This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional...

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving...

The costs and benfits of moving from a flexible exchange rate regime to a monetary union depend critically on the conduct of monetary...

We investigate the relationship of the new wave of digitalization of occupations with entry into different types of entrepreneurship...

We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments' popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of...

We use a double-calibrated general equilibrium model to decompose the growth of the high-skilled wage premium in the UK from 1979 to...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting...

This paper examines whether corruption acts to “grease” or “sand” firms' exit. Corruption could facilitate exit when it is a tax that...

Using panel data for a large cross-country sample, we consider the influences of FDI inflows, inward development aid, and immigration...

This research contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship by studying whether design patents and utility patents have similar...

The relationship between nutrient intake and wealth of poor households continues to be an issue of huge policy relevance. In this...

Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions and market-oriented intensive farming,...

When modeling medium and long-term challenges we need a reference path of economic development (the so-called baseline). Because...

A large share of global trade being priced and invoiced primarily in US dollar rather than the exporter's or the importer's currency...

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in...

Studies on social and regional inequalities in access to health care often use spatial indicators such as physician density to measure...

This article addresses how both external democratic and non-democratic actors impact the persistence of non-democratic regimes in...

Increasing attention is being given to the option of engineering the climate via Solar Radiation Management (SRM) as a potential...

Absorbing external knowledge is crucial for innovation within the organization. One way of tapping external knowledge sources is to...