Articles
Special Interests and the Gains from Political Integration (with Michele Ruta), Economics and Politics (2006)
This paper presents a formal study of economic influence by special interest groups under political...
Lobbying, Bargaining and EU Enlargement (with Michele Ruta), Rivista di Politica Economica (2003)
The past fifty years of European integration can be seen as the result of a...
Winning at Hide-and-Seek: The Tax Mix and the Informal Economy (with Kirk Collins), Canadian Tax Journal (2002)
In this article the authors develop a general equilibrium model to evaluate the effects of...
Unpublished Papers
Economic Integration, Political Integration or Both? (with Michele Ruta) (2008)
We study the effects of economic and political integration by presenting a model in which...
Rent Seeking, Market Structure and Growth (with Michele Ruta) (2008)
We study the role of productive and unproductive entrepreneurship in economic growth by constructing a...