Access to drinking water infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has increased over the last 30 years, but much of that infrastructure functions intermittently, provides water of poor quality, or fails prematurely. Financing for the recurrent costs of delivering truly safe and...

This doctoral thesis is a collection of three independent articles in the field of Macroeconomics written during my period as PhD student at Stanford University. They have the common characteristic of being motivated by questions that, in my view, pertain mostly to emerging market economies.The...