Stephen Haber is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, where he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy). In addition, Haber is a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has consulted for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. His research focuses on the impact of fundamental political institutions on economic regulation and property rights systems. Much of his work has focused on Latin America, although he has also written on Africa, the Middle East, and the United States.