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.
Topic Archive: Regional and Urban Economics
Economic incentives and the geography of anti-Semitism
Sascha O. Becker and Luigi Pascali
Politics and infrastructure policy
Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto develop a model of the political economy of transportation investments.
Video: Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium (ERC Starting Grant)
Edouard Schaal discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
Strength in diversity? Fiscal federalism in the United States
Teresa Garcia-Milà, Therese J. McGuire, and Wallace E. Oates discuss many facets of the US fiscal federal governance the role this structure has played in the development of the country.
Catalan secessionism: is it really about the money?
Xavier Cuadras Morató and Toni Rodon question whether the increase in support for independence in Catalonia is a by-product of the Great Recession.
