Economics and the role of culture.

IMT Lucca.

Looking for a job outside Berkeley: Columbia, Sciences Po and Toulouse

Looking for a job outside Berkeley.

My parents’ deaths, a few months apart.

A sabbatical at the European University Institute in Fiesole Italy.

Elsa’s cancer

Being department chair (2008-2011)

Florence’s trip around the world

Writing an undergraduate textbook on economics of development.

Writing an undergraduate textbook on economics of development

Thinking about North Korea and North East Asian cooperation.

Research on voting patterns in the European Parliament.

Accession of transition countries to the EU: my 2004 keynote address at the ECB.

Starting to think about culture

Heddy at UC Berkeley.

Thinking about the European Constitution.

Research with Ted Miguel on the long run impacts of bombing Vietnam.

Traveling to Moldova with Joe Stiglitz.

My friendship with Janos Kornai.

Project Tuscany.

The Californian outdoors life.

Honorary professorship and conference in Beijing (Renmin University) on my transition book.

Entrepreneurship in transition and development.

Thinking in 2001 about future research.

September 11

Tourism and immigration.

Receiving an offer and moving.

A year at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences in Stanford.

Economics of Transition and the output fall.

Understanding China’s successful transition to the market economy: second part.

Understanding China’s successful transition to the market economy: first part.

Proposing electoral reform in Colombia

Working on the economics of political constitutions with T. Persson and G. Tabellini.

Working on the CEPR report that provided a foundation for the EU’s Enhanced Cooperation.

Work on the political economy of secession and integration; exciting international political economy conferences.

Travels to Asia in the mid 1990s.

Collegium Budapest, Janos Kornai and Hungary.

Starting to work with my Chinese coauthors.

Forming doctoral students at ULB.

Reforming economics education in transition countries.

The birth of Juliette and opening of the East

The creation of ECARE in 1991 (since 1999 ECARES European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics ). Teaching introductory economics.

Au regard du droit international, l’usage des avoirs russes gelés pour financer l’aide à l’Ukraine est légal. Les objections d’Euroclear, du Premier ministre Bart De Wever et du ministre des Affaires ...

Being in Moscow just after the failed coup.

A semester at UC Davis invited by John Roemer.