We analyze whether landlocked regions are systematically poorer, using panel data for 1,527 regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014 and...

This paper investigates the persistence of self-employment in the districts of Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave, between 1925 and 2010....

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a...

We investigate the relationship between characteristics of an occupation-specific environment and the decision of employees to start...

This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger...

While popular opinion often pictures FDI flowing in search of lowest-wage, lowest- skilled activities in emerging markets, actual FDI...

The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and...

We show that the firm-size distribution is an important determinant of the relationship between an industry’s employment and output. A...

New and emerging technologies pose a serious challenge for the future of employment. As machines learn to accomplish increasingly...

This paper explores the role of private label trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports and imports. Whereas...

Based on large representative German household survey data, we compare incomes of the self-employed with those of paid employees. We...

This study examines the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on government size in host...

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led to the...

This article focuses on an apparent conflict between the standard trade theory and available empirical evidence on factor flows....

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to...

Based on evidence from national data, Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (AER 2012) suggest that growth of night lights can proxy reliably...

We show that the impact of capital goods imports and FDI inflows on economic convergence depends on the local capacity of emerging...

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on...

We examine and compare the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on total factor productivity...

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on population health using panel data for up to 179 countries over the period from 1980 to...