In the past few years, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a pivotal geostrategic arena against the backdrop of China's growing power and influence. As the United States and other Western countries have deepened their own strategic engagement in the region, IR scholars and regional experts...

1. I develop a two-city model to explain a new stylized fact: high-income cities specialize in income-elastic sectors. The model has heterogeneous income elasticities and mobile agents, and either heterogeneous fundamental productivities or heterogeneous amenities generate the specialization...

Trade misinvoicing occurs when price, quantity or description of internationally traded goods is purposefully misrepresented for pecuniary gain. It is one type of illicit financial flows (IFFs), and combating IFFs has been explicitly included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Most literature...