This paper presents the “Ukraine Support Tracker”, which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid transferred by...

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an...

In the past, the European Union seems to have been able to tame Euroscepticism through regional 'convergence' funding. After the Eastern...

We introduce the Africa Debt Database (ADD), the most granular and comprehensive (public) dataset to date on the terms of external public debt...

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on...

Whereas various drivers of the international innovative activity have been studied in the literature, our understanding of the contributions...

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover...

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population...

China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China’s loans, also...

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We...

This paper proposes a simple framework to model contextual influences on procedural decision making. In terms of utility, we differentiate...

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency...

Tackling the root causes of migration from developing countries through development cooperation has been suggested as an essential part of the...

The latest Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) by the European Union (EU) provides an updated framework for the use of renewable energy in the...

Any integration of extra carbon dioxide removal (CDR) via terrestrial or marine sink enhancement into climate policies requires accounting for...

We analyze Ramsey optimal monetary policy in a New-Keynesian model with search and matching frictions featuring (i) training costs due to...

To limit global warming to 1.5°C, vast amounts of CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere via Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Enhancing...

Improvements of firms' environmental performance crucially determine the speed of a country's green economic transformation. In this paper, we...

The gift exchange hypothesis postulates that workers reciprocate above market-clearing wages with above-minimum effort. This hypothesis has...