Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Social scientists are interested in the scholastic achievement and health of these left-behind children, in order to better understand the positive and negative…
Economic crises often result in massive job loss. However, although reduced employment has been shown to have many negative consequences for the affected individuals, it may also push them into new activities,…
We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an…
We study the short-run effect of elections on the stock of money (M1) in a sample of low and middle income countries. We find robust evidence of a new monetary election cycle: the monthly growth rate of…
This paper empirically analyzes the existence of market power in the global iron ore market during the period from 1993 to 2012. Using an innovative Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approach, we…
The OECD's Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR), which requires large multinational companies to submit a country-by-country report to the tax authorities, was already the subject of controversial debate before…
The OECD's Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR), which requires large multinationals to submit a country-by-country report to the tax authorities, was already the subject of controversial debate before the first…