Alexandru Savu

University of Cambridge | Cam · Faculty of Economics

To reduce the spread of Covid-19 whilst limiting the economic costs of containment policies, governments have introduced geographically-flexible conditional restrictions - measures targeting sub-national areas whose severity depends on the virus’s local incidence rate. I analyze whether conditional measures impact transmission rates via a news-shoc...

Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? To address that question, we leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative government had reached with...