Links
to required readings:
Grossman and
Helpman, 1994, Protection for Sale, American Economic Review, 84:4, 833-850.
Ornelas, 2005, Rent
Destruction and the Political Viability of Free Trade Agreements, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 120:4, 1475-1506.
Besley and Coate,
2003, Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: A
Political Economy Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, 87:12, 2611-2637.
Brou and Ruta,
Special Interests and the Gains from Political Integration, Economics and
Politics, 18:2, 191-218.
Acemoglu, 2006,
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Part 8: Political Economy of Growth
(chapters 22, 23 and 24), mimeo, MIT.