Articles in Refereed Journals

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2024

Bonifai, Niccolo, Edmund J. Malesky, Nita Rudra (forthcoming). “Economic Risk Perceptions and Willingness to Learn about Globalization: A Field Experiment with Migrants and Other Underprivileged Groups in Vietnam” American Journal of Political Science.

Fertig, Alexander, Alexandra Hartman, Lakshmi Iyer, and Edmund Malesky (forthcoming). “A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar.” Journal of Politics.

Malesky, Edmund J., and Trung Anh Nguyen. (2024). Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty. A Replication Study of Barceló (PNAS, 2021). Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE), 3(2024-5), 1-27.

Malesky, Edmund J., and Quynh Nguyen (2024). “Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam.Studies in Comparative International Development 59.1 (2024): 86-112.

Liu, Amy and Edmund J. Malesky (2024). “Cultural Constraints and Policy Implementation: Effects of the Beijing License Plate Lottery on the Environment,Quarterly Journal of Political Science 19(1), 91-126.

Malesky, Edmund J. and Bui Hai Thiem (2024). “Vietnam in 2023: Stoking the Embers of the Blazing Furnace” Southeast Asian Affairs 2024.

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2023

Delios, Andrew, Malesky, Edmund J. Malesky, Yu Shu, and Griffen Riddler (2023). “Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research.” Journal of International Business Studies, 55(2), 235-251.

Dulay, Dean and Edmund J. Malesky (2023). “Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar.Journal of Politics 85(4), 1385-1400

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2022

Dang, Hai-Anh H., Edmund Malesky, and Cuong Viet Nguyen (2022) “Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19.” Plos one 17.9 (2022): e0272972.

Malesky, Edmund J., 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.

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 (2022).

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 Todd (2022). “Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature,” Journal of Politics 84.3: 1878-1883

Bui, Thiem H., and Edmund J. Malesky. “Vietnam in 2022: Return to a Turbulent Normalcy.Asian Survey 63.2 (2023): 258-269.

Malesky, Edmund. J. (2022). “Vietnam Makes a Model Recovery from COVID-19,” East-Asian Forum, December 24

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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.

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 16.4: 387-427.

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 83.4: 1573-1588.

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

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

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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, Nguyen Van Thang, Bach Nguyen Thang, 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: 129-150.

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.

Gueorguiev, Dimitar and Edmund J. Malesky (2019). “Consultation and Selective Censorship in China,” Journal of Politics 81.4: 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.

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2018

Malesky, Edmund J. 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: 712-728

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.

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2017

Bai, Jie, Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky, and Benjamin A. Olken. 2017. “Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam.The Economic Journal 29.618: 651-677

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, 60.5: 1741- 1770.

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

Becker, Jordan M., and Edmund J. Malesky. 2017. “The Continent or the “Grand Large”? Strategic Culture and Operational Burden-Sharing in NATO.” International Studies Quarterly. 61.1: 163-180

Ingersoll, Kieth, Edmund Malesky, and Sebastian Saiegh. 2017. “Heterogeneity and team performance: Evaluating the effect of cultural diversity in the world’s top soccer league.” Journal of Sports Analytics, 3.2:67-92

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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, Comparative Political Studies, 49.13: 1667-1703.

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) 33.2: 125-138.

    • Introduction to a 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. 2015. “Transfer Pricing and Global Poverty.” International Studies Review 17.4: 669-677.

Jensen, Nathan, and Edmund Malesky. 2015. “Competing for Global Capital or Local Voters? The Politics of Business Location Incentives.” Public Choice, 164.3-4: 331-356.

Malesky, Edmund, Neil McCulloch, Nguyen Duc Nhat. 2015. “The Impact of Governance and Transparency on Firm Investment in Vietnam.Economics of Transition, 23.4: 677-715

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.

    • 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: 395-419.

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2013

Jensen, Nathan, Edmund Malesky, Mariana Medina, and Ugur Ozdemir. 2013. “Pass the Bucks: Credit, Blame, and the Global Competition for Investment,” International Studies Quarterly, 58.3: 433-447.

Jensen, Nathan, Edmund Malesky, Stephen Weymouth. 2013. “Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk.British Journal of Political Science, 44.3: 655-684.

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.

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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 andNew 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.

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.

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2009

Malesky, Edmund and Markus Taussig. 2009. “Out of the Gray: The Impact ofProvincial 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.

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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