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Professor Yared teaches the core course Global Economic Environment. He is a macroeconomist whose focus is growth, development, and political economy. In particular, he seeks to understand the complex links between macroeconomic and political phenomena. His research blends theoretical and empirical approaches and explores a number of key issues in fiscal policy, redistributive policy, economic growth, political development, institutional cycles, and conflict. His research has been published in leading academic journals.

• Spring 2013
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  
• Spring 2012
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  
• Spring 2011
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  
• Spring 2010
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  
• Summer 2009
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  
• Spring 2009
  Global Economic Environment (MBA)
  

Public Debt under Limited Private Credit In Journal of the European Economic Association (2013)
Author(s): Pierre Yared

A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Michael Golosov, Aleh Tsyvinski, Pierre Yared

The Political Economy of Indirect Control In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)
Author(s): Gerard Padró i Miquel, Pierre Yared

Political Limits to Globalization In American Economic Review (2010)
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Pierre Yared

Politicians, Taxes, and Debt In Review of Economic Studies (2010)
Author(s): Pierre Yared

A Dynamic Theory of War and Peace In Journal of Economic Theory (2010)
Author(s): Pierre Yared

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings In Journal of International Economics (2010)
Author(s): Ricardo Caballero, Pierre Yared

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis In Journal of Monetary Economics (2009)
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared

Income and Democracy In American Economic Review (2008)
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared

From Education to Democracy? In American Economic Review (2005)
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared

The Solow Model Unleashed: Understanding Economic Growth: Spring 2013
Author(s): Nicolas Vincent, Pierre Yared

A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles Working Paper (2012)
Author(s): Laurence Ales, Pricila Maziero, Pierre Yared

Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks Working Paper (2012)
Author(s): Marina Halac, Pierre Yared

Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Private Borrowing Limits Working Paper (2012)
Author(s): Pierre Yared

The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, Pierre Yared