Articles

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Using Preferences to Promote LDC Exports: A Canadian Success Story? (with Marc Bacchetta and Matthias Helble), Journal of World Trade (2009)

The contribution of non–reciprocal preference schemes to least–developed countries (LDC) export performance is a topic...

 

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Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help? (with Olivier Cadot and Marcelo Olarreaga), The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy (2006)

This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as...

 

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Rules of Origin in North–South Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application to NAFTA (with Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, Jaime de Melo, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, and Bolormaa Tumurchudur Klok), Review of International Economics (2005)

All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use rules of origin (ROO)...

 

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Beyond the "Röstigraben": the Swiss Electorate Divided About the EU (with Olivier Cadot), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2004)

This paper analyses the EEA and bilateral agreements vote results at the level of 3025...

 

Books

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Postal Economics in Developing Countries: Posts, Infrastructure of the 21st Century? (with Joelle Toledano, Laia Bosch, and Justin Caron) (2008)

This book analyzes the challenges faced by the postal infrastructure in many developing countries at...

 

Contributions to Books

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Connecting the Unconnected in Sub-Saharan Africa: Postal Networks Can Leverage Access to Infrastructure Services, Millennium Development Goals "2007 - Review": "Foreign Aid and Private Sector Development" (2007)

With more than 80% of post offices in Sub-Saharan Africa located in small- and medium-sized...

 

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First Steps Towards New Postal Economics Models for Developing Countries: Learning from the Latin American Experience (with Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos, and Joelle Toledano), Liberalization Of The Postal And Delivery Sector (2006)

Whereas a lot has been written about the postal sector in industrialized countries, there has...

 

PhD Dissertation Research

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When Main Street Deters Wall Street: Conflict, Inequality and Political Capture (2009)
 

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Intra-Industry Competition for Political Influence: An Empirical Investigation of U.S. Steel Industry Firms' Lobbying (2006)

Roll call voting at U.S. Congress has been extensively studied, but its analyses have often...

 

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Why is Governance so Often Impaired? Conflict, Stake Asymmetry and Capture of Real Political Authority (2006)

Populares or optimates? Special interests groups compete for the acquisition and further transmission of information...

 

Presentations

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Financial Inclusion Through the Banco Postal: an Evaluation (with Laia Bosch Gual) (2009)
 

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Waiting for Rowland Hill: Elements of Postal Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Joelle Toledano) (2007)

A large body of theoretical literature has been recently produced about two-sided markets (e.g. Armstrong...

 

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Economics of Public Governance with Strategic Production of Information: Four Essays (2007)

Four topics in economics of public governance with strategic production of information are covered in...

 

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Are Posts Good for Growth? (with Joelle Toledano) (2006)

Posts are very often not considered among the key infrastructures of a country in order...