Alex Tabarrok
Biographic Data
| ID | 6037547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Tabarrok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Tabarrok |
| SIGNATURE | TABARROK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2200-2851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pandemic preparation without romance
Building networks
Mutually beneficial arrangements between politicians and real estate developers are common in many developing countries. We document what happens when the politician-developer nexus is disrupted by an election. We construct a novel dataset of real estate projects and electoral constituencies in Mumbai’s municipal government. We find that an incumbent party losing the election increases real estate project completion times by 5%. We find no effect…
Simple rules for the developing world
A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research
We can imagine a plausible case for government support of science based on traditional economic reasons of externalities and public goods. Yet when it comes to government support of grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for economic research, our sense is that many economists avoid critical questions, skimp on analysis, and move straight to advocacy. In this essay, we take a more skeptical attitude toward the efforts of the NSF to sub…
Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
Building networks
Mutually beneficial arrangements between politicians and real estate developers are common in many developing countries. We document what happens when the politician-developer nexus is disrupted by an election. We construct a novel dataset of real estate projects and electoral constituencies in Mumbai’s municipal government. We find that an incumbent party losing the election increases real estate project completion times by 5%. We find no effect…
Public choice perspectives on intellectual property
A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research
We can imagine a plausible case for government support of science based on traditional economic reasons of externalities and public goods. Yet when it comes to government support of grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for economic research, our sense is that many economists avoid critical questions, skimp on analysis, and move straight to advocacy. In this essay, we take a more skeptical attitude toward the efforts of the NSF to sub…
Simple rules for the developing world
Building networks
Mutually beneficial arrangements between politicians and real estate developers are common in many developing countries. We document what happens when the politician-developer nexus is disrupted by an election. We construct a novel dataset of real estate projects and electoral constituencies in Mumbai’s municipal government. We find that an incumbent party losing the election increases real estate project completion times by 5%. We find no effect…
Pandemic preparation without romance
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public finance (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)