The recent furor over “Buy American” provisions in the US stimulus program underscores the salience of public procurement for international trade. Procurement markets worldwide account for trillions of dollars in commercial transactions; hence discrimination in these markets constitutes a...

Globalization is often credited with the expansion of the welfare state and increased spending on social insurance programs. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between globalization and social welfare spending is mixed. One possible explanation for these mixed results might be...

This is an answer to the consultation organised by UK's Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy on designing a new domestic subsidy control regime reflecting UK's strategic interests and national circumstances. We argue that The UK economy would certainly benefit from a stable,...

A growing body of literature argues that democracies are more likely to comply with international agreements than authoritarian states. However, substantial variation exists in the compliance behaviour of democracies. How can this variation be explained? The same mechanism that links regime type...

Virtually every government provides distributive transfers for electoral purposes. However, the level and form of such transfers vary dramatically across countries. Although transfers take many forms, they can generally be characterized as being either broad (providing benefits to large segments...

Globalization is often credited with the expansion of the welfare state and increased spending on social insurance programs. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between globalization and social welfare spending is mixed. One possible explanation for these mixed results might be...

This dissertation develops dynamic stochastic models of heterogeneous firms in small open economies and uses them to analyze how firms' decisions are shaped by their participation in export markets and to understand the implications that these decisions have for firm-level volatility and the...