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This paper analyzes the concept of municipal bankruptcy in a comparative framework with commercial bankruptcy. Because of significant institutional differences between the two forms of corporation, we argue that it is impossible to construct a bridge between them.

A broad look at export competitiveness of the Dominican Republic, where I contribute with a perspective on special economic zones.

In Swedish. We perform a literature review of the research on how some counties have pursued efficiency enhancing welfare reforms. We find several clear findings of the political, bureacratic, and economic prerequisites for successful reforms.

This paper presents export processing zones (EPZs) as a rent-seeking tool with the appearance of a development policy. My model indicates that EPZs do not benefit an economy via backward linkages but through marginal improvements to a country’s trade regime.

The purpose of this paper is to show how special economic zones (SEZs) can be applied to refugee camps. Zones are powerful tools for investors to act like institutional entrepreneurs, who promote institutional reform by pursuing exemptions from government constraints and taxes or by advocating for reform. Refugee SEZs (R-SEZs) would similarly allow for institutional entrepreneurs to promote broader immigration reform.