This paper analyzes the influence of financial integration on institutional quality. We construct a dynamic political-economic model of an autocracy in which a ruling elite uses its political power to expropriate the general population. Although financial integration reduces capital costs for...

This paper deals with the implications of personal mobility for political participation of citizens and for the resulting size of the welfare state. We show that mobility of citizens may influence the individual decision to participate in the political process and thereby may change policy...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain over the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...