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)
“Government Information Transparency” with Joan Esteban (IAE) and Paolo Vanin (Bologna).
“Fiscal Centralization and the Political Process”, with Antonio Cabrales.
“Incentives, Ressources and the Organisation of the School Service”, with Sami Berlinski (UCL) and Antonio Cabrales (Carlos III)
“An Economic Theory of Political Institutions: Foreign Interventionand Overseas Investments” with Toke Aidt (Cambridge University),Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming)
“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