Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Evidence on the effectiveness of FX interventions is either limited to short horizons or hampered by debatable identification. We...

Behavior is a way for organisms to respond flexibly to the environmental conditions they encounter. Our own species occurs in a...

Finding the internationalization triggers of family-managed firms is not easy because family-managed firms are regarded as being very...

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

Public acceptability is a standard element on the list of potential constraints on research and deployment of ocean-based carbon...

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

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