Disasters–natural or manmade–are on the rise with far-reaching implications for
international business (IB) actors and transactions. While the Covid-19 pandemic has …

Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal
issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development …

Economic theory suggests that market economies are likely to underprovide innovation
because of the public good nature of knowledge. Empirical evidence from the United States …

Forced migration as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters may have
consequences different from those of voluntary migration. Recent work has highlighted the …

Highly skilled workers play a central and starring role in today's knowledge economy.
Talented individuals make exceptional direct contributions—including breakthrough …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the
current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva …

We study the effects of European immigration to the US during the Age of Mass Migration
(1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that …

We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure
uses newly collected data on patents issued to US firms in the 1926 to 2010 period …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring
endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high …