Edmund Malesky

Journal article American Journal of Political Science · July 1, 2018 Featured Publication Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor standards and practices? We anticipate variation among internationally engaged firms in their propensity to improve labor standards. Upgrading is most likely when a f ... Full text Open Access Cite

Incentives to pander: How politicians use corporate welfare for political gain

Book · March 15, 2018 Featured Publication Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these polici ... Full text Cite

Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Journal article International Organization · January 1, 2018 Featured Publication International relations scholarship has made great progress on the study of compliance with international agreements. While persuasive, most of this work has focused on states' de jure compliance decisions, largely excluding the de facto behavior of nonsta ... Full text Open Access Cite

The danger of not listening to firms: Government responsiveness and the goal of regulatory compliance

Journal article Academy of Management Journal · October 1, 2017 Featured Publication Firms in emerging economies exhibit dangerously low rates of compliance with government regulations aimed at protecting society from the negative externalities of their operations. This study builds on individual-level theories from organizational behavior ... Full text Open Access Cite

China's governance puzzle: Enabling transparency and participation in a single-party state

Book · February 27, 2017 Featured Publication China is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented far-reaching governance reforms designed to promote government ... Full text Cite

Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study

Journal article Comparative Political Studies · November 1, 2016 Featured Publication In 2015, Comparative Political Studies embarked on a landmark pilot study in research transparency in the social sciences. The editors issued an open call for submissions of manuscripts that contained no mention of their actual results, incentivizing revie ... Full text Open Access Cite

The impact of governance and transparency on firm investment in Vietnam

Journal article Economics of Transition · October 1, 2015 Featured Publication A large literature asserts a causal relationship between the quality of economic governance and economic performance. However, attempts to establish such a link at an aggregate level have met with considerable methodological criticism. This paper seeks to ... Full text Open Access Cite

Monopoly Money: Foreign Investment and Bribery in Vietnam, a Survey Experiment

Journal article American Journal of Political Science · April 1, 2015 Featured Publication Prevailing work argues that foreign investment reduces corruption, either by competing down monopoly rents or diffusing best practices of corporate governance. We argue that the mechanisms generating this relationship are not clear because the extant empir ... Full text Open Access Cite

The impact of recentralization on public services: A difference-in- differences analysis of the abolition of elected councils in vietnam

Journal article American Political Science Review · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Comparative political economy offers a wealth of hypotheses connecting decentralization to improved public service delivery. In recent years, influential formal and experimental work has begun to question the underlying theory and empirical analyses of pre ... Full text Open Access Cite

The political economy of development in china and Vietnam

Journal article Annual Review of Political Science · January 1, 2014 Featured Publication Two theories predominate in discussions of why China and Vietnam have, over the past three decades, achieved such rapid economic growth. The first argues that their startling performance can be explained by economic factors associated with late industriali ... Full text Open Access Cite

Heterogeneity and Group Performance: Evaluating the Effect of Cultural Diversity in the World's Top Soccer League

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Vietnam Through Chinese Eyes: Divergent Accountability in Single-Party Regimes

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The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly.

Journal article American Political Science Review · November 2012 Featured Publication An influential literature has demonstrated that legislative transparency can improve the performance of parliamentarians in democracies. In a democracy, the incentive for improved performance is created by voters’ responses to newly available information. ... Full text Open Access Cite

Nodding or Needling: Analyzing Delegate Responsiveness in an Authoritarian Parliament

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Institutions and inequality in single-party regimes a comparative analysis of vietnam and China

Journal article Comparative Politics · January 1, 2011 Featured Publication Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing economies over the past two decades,their income inequality patterns are very different. An examination of the political institutions in the two countries shows that profound ... Full text Open Access Cite

“Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance in Emerging Economies: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam.”

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Edmund Malesky

Featured Works

“Consultation and Selective Censorship in China"

Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Researching Vietnamese PoliticsA Comment on “Malesky vs. Fforde”

Chains of Love? Global Production and the Firm-Level Diffusion of Labor Standards

Incentives to pander: How politicians use corporate welfare for political gain

Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

The danger of not listening to firms: Government responsiveness and the goal of regulatory compliance

China's governance puzzle: Enabling transparency and participation in a single-party state

Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study

The impact of governance and transparency on firm investment in Vietnam

Monopoly Money: Foreign Investment and Bribery in Vietnam, a Survey Experiment

The impact of recentralization on public services: A difference-in- differences analysis of the abolition of elected councils in vietnam

The political economy of development in china and Vietnam

Heterogeneity and Group Performance: Evaluating the Effect of Cultural Diversity in the World's Top Soccer League

Vietnam Through Chinese Eyes: Divergent Accountability in Single-Party Regimes

The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly.

Nodding or Needling: Analyzing Delegate Responsiveness in an Authoritarian Parliament

Institutions and inequality in single-party regimes a comparative analysis of vietnam and China

The Contribution of Veto Players to Economic Reform

Foreign Investors: Agents of Economic Transition. An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Gerrymandering Vietnam Style: Escaping the Partial Reform Equilibrium in a Non-Democratic Regime

Paint-by-Numbers Democracy: The Stakes, Structure, and Results of the 2007 Vietnamese National Assembly Election

Predictable Corruption and Investment Strategy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Survey of Cambodian Entrepreneurs

Straight Ahead on Red: How Foreign Direct Investment Empowers Subnational Leaders

“Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance in Emerging Economies: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam.”