Dr Pedro Vicente

New Resources

Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
The economics of the Arab Spring, CSAE working paper
Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries, CSAE working paper
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times, CSAE working paper
CSAE Newsletter 05, Autumn 2011
Political Origins of Financial Structure, CSAE working paper
Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products, iiG Briefing Paper

Research Officer, CSAE

Biography

Dr Pedro Vicente is a research officer at the Centre for the Study of
African Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Portuguese Catholic University (1998), a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (2000), and both MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in Economics from the University of Chicago.

His research interests are in the intersection of development economics (with a strong microeconomic field-based component) with
institutional/political issues. He has current projects on corruption, vote buying, aid, and conflict.

Publications

"Does Oil Corrupt? Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa", Working Paper.

"Legal Corruption", joint with Daniel Kaufmann, Working Paper.