Analyses, comments and economic background regarding the US election and its consequences.

Among 41 populist governments of the past 50 years, there are only 9 cases in which the populists left office in a regular manner. In the overwhelming majority (32 cases), however, there were irregular departures, i.e., they refused to leave office,...

Trump has failed with his campaign promises to achieve complete revitalization of the US manufacturing industry. His economic policy has not led to any substantial improvement. Even the industries that enjoyed particular protection by the Trump...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 126: Against the background of the 2019 European elections, the author notes that the Europe-friendly forces still have a strong two-thirds majority, while the EU-critical parties on the right and left sides are often at odds...

This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that...

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral...

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral...