How to evaluate the effectiveness of Covid-19 lockdown policies
Christian Alemán, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis evaluate the effectiveness of Covid-19 stay-home policies across different regions of Spain.
Topic Archive: Public Policy
Towards optimal regulation in public contracting
Rodrigo Carril studies the trade-off between rules and discretion in the context of US federal procurement.
Birth subsidies and fertility: Evidence from Spain
Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová explore how a child benefit in Spain affected birth rates and abortions.
Lessons from white elephants and concession contracts
Juan-José Ganuza and Gerard Llobet argue that standard contracts do not provide incentives for firms to properly screen projects, resulting in the construction of unnecessary infrastructures (“white elephants”).
Understanding Tax Evasion: Lessons from the Spanish Housing Market
José G. Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto and Josep Raya develop a fraud decision theory and test its implications with a unique Spanish dataset.
Politics and infrastructure policy
Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto develop a model of the political economy of transportation investments.
