1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Trade and Technology: New Evidence on the Productivity Sorting of Firms

    Recent advances in trade theory suggest novel gains from trade liberalisation through technology adoption by expanding exporting firms. These theories rely on strict assumptions regarding the productivity…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2015

    On the Provision of Public Goods with Probabilistic and Ambiguous Thresholds

    Many natural systems involve thresholds that, once triggered, imply irreversible damages for the users. Although the existence of such thresholds is undisputed, their location is highly uncertain. We explore…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Revisiting the Link Between Growth and Federalism: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

    Following the ambiguous results in the literature aimed at understanding the empirical link between fiscal federalism and economic growth, this paper revisits the question using a Bayesian Model Averaging…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

    We study fair and effcient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by…