In this note, I discuss avenues for future research stemming from Besley's [this issue] theoretical approach on the interconnections between civicness, institutions, and state‐fiscal capacity. First, I lay down some ideas on how one could extend the framework to model fragility traps that...

When do dynamic nonconvexities at the disaggregate level translate into dynamic nonconvexities at the aggregate level? The authors address this question in a framework where the production of differentiated intermediate inputs is subject to dynamic nonconvexities and show that the answer depends...