In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on nontariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading example of a

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

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

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...

We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main...

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...