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Mass Migration and Technological Change
This paper studies the effect of emigration on technological change in sending lo- cations after one of the largest migration events in human history, the mass migration from Europe to the United Stat…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/12/2022
IFN Researcher
Bitcoin lacks a solid foundation as an international currency
For millennia, money has acted as a store of value as reducing transaction costs – crypto does neither
Op-Ed
Publish date 6/7/2021
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/22/2022
Kill Your Darlings? Do New Aid Flows Help Achieve a Poverty Minimizing Allocation of Aid?
In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/11/2021
Investor-State vs. State-State Dispute Settlement
International investment agreements typically permit foreign investors to litigate against host countries (Investor-State Dispute Settlement, ISDS). Yet, common criticism holds that host countries wou…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/14/2018
Exchange Rate Sensitivity and the Net Foreign Asset Composition
Many currencies, especially from countries with negative net foreign assets, depreciate during financial turbulence. Using a panel of 26 currencies for the period April 2002 to December 2019, I show t…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2022
Press Freedom, Market Information, and International Trade
Does quality information affect international trade? We show theoretically how firms, in the absence of trustworthy information, may restrict their export activity. Exploring bilateral export flows ac…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/5/2022
Import Demand Elasticities Based on Quantity Data: Theory and Evidence
Correct estimates of import demand elasticities are essential for measuring the gains from trade and predicting the impact of trade policies. We show that estimates of import demand elasticities hinge…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/29/2022
Financial Reforms and Low-Income Households’ Impact on International Consumption Risk Sharing
Complete financial markets allow countries to share their consumption risks internationally, thereby creating welfare gains through lower volatility of aggregate consumption. Using a panel of 116 coun…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/4/2022
Financial Reforms and Low-Income Households’ Impact on International Consumption Risk Sharing
Complete financial markets allow countries to share their consumption risks internationally, thereby creating welfare gains through lower volatility of aggregate consumption. Using a panel of 116 coun…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/31/2019
IFN Researcher