics, 3 (Suppl. 1). i231 – i232. ISSN 2752-5074

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2024) Organizational dynamics: culture, design, and performance. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 40 (2). 394 – 415. ISSN 8756-6222

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Fetzer, Thiemo and Mueller, Hannes (2024) How big is the media multiplier? Evidence from dyadic news data. Review of Economics and Statistics. ISSN 0034-6535

Dasgupta, Partha and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2023) Biodiversity: a conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta. Annual Review of Economics, 15. 755 - 773. ISSN 1941-1383

Coyle, Diane, Fabian, Mark, Beinhocker, Eric, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Stevens, Margaret (2023) Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview. Fiscal Studies, 44 (2). 109 - 121. ISSN 0143-5671

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2023) The political economics of green transitions. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138 (3). 1863 - 1906. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dray, Sacha (2023) The political economy of lockdown: does free media matter? European Journal of Political Economy, 78. ISSN 0176-2680

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dray, Sacha (2022) Pandemic responsiveness: evidence from social distancing and lockdown policy during COVID-19. PLOS ONE, 17 (5). ISSN 1932-6203

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248, Khan, Adnan and Xu, Guo (2022) Bureaucracy and development. Annual Review of Economics, 14. 397 - 424. ISSN 1941-1383

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2021) Is cohesive capitalism under threat? Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 37 (4). 720 – 733. ISSN 1460-2121

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Jensen, Anders Ditlev and Persson, Torsten (2021) Norms, enforcement, and tax evasion. Review of Economics and Statistics. 1 - 28. ISSN 0034-6535

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Fontana, Nicola and Limodio, Nicola (2021) Antitrust policies and profitability in non-tradable sectors. American Economic Review: Insights, 3 (2). 251 - 265. ISSN 2640-205X

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Stern, Nicholas (2020) The economics of lockdown. Fiscal Studies, 41 (3). 493 - 513. ISSN 0143-5671

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2020) State capacity, reciprocity and the social contract. Econometrica, 88 (4). 1307 - 1335. ISSN 0012-9682

Ahearn, Bertie, Singh Ahluwalia, Montek, Ahmed, Masood, Alphandéry, Edmond, Altwaijri, HE Dr Abdulaziz Altwaijri, Amato, Giuliano, Amersi, Mohamed, Arbour, Louise, Aria, Óscar, Aziz, Shaukat, Bajnai, Gordon, Balkenende, Jan Peter, Banda, HE Joyce, Barak, Ehud, Barletta, Nicolás Ardito, Barroso, José Manuel, Basu, Kaushik, Bazira, Dr Deus, Belka, Marek, Berggruen, Nicolas, Berglöf, Erik ORCID: 0000-0002-4325-3847, Berisha, Sali, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Bildt, Carl, Birkavs, Valdis, Blair, Tony, Bolger, James Brendan, Bondevik, Kjell Magne, Bolton, Patrick, Brahimi, Lakhdar, Brown, Gordon, Brundtland, Gro Harlem, Bruton, John, Calderón, Felipe, Calderón, Rafael Ángel, Cárdenas, Mauricio, Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, Çetin, Hikmet, Chinchilla, Laura, Chissano, HE Joaquim, Cristiani, Alfredo, Clark, Helen, Constantinescu, Emil, Cousin, Ertharin, De Croo, Herman, Cvetković, Mirko, Davies, Gavyn, Đelić, Božidar, Derviş, Kemal, Dreifuss, Ruth, Dybul, Dr Mark, Dzau, Dr Victor J., Dzurinda, Mikuláš, Evans, Gareth, Farrar, Professor Sir Jeremy, Fischer, Jan, Fischer, Joschka, Frattini, Franco, Gaburici, Chiril, Galal, Ahmed, de Gaulle, Nathalie, Gaviria, César, Gonzalez, Felipe, Graham, Dr Hamish, Grenfell, Bryan, Gurib-Fakim, Ameenah, Guriev, Sergei, Gusenbauer, Alfred, Gutiérrez, Lucio, Halonen, Tarja, Hausmann, Ricardo, Ilves, Toomas Hendrik, Holmes, Edward C., Holmström, Bengt, Hurtado, Osvaldo, Ibrahim, Mo, İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, Itzik, Dalia, Ivanić, Mladen, Ivanov, Gjorge, Jilani, Hina, Jomaa, Mehdi, Josipović, Ivo, Karlsson, Mats, Kende-Robb, Caroline, Key, John, Kikwete, HE Jakaya, Ki-Moon, Ban, de Klerk, Frederik Willem, Köhler, Horst, Kosor, Jadranka, Kufuor, HE John, Kumaratunga, Chandrika, Lacalle Herrera, Luis Alberto, Lagos, Ricardo, Lagumdzija, Zlatko, Lamy, Pascal, Lee, Hong-Koo, Leonard, Mark, Leterme, Yves, Letta, Enrico, Lin, Professor Justin Yifu, Livni, Tzipi, Lucinschi, Petru, Lustig, Nora, Machel, Graça, Macri, Mauricio, Mahuad, Jamil, Major, Sir John, Mara, Moussa, Margvelashvili, Giorgi, Martin, Paul, Martinelli, Ricardo, di Mauro, Beatrice Weder, Mbeki, HE Thabo, Medgyessy, Péter, Meidani, Rexhep, Mesić, Stjepan, Mkapa, HE Benjamin, Monti, Mario, Moussa, Amre, Muscat, Joseph, Nakagawa, Dawn, Natsios, Andrew, Nishani, Bujar, Noboa, Gustavo, Obasanjo, Chief Olusegun, Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Ngozi, O'Neill, Lord Jim, Otorbayev, Djoomart, Otunbayeva, Roza, Pagrotsky, Leif, Palacio, Ana, Palmer, Sir Geoffrey, Papandreou, George, Pastrana, Andrés, Patterson, P. J., Pissarides, Christopher ORCID: 0000-0002-0695-058X, Prodi, Romano, Pronk, Jan, Quiroga, Jorge, Raad al Hussein, Zeid, Radičová, Iveta, Ramos Horta, Jose, Ribas Reig, Òscar, Robinson, Mary, Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel, Rodrik, Dani, Roman, Petre, Rudd, Kevin, Sampaio, Jorge, Sanguinetti, Julio Maria, Santos, Juan Manuel, Satyarthi, Kailash, Schüssel, Wolfgang, Serageldin, Ismail, Sexton, Professor John, Shipley, Dame Jenny, Sirleaf, HE Ellen Johnson, Solana, Javier, Soros, George, Spence, Michael, Sridhar, Devi, Stern, Nicholas, Stiglitz, Joseph, Stoyanov, Petar, Straujuma, Laimdota, Sturzenegger, Federico, Suchocka, Hanna, Summers, Lawrence, Tadić, Boris, von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig, Thinley, Jigme, Thorning-Schmidt, Helle, Tkeshelashvili, Eka, Trichet, Jean-Claude, Türk, Danilo, Uteem, Cassam, Velasco, Andres ORCID: 0000-0003-0441-5062, Verhofstadt, Guy, Wantchekon, Leonard, Wei, Shang-Jin, Williams, Dr Rowan, Wolfensohn, James, Yeo, George, Yousafzai, Malala, Yushchenko, Kateryna, Yushchenko, Viktor, Zapatero, José Luis Rodríguez, Zatlers, Valdis, Zedillo, Ernesto and Zhu, Min (2020) The COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to G20 leaders. LSE COVID-19 Blog.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2019) JEEA-FBBVA lecture 2017: The dynamics of environmental politics and values. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17 (4). 993 - 1024. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dixit, Avinash (2019) Environmental catastrophes and mitigation policies in a multiregion world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (12). pp. 5270-5276. ISSN 0027-8424

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2018) Prosocial motivation and incentives. Annual Review of Economics, 10. pp. 411-438. ISSN 1941-1383

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Malcomson, James M. (2018) Competition in public service provision: the role of not-for-profit providers. Journal of Public Economics, 162 (S1). pp. 158-172. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Mueller, Hannes (2018) Institutions, volatility and investment. Journal of the European Economic Association, 16 (3). 604 - 649. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Mueller, Hannes (2018) Predation, protection, and productivity: a firm-level perspective. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 10 (2). pp. 184-221. ISSN 1945-7707

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2017) Profit with purpose? A theory of social enterprise. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9 (3). pp. 19-58. ISSN 1945-7731

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Folke, Olle, Persson, Torsten and Rickne, Johanna (2017) Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man: theory and evidence from Sweden. American Economic Review, 107 (8). pp. 2204-2242. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2017) Public-private partnerships for the provision of public goods: theory and an application to NGOs. Research in Economics, 71 (2). pp. 356-371. ISSN 1090-9443

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Reynal-Querol, Marta (2017) The logic of hereditary rule: theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Growth. ISSN 1381-4338

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2017) Aspirations and the political economy of inequality. Oxford Economic Papers, 69 (1). pp. 1-35. ISSN 0030-7653

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Persson, Torsten and Reynal-Querol, Marta (2016) Resilient leaders and institutional reform: theory and evidence. Economica, 83 (332). pp. 584-623. ISSN 0013-0427

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2016) The contributions of Angus Deaton. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 118 (3). pp. 375-396. ISSN 0347-0520

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2016) Long-run impacts of land regulation: evidence from tenancy reform in India. Journal of Development Economics, 118. pp. 72-87. ISSN 0304-3878

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Fetzer, Thiemo and Mueller, Hannes (2015) The welfare cost of lawlessness: evidence from Somali piracy. Journal of the European Economic Association, 13 (2). pp. 203-239. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2015) Law, regulation, and the business climate: the nature and influence of the World Bank Doing Business project. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29 (3). pp. 99-120. ISSN 0895-3309

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Meads, Neil and Surico, Paolo (2014) The incidence of transaction taxes: evidence from a stamp duty holiday. Journal of Public Economics, 119. pp. 61-70. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2014) The causes and consequences of development clusters: state capacity, peace, and income. Annual Review of Economics, 6 (1). pp. 927-949. ISSN 1941-1383

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Reynal-Querol, Marta (2014) The legacy of historical conflict: evidence from Africa. American Political Science Review, 108 (02). pp. 319-336. ISSN 0003-0554

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2014) Why do developing countries tax so little? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28 (4). pp. 99-120. ISSN 0895-3309

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Ilzetzki, Ethan ORCID: 0000-0002-7573-9411 and Persson, Torsten (2013) Weak states and steady states: the dynamics of fiscal capacity. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5 (4). 205 - 235. ISSN 1945-7707

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2013) What's the good of the market? An essay on Michael Sandel's what money can't buy. Journal of Economic Literature, 51 (2). pp. 478-495. ISSN 0022-0515

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2013) Bailouts and the optimal taxation of bonus pay. American Economic Review, 103 (3). pp. 163-167. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Coelho, Miguel and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2013) Investing for prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation. National Institute Economic Review, 224 (1). R1-R13. ISSN 0027-9501

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2013) Making and breaking tax systems geary lecture 2012. Economic and Social Review, 44 (3). pp. 297-391. ISSN 0012-9984

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Meads, Neil and Surico, Paolo (2013) Risk heterogeneity and credit supply: evidence from the mortgage market. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 27 (1). pp. 375-419. ISSN 0889-3365

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Mueller, Hannes (2012) Estimating the peace dividend: the impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland. American Economic Review, 102 (2). pp. 810-833. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burchardi, Konrad B. and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2012) Incentives and the De Soto Effect. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (1). pp. 237-282. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2012) Just rewards?: local politics and public resource allocation in South India. World Bank Economic Review, 26 (2). pp. 191-216. ISSN 0258-6770

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2011) Pathologies of the state. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 80 (2). pp. 339-350. ISSN 0167-2681

Mirrlees, James, Adam, Stuart, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Blundell, Richard, Bond, Stephen, Chote, Robert, Gammie, Malcolm, Johnson, Paul, Myles, Gareth D. and Poterba, James (2011) The Mirrlees review: conclusions and recommendations for reform. Fiscal Studies, 32 (3). pp. 331-359. ISSN 0143-5671

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2011) Fragile states and development policy. Journal of the European Economic Association, 9 (3). pp. 371-398. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Larcinese, Valentino ORCID: 0000-0002-7780-3093 (2011) Working or shirking?: expenses and attendance in the UK parliament. Public Choice, 146 (3-4). pp. 291-317. ISSN 0048-5829

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Case, Anne and Paxson, Christina (2011) Angus Deaton symposium - introduction. The Economic Journal, 121 (554). F119-F122. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Reynal-Querol, Marta (2011) Do democracies select more educated leaders? American Political Science Review, 105 (03). pp. 552-566. ISSN 1537-5943

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2011) The logic of political violence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (3). pp. 1411-1445. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Persson, Torsten and Sturm, Daniel M. ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089 (2010) Political competition, policy and growth: theory and evidence from the US. Review of Economic Studies, 77 (4). pp. 1329-1352. ISSN 0034-6527

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Robinson, James A. (2010) Quis custodiet ipsos custodes: civilian control over the military. Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2-3). pp. 655-663. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2010) State capacity, conflict, and development. Econometrica, 78 (1). pp. 1-34. ISSN 0012-9682

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Sheedy, Kevin D. ORCID: 0000-0002-0247-6323 (2010) Monetary policy under Labour. National Institute Economic Review, 212 (1). R15-R33. ISSN 0027-9501

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2009) Repression or civil war? American Economic Review, 99 (2). pp. 292-297. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2009) Reply. Review of Austrian Economics, 22 (2). 177 -180. ISSN 0889-3047

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2009) The origins of state capacity: property rights, taxation and politics. American Economic Review, 99 (4). pp. 1218-1244. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2008) Status incentives. American Economic Review, 98 (2). pp. 206-211. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2008) Wars and state capacity. Journal of the European Economic Association, 6 (2-3). pp. 522-530. ISSN 1542-4774

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Meads, Neil and Surico, Paolo (2008) Insiders versus outsiders in monetary policymaking. American Economic Review, 98 (2). pp. 218-223. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2008) Issue unbundling via citizens initiatives. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 3 (4). pp. 379-397. ISSN 1554-0626

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2008) L'offre de services publics par les acteurs non gouvernementaux. Revue d'économie du Développement, 22 (4). pp. 89-108. ISSN 1245-4060

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2007) The new political economy. The Economic Journal, 117 (524). F570-F587. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Preston, Ian (2007) Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (4). pp. 1473-1510. ISSN 0033-5533

Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2007) Retailing public goods: the economics of corporate social responsibility. Journal of Public Economics, 91 (9). pp. 1645-1663. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Smart, Michael (2007) Fiscal restraints and voter welfare. Journal of Public Economics, 91 (3-4). pp. 755-773. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2007) Political economy of panchayats in South India. Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (8). pp. 661-666. ISSN 0012-9976

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2007) Reforming public service delivery. Journal of African Economies, 16 (1). pp. 127-156. ISSN 1464-3723

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Kudamatsu, Masayuki (2006) Health and democracy. American Economic Review, 96 (2). pp. 313-318. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2006) Sorting with motivated agents: implications for school competition and teacher incentives. Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (2-3). pp. 404-414. ISSN 1542-4774

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2005) Participatory democracy in action: survey evidence from South India. Journal of the European Economic Association, 3 (2-3). pp. 648-657. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2005) Credible pensions. Fiscal Studies, 26 (1). pp. 119-135. ISSN 1475-5890

Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2004) Can labour regulation hinder economic performance?: evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (1). pp. 91-134. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2003) Elected versus appointed regulators : theory and evidence. Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 (5). p. 1176. ISSN 1542-4766

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2003) Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach. Journal of Public Economics, 87 (12). pp. 2611-2637. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2003) Incentives, choice and accountability in the provision of public services. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19 (2). pp. 235-249. ISSN 0266-903X

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2003) On the public choice critique of welfare economics. Public Choice, 114 (3). pp. 253-273. ISSN 0048-5829

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2001) Government versus private ownership of public goods. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (4). 1343 - 1372. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2001) From micro to macro : public policies and aggregate economic performance. Fiscal Studies, 22 (3). pp. 357-374. ISSN 0143-5671

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2001) Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media. European Economic Review, 45 (04-Jun). pp. 629-640. ISSN 0014-2921

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2000) Land reform, poverty reduction and growth: evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115 (2). pp. 389-430. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (2000) Unnatural experiments: estimating the incidence of endogenous policies. The Economic Journal, 110 (467). F672-F694. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Rosen, Harvey (1999) Sales taxes and prices: an empirical analysis. National Tax Journal, 52 (2). 157 - 178. ISSN 0028-0283

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Hall, John and Preston, Ian (1999) The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter? Journal of Public Economics, 72 (2). 155 - 181. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (1999) Does inequality mean slow growth? Centrepiece, 4 (1). pp. 24-29. ISSN 1362-3761

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Seabright, Paul (1999) The effects and policy implications of state aids to industry. Economic Policy, 14 (28). pp. 13-53. ISSN 0266-4658

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Rosen, Harvey (1998) Vertical externalities in tax setting: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes. Journal of Public Economics, 70 (3). 383 - 398. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Hall, John and Preston, Ian (1998) Private and public health insurance in the UK. European Economic Review, 42 (03-May). pp. 491-497. ISSN 0014-2921

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1998) Sources of inefficiency in a representative democracy : a dynamic analysis. American Economic Review, 88 (1). pp. 139-156. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Preston, Ian and Ridge, Michael (1997) Fiscal anarchy in the UK : modelling poll tax non-compliance. Journal of Public Economics, 64 (2). pp. 137-152. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dixit, Avinash (1997) James Mirrlees'' contributions to the theory of information and incentives. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 99 (2). pp. 207-235. ISSN 0347-0520

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1997) Monopsony and time-consistency : sustainable pricing policy for perennial crops. Review of Development Economics, 1 (1). pp. 57-70. ISSN 1363-6669

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1997) An economic model of representative democracy. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112 (1). pp. 85-114. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Levenson, Alec (1996) The anatomy of an informal financial market : Roscas in Taiwan. Journal of Development Economics, 51 (1). pp. 45-68. ISSN 0304-3878

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Levenson, Alec (1996) The role of informal finance in household capital accumulation: evidence from Taiwan. The Economic Journal, 106 (434). pp. 39-59. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (1995) Does electoral accountability affect economic policy choices: evidence from gubernatorial term limits. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (3). pp. 769-798. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1995) Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral. Journal of Development Economics, 46 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 0304-3878

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (1995) Incumbent behavior: vote seeking, tax setting and yardstick competition. American Economic Review, 85 (1). pp. 25-45. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1995) Nonmarket institutions for credit and risk-sharing in low-income countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (3). pp. 115-127. ISSN 0895-3309

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1995) Property rights and investment incentives : theory and evidence from Ghana. Journal of Political Economy, 103 (5). pp. 903-937. ISSN 0022-3808

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Jewitt, Ian (1995) Uniform taxation and consumer preferences. Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1). pp. 73-84. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1995) The design of income maintenance programs. Review of Economic Studies, 62 (2). pp. 187-221. ISSN 0034-6527

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Gouveia, Miguel (1994) Alternative systems of health care provision. Economic Policy, 9 (2). pp. 200-258. ISSN 0266-4658

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1994) How do market failures justify interventions in rural credit markets? World Bank Research Observer, 9 (1). pp. 27-47. ISSN 0257-3032

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Coate, Stephen and Loury, Glenn (1994) Rotating savings and credit associations, credit markets and efficiency. Review of Economic Studies, 61 (4). pp. 701-719. ISSN 0034-6527

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1994) Three approaches to public economics. International Tax and Public Finance, 1 (2). pp. 197-204. ISSN 0927-5940

Banerjee, Abhijit, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Guinnane, Timothy W (1994) Thy neighbor''s keeper: the design of a credit cooperative with theory and a test. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109 (2). pp. 491-515. ISSN 0033-5533

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (1993) Modelling technology adoption decisions in developing countries. American Economic Review, 83 (2). pp. 396-402. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and McLaren, John (1993) Taxes and bribery : the role of wage incentives. The Economic Journal, 103 (1). pp. 119-141. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Coate, Stephen and Loury, Glenn (1993) The economics of rotating savings and credit associations. American Economic Review, 83 (4). pp. 792-810. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Suzumura, Kotaro (1992) Taxation and welfare in an oligopoly with strategic commitment. International Economic Review, 33 (2). pp. 413-431. ISSN 0020-6598

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1992) Understanding welfare stigma : taxpayer resentment and statistical discrimination. Journal of Public Economics, 48 (2). pp. 165-183. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1992) Workfare versus welfare: incentive arguments for work requirements in poverty alleviation programmes. American Economic Review, 82 (1). pp. 249-261. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Jewitt, Ian (1991) Decentralizing public good supply. Econometrica, 59 (6). pp. 1769-1778. ISSN 0012-9682

Azam, Jean-Paul and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1991) Peasant supply response under food rationing : the role of the food market. European Journal of Political Economy, 7 (3). pp. 331-343. ISSN 0176-2680

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1991) Public provision of private goods and the redistribution of income. American Economic Review, 81 (4). pp. 979-984. ISSN 0002-8282

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1991) Welfare improving user charges for publicly provided private goods. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 93 (4). pp. 495-510. ISSN 0347-0520

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1990) Means testing versus universal provision in poverty alleviation programs. Economica, 57 (225). pp. 119-129. ISSN 0013-0427

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1990) Optimal reimbursement health insurance : an application of profit functions and Frischian demands. Journal of Economic Theory, 51 (2). pp. 403-422. ISSN 0022-0531

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) Commodity taxation and imperfect competition : a note on the effects of entry. Journal of Public Economics, 40 (3). pp. 359-367. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) Ex ante evaluation of health states and the provision for ill-health. The Economic Journal, 99 (394). pp. 132-146. ISSN 0013-0133

Azam, Jean-Paul and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) General equilibrium with parallel markets for goods and foreign exchange : theory and application to Ghana. World Development, 17 (12). pp. 1921-1930. ISSN 0305-750X

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) Publicly provided disaster insurance for health and the control of moral hazard. Journal of Public Economics, 39 (2). pp. 141-156. ISSN 0047-2727

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) A definition of luxury and necessity for cardinal utility functions. The Economic Journal. pp. 844-849. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1989) The demand for health care and health insurance. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 5 (1). pp. 21-33. ISSN 0266-903X

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Kanbur, Ravi (1988) Food subsidies and poverty alleviation. The Economic Journal, 98 (392). pp. 701-719. ISSN 0013-0133

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Preston, Ian (1988) Invariance and the axiomatics of income tax progression: a comment. Bulletin of Economic Research, 40 (2). pp. 159-163. ISSN 0307-3378

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1988) Optimal reimbursement health insurance and the theory of Ramsey Taxation. Journal of Health Economics, 7. pp. 321-336. ISSN 0167-6296

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1988) Rationing, income effects and supply response : a theoretical note. Oxford Economic Papers, 40 (2). pp. 378-389. ISSN 0030-7653

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1988) Tied-in credit with a monopoly product market. Economics Letters, 28 (2). pp. 105-108. ISSN 0165-1765

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1988) A simple model for merit good arguments. Journal of Public Economics, 35 (3). pp. 371-383. ISSN 0047-2727

Book Section

Allen, Tim ORCID: 0000-0003-1866-0181, Simpson, Nikita ORCID: 0000-0001-5260-3266, Renda, Andrea, Dann, Chris, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Bear, Laura, Pöllänen, Elin, Osika, Walter, Allen, Tim ORCID: 0000-0003-1866-0181 and Berglöf, Erik ORCID: 0000-0002-4325-3847 (2021) Pandemic governance: reflections from the pan-European PERISCOPE Project. In: Group of Nations G20 + COP26 Global Leaders Briefing Report. CAT Company Publications, London, UK, pp. 74-77.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Mueller, Hannes (2018) Cohesive institutions and the distribution of political rents: theory and evidence. In: Basu, Kaushik and Cordella, Tito, (eds.) Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption. International Economic Association. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 165-208. ISBN 9783319656830

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 and Esteve-Volart, Berta (2013) The policy origins of poverty and growth in India. In: Besley, Timothy and Cord, Louise J., (eds.) Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons From Country Experiences. World Bank, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 59-79. ISBN 9780821365151

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Jayaraman, Rajshri (2010) Introduction: institutional microeconomics of development. In: Besley, Timothy and Jayaraman, Rajshri, (eds.) Institutional Microeconomics of Development. CESifo seminar series. MIT Press, Cambridge, USA. ISBN 9780262014069

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2009) Property rights and economic development. In: Rodrick, Dani and Rosenzweig, M. R., (eds.) Handbook of Development Economics. Handbooks in economics. Elsevier (Firm), pp. 4525-4595. ISBN 9780444529442

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Kudamatsu, Masayuki (2008) Making autocracy work. In: Helpman, Elhanan, (ed.) Instiutions and Economic Performance. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA. ISBN 9780674030770

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2006) Public goods and economic development. In: Banerjee, Abhijit, Benabou, R and Mookherjee, D, (eds.) Understanding Poverty. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 285-302. ISBN 0195305205

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2005) Introduction: Development challenges in the 1990s: leading policymakers speak from experience. In: Besley, Timothy and Zagha, Roberto, (eds.) Development Challenges in the 1990s: Leading Policymakers Speak From Experience. Oxford University Press and The World Bank, New York, USA, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780821358726

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2005) Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations. In: Hutter, Bridget and Power, Michael, (eds.) Organizational Encounters With Risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 149-166. ISBN 0521609283

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2004) Elected versus appointed regulators. In: Rowley, Charles K and Schneider, Friedrich, (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Public Choice. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht ; London. ISBN 0-306478285

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Coate, Stephen and Guinnane, Timothy (2004) Incentives, information, and welfare : England''s new Poor Law and the workhouse test. In: Guinnane, Timothy W, Sundstrom, William A and Whatley, Warren, (eds.) History Matters : Essays in Honour of Paul David. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., pp. 245-270. ISBN 0-804743983

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2003) Welfare economics and public choice. In: Rowley, Charles K and Schneider, Friedrich, (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Public Choice. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht ; London, 933 - 940. ISBN 9780792386070

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 and Prat, Andrea (2002) Mass media and political accountability. In: Islam, Roumeen, Djankov, Simeon and McLiesh, Caralee, (eds.) The Right to Tell: the Role of Mass Media in Economic Development. WBI development studies. World Bank, Washington, D.C, USA, pp. 45-60. ISBN 0821352032

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2002) An economic model of representative democracy. In: Basu, Kaushik, (ed.) Readings in Political Economy. Blackwell readings for contemporary economics. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Malden, Mass. ISBN 0-63-122332-0

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2001) Political institutions and policy competition. In: Kochendorfer-Lucius, Gudrun and Pleskovic, Boris, (eds.) The Institutional Foundations of a Market Economy. Villa Borsig Workshop Series 2000. World Bank, Washington, D.C, pp. 102-109.

Banerjee, Abhijit, Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Guinnane, Timothy W (2000) Thy neighbor's keeper : the design of a credit cooperative with theory and a test. In: Bardhan, Pranab and Udry, Christopher, (eds.) Readings in Development Microeconomics. Readings in economics. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.. ISBN 0-262-02484-5; 0-262-52282-9

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1999) Property rights and investment incentives. In: Newman, Peter, (ed.) New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and McLaren, John (1999) Taxes and bribery : the role of wage incentives. In: The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets. Volume 2. the Economics of Illegal Activities. International library of critical writings in economics; vol. 111. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 1-85898-930-2

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1995) Savings, credit and insurance. In: Behrman, Jere and Srinivasan, T N, (eds.) Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 3. Handbooks in economics; v. 9. North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0-444884815

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1993) Targeting taxes and transfers : administrative costs and policy design in developing countries. In: Hoff, Karla, Braverman, Avishay and Stiglitz, J, (eds.) The Economics of Rural Organization : Theory, Practice and Policy. Oxford University Press for the World Bank, Oxford. ISBN 0-195208889

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Collier, P (1991) Import compression and trade policy. In: Frimpong Ansah, J H, Kanbur, S M R and Svedberg, P, (eds.) Trade and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 203-230. ISBN 0-71-903478-7

Banerjee, Anindya and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1991) Moral hazard, limited liability and taxation : a principal agent model. In: Sinclair, Peter J N and Slater, Martin D E, (eds.) Taxation, Private Information and Capital. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 46-60. ISBN 0-19-828729-1

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1991) The demand for health care and health insurance. In: McGuire, Alistair, Fenn, Paul and Mayhew, Ken, (eds.) Providing Health Care : the Economics of Alternative Systems of Finance and Delivery. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 46-64. ISBN 0-198283229

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Kanbur, Ravi (1991) The principles of targeting. In: Balasubramanyam, V N and Lall, S, (eds.) Current Issues in Development Economics. Macmillan Education, Basingstoke, pp. 69-90.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Jewitt, I (1990) Optimal uniform taxation and the structure of consumer preferences. In: Myles, G D, (ed.) Measurement and Modelling in Economics. Elsevier Science (Firm), Amsterdam, pp. 131-147. ISBN 0-44-488515-3

Monograph

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Roland, Isabelle and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2020) The aggregate consequences of default risk: evidence from firm-level data. CEP Discussion Papers (1672). Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2013) Profit with purpose? a theory of social enterprise with experimental evidence. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 047). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini, Leight, Jessica and Rao, Vijayendra (2011) The regulation of land markets: evidence from tenancy reform in India. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 031). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2011) Taxation and regulation of bonus pay. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 030). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Persson, Torsten and Sturm, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089 (2010) Political competition, policy and growth: theory and evidence from the United States. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1009). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Dewatripont, Mathias and Guriev, Sergei (2010) Transition and transition impact: a review of the concept and implications for the EBRD. . European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Reynal-Querol, Marta (2009) Do democracies select more educated leaders. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2009) State capacity, conflict and development. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 10). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Mueller, Hannes (2009) Estimating the peace dividend: the impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 11). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burchardi, Konrad B. and Bevan, Gwen ORCID: 0000-0003-2123-3770 (2009) Naming and shaming: the impacts of different regimes on hospital waiting times in England and Wales. Discussion paper (7306). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2009) The de Soto effect. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 008). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2009) Property rights and economic development. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP/2009/6). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2009) The incidence of civil war: theory and evidence. Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers (EOPP 005). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Meads, Neil and Surico, Paolo (2008) Household external finance and consumption. Discussion Papers (6934). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK. (Submitted)

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2007) Just rewards? Local politics and public resource allocation in South India. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Kudamatsu, Masayuki (2007) Making autocracy work. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Preston, Ian (2006) Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 and Donaldson, David (2006) Confronting global poverty: the role of institutions, expanding opportunities and market liberalization. . EGDI Secretariat, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Larcinese, Valentino ORCID: 0000-0002-7780-3093 (2005) Working or shirking? A closer look at MPs’ expenses and parliamentary attendance. Political Economy and Public Policy Paper (PEPP/15). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Payne, A. Abigail (2005) Implementation of anti-discrimination policy: does judicial selection matter? . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2005) Political selection and the quality of government: evidence from south India. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Smart, Michael (2005) Fiscal restraints and voter welfare. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2005) Handcuffs for the grabbing hand: media capture and government accountability. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3132 2002 (PEPP/7). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Persson, Torsten and Sturm, Daniel.M ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089 (2005) Political competition and economic performance: theory and evidence from the United States. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2004) Credible pensions. Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers (525). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2004) Competition and incentives with motivated agents. CEPR discussion paper no. 4641. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2003) Competition and incentives with motivated agents. Theoretical Economics; TE/2003/465 (TE/03/465). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2003) Pension fund governance and the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers (454). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2003) Incentives, choice and accountability in the provision of Public Services. CARR Discussion Papers (DP 14). ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2003) Can labor regulation hinder economic performance : evidence from India. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2003) Halving global poverty. . London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2003) Pension fund governance and the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans. CEPR discussion paper; no. 3955. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Faguet, Jean-Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-7188-0098 and Tommasi, Mariano (2003) A synoptic guide to decentralization. . The Authors.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2002) Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India. . Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 and Pratt, Andrea (2002) Mass media and political accountability. CARR Discussion Papers (DP 6). ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2002) Can labour regulation hinder economic performance: evidence from India. CEPR discussion paper no. 3260. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Smart, Michael (2002) Does tax competition raise voter welfare. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3131 2002. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2002) Handcuffs for the grabbing hand: media capture and government accountability. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3132 2002. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (2002) Political institutions and policy choices : evidence from the United States. CEPR discussion paper no. 3498. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (2001) Government versus private ownership of public goods. CEPR discussion paper; no. 2725. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2001) Issue unbundling via citizens'' initiatives. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2857 2001. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2001) The political economy of government responsiveness : theory and evidence from India. CEPR discussion paper ; no. 2721. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, S (2000) Issue unbundling via citizens'' initiatives. NBER Working Paper (8036). National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (2000) The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India. Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 28 (DEDPS 28). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2000) Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods : a political economy analysis. CEPR discussion paper no. 2495. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (2000) Elected versus appointed regulators : theory and evidence. CEPR discussion paper; no. 2381. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897 (1999) Public-private partnership for the provision of public goods : theory and an application to NGOs. Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 17 (DEDPS No. 17). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Burgess, Robin ORCID: 0009-0002-1187-3248 (1998) Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India. Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 13 (DEDPS 13). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Pande, Rohini (1998) Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission. Theoretical Economics; TE/1998/355 (TE/98/355). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1997) Analyzing the case for government intervention in a representative democracy. Theoretical Economics; TE/1997/335 (TE/07/335). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, Stephen (1997) Lobbying and welfare in a representative democracy. Theoretical Economics; TE/1997/334 (TE/1997/334). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Rosen, HS (1997) Vertical externalities in tax setting: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes. IFS working papers (W97/23). Institute for Fiscal Studies (Great Britain), London, UK.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Case, Anne (1994) Diffusion as a learning process : evidence from HYV Cotton. Woodrow Wilson School, Research Program in Development Studies Discussion Paper; No. 174 (May 1994). Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and McLaren, John (1990) Monitoring and wage incentives : capitulation versus efficiency wages. Woodrow Wilson School, John M. Olin Program Discussion Paper, (October 1990)..

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Banerjee, Abhijit (1990) Peer group externalities and learning incentives : a theory of nerd behavior. Woodrow Wilson School, John M. Olin Program Discussion Paper; No. 68, (October 1990).

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Coate, S (1989) Workfare vs welfare : incentive arguments for work requirements in poverty alleviation programs. Warwick economics research paper ; no. 314. University of Warwick, Department of Economics, Coventry.

Banerjee, Anindya and Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (1988) Moral hazard and limited liability in the market for loans : credit restriction versus credit rationing. CEPR discussion paper ; no. 261. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London.

Conference or Workshop Item

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Ilzetzki, Ethan ORCID: 0000-0002-7573-9411 and Persson, Torsten (2010) Weak states and steady states: the dynamics of fiscal capacity. In: The Political Economy of Economic Development, 2010-04-30 - 2010-05-01, Manresa, Spain, ESP. (Submitted)

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2008) Inflation and the global economy. In: Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, 2008-04-22, London, United Kingdom, GBR.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2007) Consumption and Interest Rates. In: Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Economic and Social Research Council at Chartered, 2007-07-17, London, United Kingdom, GBR.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2007) Inflation and the service sector. In: Breakfast Club on 18 January 2007, 2007-01-18, Cardiff, United Kingdom, GBR.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Persson, Torsten and Sturm, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089 (2005) Political competition and economic performance: theory and evidence from the United States. In: Public Sector Economics, 2005-04-22 - 2005-04-24, Munich, Germany, DEU. (Submitted)

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Prat, Andrea (2001) Handcuffs for the grabbing hand: the role of the media in political accountability. In: CEPR/SNS Public Policy Symposium, 2001-09-07 - 2001-09-08, Stockholm, Sweden, SWE. (Submitted)

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Griffith, Rachel and Klemm, Alexander (2001) Empirical evidence on fiscal interdependence in OECD countries. In: World tax competition conference, 2001-01-01, London, United Kingdom, GBR. (Submitted)

Book

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Persson, Torsten (2011) Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., USA. ISBN 9780691152684

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2006) Principled agents?: the political economy of good government. The Lindahl lectures. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0199283915

Online resource

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dann, Chris (2023) Why political trust and voluntary compliance have been key to government pandemic responsiveness in Europe. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog (13 Jan 2023). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dann, Chris (2022) When we talk about state capacity to deal with COVID, we shouldn’t ignore interpersonal trust. LSE COVID-19 Blog (05 Jan 2022). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2021) A sense of mutual obligation means that even the rich should see the point of paying their taxes. LSE COVID-19 Blog (30 Sep 2021). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2021) Tim Besley: governments have been trying to get the balance between voluntary compliance and regulation right. LSE COVID-19 Blog (18 Feb 2021). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Dray, Sacha (2020) Free media help combat the spread of covid-19. LSE COVID-19 Blog (22 Jul 2020). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Velasco, Andres ORCID: 0000-0003-0441-5062 (2020) Politicians can’t hide behind scientists forever – even in a pandemic. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (09 May 2020). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Velasco, Andres ORCID: 0000-0003-0441-5062 (2020) Politicians can’t hide behind scientists forever – even in a pandemic. LSE COVID-19 Blog (06 May 2020). Blog Entry.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Folke, Olle, Persson, Torsten and Rickne, Johanna (2017) Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man. LSE Business Review (14 Mar 2017). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2013) The welfare cost of Somali Piracy. International Growth Centre Blog (10 Dec 2013). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2013) Are economic conditions historically determined? Evidence from violence in Africa. International Growth Centre Blog (06 Dec 2013). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini and Rao, Vijayendra (2013) Winners and losers: tenancy reform in India. (19 Apr 2013). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2013) Investing in UK prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation can get us out of the current stasis. British Politics and Policy at LSE (31 Jan 2013). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Fetzer, Thiemo and Mueller, Hannes (2013) Piracy in Somalia costs billions. Africa at LSE (14 Jan 2013). Website.

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 (2011) Plan B is the wrong rhetoric, but the Treasury must spell out a strategic vision for the UK’s economic growth. British Politics and Policy at LSE (07 Jun 2011). Website.

Other

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372, Jaravel, Xavier ORCID: 0000-0001-9228-2137, Landais, Camille ORCID: 0000-0002-9534-680X and Reis, Ricardo ORCID: 0000-0003-4844-9483 (2020) Treasury Select Committee - call for evidence on Covid-19 financial package. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Audio/visual resource

Besley, Timothy ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372 and Collier, Paul (2015) The case for growth with Tim Besley and Paul Collier. LSE Research Festival 2015, The London School of Economics and Political Science.