or internal to the state? When are large states associated with higher income levels and growth rates than small states …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is … predicated via three sub-chains (i) from marketization to growth, (ii) from growth to overall material development welfare and …

This paper explores the impact of trade on growth when firms are heterogeneous. We find that greater openness produces … anti-and pro-growth effects. The Melitz-model selection effects raises the expected cost of introducing a new variety and … this tends to slow the rate of new-variety introduction and hence growth. The pro-growth effect stems from the impact that …

democracy can be combined. Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, the … different question for the political economy of welfare, namely how capitalism and democracy can be kept distinct. …