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...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous firms, assuming that foreign workers allow for productivity gains and convey valuable information on foreign...

Germany is world champion in exporting capital (“Exportweltmeister”). No other country invests larger amounts of savings outside its borders.

Political trust matters for citizens’ policy preferences but existing research has not yet considered whether this effect depends on how policies are