2022

Malesky, Edmund , Jason D. Todd, and Anh Tran (2022). “Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam.” American Political Science Review, 1-21.
***Awarded best paper on Southeast Asia at American Political Science Association Conference.

Malesky, Edmund, Tuan-Ngoc Phan, and Anh Quoc Le (2022). “Do subnational performance assessments lead to improved governance? Evidence from a field experiment in Vietnam.” Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy.

Springman, Jeremy, Edmund J. Malesky, Lucy Right, Erik Wibbels (2022). “The Effect of Government Repression on Civil Society: Evidence from a Conjoint Survey Experiment in Cambodia.” International Studies Quarterly 66.3: 1-15.

Malesky, Edmund and Jason Douglas Todd. (2022) “Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature,” Journal of Politics: Vol. 84, Issue 3 (published online May 02, 2022). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716967

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2021

Nguyen, Quynh and Edmund Malesky (2021). “Fish or Steel: New Evidence on the Environment-Economy Trade-Off in Developing Vietnam.” World Development 147.2021, 105603

Malesky, Edmund J (2021). “Enhancing the Literature on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam,” Problems of Postcommunism. 68. 3: 163-170. doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1865822

Chapman, Terrence L., Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky, and Scott Wolford. (2021) “‘Leakage’ in International Regulatory Regimes: Did the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Increase Bribery?,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 16: No. 4: 387-427. dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00019193 (download)

Todd, Jason D., Edmund Malesky, Anh Tran, and Quoc Anh Le (2021). “Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly,” Journal of Politics: Vol. 83, No. 4: 1573-1588 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/715169 (download)

Malesky, Edmund J., and Helen V. Milner (2021). “Fostering global value chains through international agreements: Evidence from Vietnam,” Economics & Politics 33.3, 443-482. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12186 (download)

Malesky, Edmund J., and Layna Mosley (2021). “Labor Upgrading and Export Market Opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam,” Economics & Politics 33.3: 483-513. (download)

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2020

Le, Duong Trung, Edmund Malesky, and Anh Pham (2020). “The impact of local corruption on business tax registration and compliance: Evidence from Vietnam,” Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 177: 762-786.

Malesky, Edmund J., Thang V. Nguyen, Thang N. Bach, and Bao D. Ho (2020). “The Effect of Market Competition on Bribery in Emerging Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Vietnamese Firms.” World Development 131: 104957-104983.

Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler (2020). “Single-Party Incumbency Advantage in Vietnam: A Conjoint Survey Analysis of Public Electoral Support,” Journal of East Asian Studies 20.1: 25-52.

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2019

Malesky, Edmund and Markus Taussig (2019). “How Do Firms Feel About Participation by Their Peers in the Regulatory Design Process? An Online Survey Experiment Testing the Substantive Change and Spillover Mechanisms.” Strategy Science. 4.2.

Malesky, Edmund and Markus Taussig. 2019. “Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance in Emerging Economies: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam.” American Political Science Review 113.2: 530-551.

• Discussed on VoxDev.

Gueorguiev, Dimitar and Edmund Malesky. 2019. “Consultation and Selective Censorship in China,” Journal of Politics 81(4), pp.1539-1545.

Baccini, Leonardo, Giammario Impullitti, and Edmund J. Malesky (2019) “Globalization and state capitalism: Assessing Vietnam’s accession to the WTO.” Journal of International Economics 119: 75-92.

Bai, Jie, Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky, and Benjamin A. Olken. 2019. “Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam.” The Economic Journal 29(618), pp.651-677

• Discussed on VoxDev.

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2018

Jensen, Nathan and Edmund J. Malesky. 2018. “Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.” International Organization, 72.1:33-69.

• Cited in United Kingdom House of Lords in Debate on Revisions to Anti-Bribery Bill.

Malesky, Edmund. 2018. “How I Research: A Comment on Malesky vs. Fforde.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 13.3: 127-162.

Malesky, Edmund J., and Layna Mosley. 2018. “Chains of Love? Global Production and the Firm‐Level Diffusion of Labor Standards.” American Journal of Political Science 62(3), pp.712-728
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2017

Jensen, Nathan and Edmund J. Malesky. 2017. “Does the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Reduce Bribery? An Empirical Analysis Using the Unmatched Count Technique.” International Organization.

Malesky, Edmund J. and Markus Taussig. 2017. “The Danger of Not Listening to Firms: Government Responsiveness and the Goal of Regulatory Compliance.” Academy of Management Journal.

• Awarded Responsible Research in Management 2017 Inaugural IACMR Presidential Award 2017
• Awarded Best Article Award of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management 2017

• Discussed on Washington Post, Monkey Cage.

• Discussed on Fortune

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2016

Findley, Michael G., Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2016 “Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study.” Comparative Political Studies: 0010414016655539.

• Introduction to special issue I co-edited where all submissions were reviewed without empirical results.
• Discussed on The Replication Network, Retraction Watch, Monkey Cage
• Third most downloaded article on CPS for August 2016.

Malesky, Edmund J., and Francis E. Hutchinson. 2016. “Varieties of Disappointment: Why Has Decentralization Not Delivered on Its Promises in Southeast Asia?.” Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (JSEAE) 33, no. 2 (2016): 125-138.

• Introduction to special issue I co-edited by country experts discussing their country’s experience with decentralization and recentralization.

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2015

Malesky, Edmund J. “Transfer Pricing and Global Poverty.” International Studies Review 17, no. 4 (2015): 669-677.

Jensen, Nathan and Edmund Malesky. 2015. “Competing for Global Capital or Local Voters? The Politics of Business Location Incentives.” Public Choice.

Malesky, Edmund , Neil McCulloch, Nguyen Duc Nhat. 2015. “The Impact of Governance and Transparency on Firm Investment in Vietnam.” Economics of Transition <DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12068>

Malesky, Edmund, Dimitar Georguiev and Nathan M. Jensen. 2015. “Monopoly Money: Foreign Investment and Bribery in Vietnam, a Survey Experiment.” American Journal of Political Science 59.2: 419-439.

• Profiled on Experiments in Government and Politics Website (http://egap.org/research/brief-26/)
• Awarded best paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Political Economy Society in 2011.

Malesky, Edmund and Jason Morris-Jung. 2015.  “Vietnam in 2014: Uncertainty and Opportunity in the Wake of the HS-981 Crisis.” Asian Survey 55.1: 165-173.

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2014

Malesky, Edmund, Anh Tran, and Nguyen Viet Cuong. 2014. “The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Differences‐in‐Differences  Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam.” American Political Science Review 108.1: 144-168.  Replication Data

• Awarded best paper on Comparative Policy presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association in 2013.
• Awarded best paper on Comparative Policy presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in 2014.
• Awarded best paper on McGillivray Best Paper Award in Political Economy at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in 2014.

Malesky, Edmund. 2014.  “Vietnam in 2013: Single-Party Politics in the Internet Age.” Asian Survey 54.1: 30-38.

Malesky, Edmund and Jonathan London. 2014. “The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam.”  Annual Review of Political Science 17.

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2013

Jensen, Nathan, Edmund Malesky, Mariana Medina, and Ugur Ozdemir. 2013. “Pass the Bucks: Investment Incentives as Political Credit-Claiming Devices: Evidence from a Survey Experiment.” International Studies Quarterly, June. REPLICATION DATA

Jensen, Nathan, Edmund Malesky, Stephen Weymouth. 2013. “Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk.” British Journal of Political Science REPLICATION DATA

Tuan-Minh Dinh, Edmund Malesky, Trung-Thanh To and Duc-Thanh Nguyen. 2013. “Effect of Interest Rate Subsidies on Firm Performance and Investment Behavior during Economic Recession: Evidence from Vietnam.”  Asian Economic Journal 27.2 (May): 185–207

Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler. 2013. “Star Search: Do Elections Help Non-Democratic Regimes Identify New Leaders?” Journal of East Asian Studies 13.1: 35-68.

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2012

Malesky, Edmund, Paul Schuler, and Anh Tran. 2012. “The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly.” American Political Science Review 106.4: 762-786.

Malesky, Edmund and Dimitar Georguiev. 2012. “Foreign investment and bribery: A firm-level analysis of corruption in Vietnam.” Journal of Asian Economics 23.2: 111–129

Cammet, Melani and Edmund Malesky. 2012. “Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Societies: Implications for Peace and Governance.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 56.6: 982-1016. REPLICATION DATA

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2011

Malesky, Edmund and Nina Merchant-Vega. 2011. “A Peek under the Engine Hood: The Methodology of Subnational Economic Governance Indices.” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 3.2: 186–219.

Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler. 2011. “The Single-Party Dictator’s Dilemma: Information in Elections without Opposition.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 36.4: 491-530.

Malesky, Edmund, Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng. 2011. “Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China.” Comparative Politics 43(4): 401-421.

Malesky, Edmund, Anh Tran, and Paul Schuler. 2011. “Vietnam 2010: Familiar Patterns and New Developments Ahead of the 11th Vietnam Communist Party Congress.” Southeast Asian Affairs 2011: 339-363.

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2010

Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler. 2010. “Nodding or Needling: Analyzing  Delegate Responsiveness in an Authoritarian Parliament.” American Political Science Review 106.4: 762-786. REPLICATION DATA

Jensen, Nathan and Edmund Malesky. 2010. “FDI Incentives Pay – Politically.” Vale Columbia FDI Perspectives 26 (June).

Gelbach, Scott and Edmund Malesky. 2010. “The Contribution of Veto Players to Economic Reform.” Journal of Politics 72.4: 957–975.  REPLICATION DATA

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2009

Malesky, Edmund and Markus Taussig. 2009. “Out of the Gray: The Impact of Provincial Institutions on Business Formalization in Vietnam.” Journal of East Asian Studies 9.2: 249-290.

Malesky, Edmund. 2009. “Foreign Investors: Agents of Economic Transition. An Instrumental Variables Analysis.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4.1: 59-85

Malesky, Edmund. 2009. “Gerrymandering Vietnam Style: Escaping the Partial Reform Equilibrium in a Non-Democratic Regime.” Journal of Politics 71.1: 132-159.

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2008

Malesky, Edmund and Krislert Samphantharak. 2008. “Predictable Corruption and Investment Strategy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Survey of Cambodian Entrepreneurs.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 3.3: 227-267. REPLICATION DATA

Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler. 2008. “Paint-by-Numbers Democracy: The Stakes, Structure, Results, and Implications of the 2007 Vietnamese National Assembly Elections.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4.1: 1-48.

Malesky, Edmund and Markus Taussig. 2008. “Where is Credit Due? Companies, Banks, and Locally Differentiated Investment Growth in Vietnam.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 25.2: 535-578

Malesky, Edmund. 2008. “Straight Ahead on Red: How Foreign Direct Investment Empowers Subnational Leaders.” Journal of Politics 70.1:97-119.

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2004

Malesky, Edmund. 2004. “Leveled Mountains and Broken Fences: Measuring and Analyzing De Facto Decentralization in Vietnam.” European Journal of South East Asian Studies 3.2: 307-337.

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