This paper explores the links between institutional arrangements and fiscal performance in" Latin America. We consider four measures of fiscal performance, namely expenditures, the size of fiscal deficits and debt, and the response of fiscal policy to business" fluctuations; and two...

In this paper we collect detailed information on the budget institutions of Latin American countries. We classify these institutions on a `hierarchical'/'collegial' scale, as a function of their transparency and the existence of legislative constraints on the deficit. We then show that...

This paper examines individual-level support for trade, relates it to beliefs about trade, and measures its sensitivity to positive and negative framing. The data comes from the 2018 Latinobarometro survey of eighteen countries, in which we embed a survey experiment to study framing effects. We...