Financial crime comes with high payoffs and high penalties. Reducing the risk of detection is
in the interest of anyone involved with illicit financial flows, be it tax evasion, corruption …

Researchers in the social sciences have increasingly employed nighttime lights (NTL) data
to examine a variety of questions relating to various political, social and natural risks …

Satellite images of nighttime lights are commonly used to proxy local economic conditions.
Despite their popularity, there are concerns about how accurately they capture local …

We provide new evidence on how insecurity affects firm behavior by linking data on violent
conflict in Afghanistan to geo-stamped corporate mobile phone records. We begin by …

In this paper, I analyze the local labor market consequences of multinational firms
reallocating employees across their affiliates in response to antitax avoidance policies. I …

We investigate information role of people in proximity to firms by constructing an innovative
firm-level empirical measure based on novel satellite nightlight data. We validate that higher …

Vietnam has integrated into global value chains through the establishment of special
economic zones (SEZs). This paper examines the local labour-market impacts of this …