This chapter surveys recent contributions to the study of fiscal decentralization which adopt a
political economy approach. By a political economy approach, I mean a systematic attempt …

This survey investigates the increasing importance of global public goods (GPGs) in today's
interdependent world, driven by ever-growing, cross-border externalities and public good …

This article explains why decentralization can undermine accountability and answers three
questions: what determines if power should be centralized or decentralized when regions …

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continued to rise to 2019: the aggregate
reductions implied by current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to 2030 would …

What are the potential benefits and costs of issue linkage in international cooperation? How
can we interpret the patterns of issue linkage (or lack thereof) that we observe in the real …

This article surveys game theoretic papers focused on the negotiation process that leads to
an International Environmental Agreement. Most of the papers considered apply bargaining …

We study indirect democracy in which countries, states, or districts each elect a
representative who later votes at a union level on their behalf. We show that the voting rule …

We develop a model of policy experimentation in federal systems in which heterogeneous
districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. The …

Different international regimes are built from legal instruments that vary in terms of whether
they are multilateral, bilateral, or a combination thereof. We investigate the reasons for such …

What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We
review a literature on this question, providing detailed coverage on three key design …