Intellectuals and Power - a collection of essays about the participation of the Czech dissidents in the first non-communist government of Czechoslovakia, 1990-1992. Published as a book in September 2001 with a grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

Property Rights, Institutions and Economic Deregulation - a study of the Chilean economic reforms between 1964 and 1998 from the point of view of property rights allocation and institutional reform. Presented at a IHS seminar, May 2003.

Can Your Motherland Hurt Your Chances to Get a Job Abroad? - a field experiment on labor market discrimination against legal aliens in the Czech Republic (without the statistical tables). Presented at the Human Rights Seminar at the University of Chicago in January 2004.

Do Prolonged Health Crises Weaken Civil Societies? Evidence From the AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. Presented at the Health and Demography Seminar at the University of Chicago in May 2005.

The Endogenous Determination of the Taste for Leisure: Implications fro Labor Supply and Social Security Reform - VERY PRELIMINARY! Basically, this is an alternative explanation of why labor supply is more elastic in the long run, and of why people work less as they live longer.

Financial Market Imperfections and Investment in Human Capital: Implications for Firm Size Distribution and Market Structure Job market paper (in progress).