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Part 1 Why? (the positive political economy of reforms) - inaction anddelay: the political economy of delayed reform, Allan Drazen; resistance toreform - status quo bias in the presence of individual-specific uncertainty,Raquel Fernandez, Dani Rodrik; why are stabilization delayed? AlbertoAlesina, Allan Drazen; fiscal conservatism as a response to the debt crisis,Raul Laban, Federico Sturzenegger; the benefit of crises for economicreforms, allan Drazen, Vittorio Grilli; dynamics - recurrent high inflationand stabilization - a dynamic game, Guillermo Mondino et al; the commonproperty approach to the political economy of fiscal policy, Andres Velasco;fiscal discipline in a union, Joshua Aizenman; the rush to free trade in thedeveloping world - why so late? why now? will it last? Dani Rodrik. Part 2How? (strategies for reformers): the design of reform packages underuncertainty, Mathias Dewatripont, Gerard Roland; gradualism versus Big-Bang -speed and sustainability of reforms, Shang-Jin Wei; sequencing of economicreforms in the presence of political constraints, Cesar Martinelli, MarianoTommasi. Part 3 Who? (the identity of reformers): promises, promises -credible policy reform via signalling, dani Rodrik; credibility ofpolicymakers and of economic reforms, Alex Cukierman, Mariano Tommasi; thefeasibility of low inflation - theory with an application to the Argentinecase, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Federico Sturzenegger.