Developing countries typically implement public policies that modify the market structure to
reach a specific goal. However, in this attempt to achieve a policy objective, policymakers …

Private sector plays a key role in job-creation and is central to economic development.
Governments around the world use various tools and policies to foster growth of private …

This thesis contains three essays that study the effects of government interventions in
markets in developing countries. The first essay quantifies the dynamic effects of price …

This thesis consists of three essays which empirically analyze the equilibrium effects of
various state interventions in markets in developing countries. The first essay studies the …

This paper shows that inter-regulatory competition can have powerful pro-consumer effects
in an open economy world even when the consumers have little political influence. These …

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of
public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been …

The literature on the benefits and costs of regulation demonstrates that this issue can be
explored systematically using standard economic analysis. It also shows that regulation can …

A growing body of literature analyzing the distributive consequences of regulation suggests
that regulation may have particularly detrimental effects on lower-income households …

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There is a broad consensus among economists, policymakers, and informed citizens that
free-market economies do not preclude many inefficiencies in resource allocation. There are …