Research interests
International Economics, Industrial organisation, development economics and technology & innovation economics.
Research Group:
Political Economy and Economic Policy
Recent publications and working papers
“Sequential Exporting” with Hector Calvo (Southampton), Gregory Corcos (NHH) and Emanuel Ornelas (LSE), Journal of International Economics (forthcoming).
“Government Information Transparency” with Joan Esteban (IAE) and Paolo Vanin (Bologna), Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming).
“An Economic Theory of Political Institutions: Foreign Interventionand Overseas Investments” with Toke Aidt (Cambridge University), Journal of Development Economics, 2011 vol. 94(2), pages 192-201, March.
"Foreign investment and expropriation under oligarchy and democracy," with Sebastian Galiani and Daniel Heymann, Economics and Politics 2012, vol. 24(1), pages 24-46, 03.
“Subsidy Competition and the Mode of FDI” with T. Kendall (U. ofBirmingham) and G. Corcos (NHH), Birmingham Discussion Paper 05-15R,Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39, 489-501.
“Fiscal Centralization and the Political Process”, with Antonio Cabrales, CEPR Discussion Papers 7665.
“Incentives, Ressources and the Organisation of the School Service”, with Sami Berlinski (UCL) and Antonio Cabrales (Carlos III), CEPR Discussion Papers 8653