In order to better understand why some nations are more innovative than others, this paper considers the influence of socio-historic dimensions of colonialism and income inequality. Using data from 72 nations over the years 1997–2018, we find that...

Adding to the research on the corruption and gender nexus, this paper contributes by several dimensions, including: (a) measurement of corruption across corruption perceptions and corruption experiences; (b) focusing on entrepreneurship level by...

What preferences do people have for cooperation between high and lower-income countries on irregular migration and refugee protection? Despite the incre

What preferences do people have for cross-country cooperation on irregular migration and refugee protection? While existing research improves our unders

KKB 97: Global growth has decelerated over the course of the year under the impact of high energy prices and great uncertainty.

We argue that overconfidence wrongly inflates the expected returns to a risky income-generating activity. Overconfidence thus increase the willingness to take risks. We test this prediction using a sample of small-holder farmers from Ethiopia who...

China has been exporting aid goods worth around USD 835 million annually since 2017. These material resources are distributed by China primarily according to geopolitical interests and increasingly to Asia and Africa. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

This paper examines the impact of coalitions on the economic costs of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. By estimating and simulating a quantitative general equilibrium trade model under different coalition set-ups, we (i) dissect welfare...

We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text classification approach that extracts information about interventions from news articles and calibrate our procedure to...

This is the dataset accompanying "Foreign Exchange Intervention: A New Database" by Marcel Fratzscher, Tobias Heidland, Lukas Menkhoff, Lucio Sarno, and