Avner Greif
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First Name: Avner
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Last Name: Greif
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RePEc Short-ID: pgr24
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Postal Address: Department of Economics Stanford University Stanford CA, 94305
Phone: 650 725 8936
Affiliation
- Department of Economics
Stanford University - Location: Stanford, California (United States)
Homepage: http://www-econ.stanford.edu/
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Phone: (650)-725-3266
Fax: (650)-725-5702
Postal: Ralph Landau Economics Building, Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Handle: RePEc:edi:destaus (more details at EDIRC)
Works
Working papers
- Greif, Avner & Iyigun, Murat, 2013. "What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux," IZA Discussion Papers 7398, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Greif, Avner & Iyigun, Murat, 2013. "Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth," IZA Discussion Papers 7377, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2012.
"The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe,"
Working Papers
445, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
- Greif, Avner & Tabellini, Guido, 2012. "The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe," CEPR Discussion Papers 9072, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Greif, Avner & Iyigun, Murat & Sasson, Diego, 2011. "Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?," IZA Discussion Papers 5598, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Avner Greif & Steven Tadelis, 2010.
"A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy,"
Discussion Papers
09-028, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Greif, Avner & Tadelis, Steven, 2010. "A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 229-244, September.
- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2009.
"Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared,"
Working Papers
357, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2010. "Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(2), pages 135-40, May.
- Greif, Avner & Tabellini, Guido, 2010. "Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared," CEPR Discussion Papers 7648, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Greif, Avner, 2008.
"Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie,"
MPRA Paper
9610, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Avner Greif, 2008. "Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie," CESifo Working Paper Series 2350, CESifo Group Munich.
- Avner Greif, 2008. "Contract Enforcement and Institutions among the Maghribi Traders: Refuting Edwards and Ogilvie," Discussion Papers 08-018, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Avner Greif, 1997. "On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Euro," Working Papers 97016, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
- Avner Greif, 1997. "Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa," Working Papers 97037, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
- Avner Greif & Andres Rodriguez-Clare, 1995. "A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies," Working Papers 95003, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
- Avner Greif, . "Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History," Working Papers 96001, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
- Avner Greif, . "Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey," Working Papers 97017, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
Articles
- Avner Greif, 2012. "The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal?," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 65(2), pages 445-469, 05.
- Greif, Avner & Tadelis, Steven, 2010.
"A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy,"
Journal of Comparative Economics,
Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 229-244, September.
- Avner Greif & Steven Tadelis, 2010. "A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy," Discussion Papers 09-028, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2010.
"Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared,"
American Economic Review,
American Economic Association, vol. 100(2), pages 135-40, May.
- Greif, Avner & Tabellini, Guido, 2010. "Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared," CEPR Discussion Papers 7648, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2009. "Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared," Working Papers 357, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
- Brousseau, Eric & Greif, Avner, 2010. "Introduction to the JCE Symposium on "The Dynamics of Institutions"," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 227-228, September.
- Avner Greif, 2009. "The curious commentary on the citation practices of Avner Greif," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 141(3), pages 273-275, December.
- Yadira Gonzalez de Lara & Avner Greif & Saumitra Jha, 2008. "The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(2), pages 105-09, May.
- Avner Greif, 2006. "History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 20(2), pages 221-236, Spring.
- Avner Greif, 2006. "Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 96(2), pages 308-312, May.
- Avner Greif, 2002. "Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 158(1), pages 168-, March.
- Greif, Avner, 2000. "The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(03), pages 251-284, December.
- Greif, Avner, 1998. "Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 88(2), pages 80-84, May.
- Greif, Avner, 1997. "Cliometrics after Forty Years," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 87(2), pages 400-403, May.
- Greif, Avner, 1996. "The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 5(2), pages 473-501.
- Greif, Avner, 1994. "On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 54(02), pages 271-287, June.
- Greif, Avner & Milgrom, Paul & Weingast, Barry R, 1994. "Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 102(4), pages 745-76, August.
- Greif, Avner, 1994. "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 102(5), pages 912-50, October.
- Greif, Avner, 1993. "Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(3), pages 525-48, June.
- Greif, Avner, 1992. "Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 82(2), pages 128-33, May.
- Greif, Avner, 1991. "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(02), pages 459-462, June.
- Greif, Avner, 1989. "Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(04), pages 857-882, December.
Chapters
- Greif, Avner, 2002. "Economic history and game theory," Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, in: R.J. Aumann & S. Hart (ed.), Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 52, pages 1989-2024 Elsevier.
NEP Fields
5 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):- NEP-CUL: Cultural Economics (1) 2010-01-23
- NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2011-04-09
- NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (1) 2010-01-23
- NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (1) 2008-07-30
- NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2012-07-23
- NEP-SOC: Social Norms & Social Capital (3) 2010-01-23 2012-07-23 2012-08-23. Author is listed
- NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (4) 2010-01-23 2011-04-09 2012-07-23 2012-08-23. Author is listed
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Most cited item
- Greif, Avner, 1993. "Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(3), pages 525-48, June.
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- Avner Greif & Guido Tabellini, 2012. "The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe," Working Papers 445, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
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