This paper assesses the impact of internet connectivity and digital trade policies on trade
and welfare. Using new measures of internet connectivity, we find a significant positive …

We test the influence of environmental regulation (ER) on the location decision of cross-
border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) for a large sample of countries, sectors, and years …

As governments resort to industrial policies to achieve economic and non-economic
objectives, the number of subsidies implemented each year has more than tripled in the last …

Three years after the COVID-19 crisis, employment and total hours worked in Europe fully
recovered, but average hours per worker did not. We analyze the decline in average hours …

Abstract In September 2016, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) was officially
declared a major national strategic development region in China. However, previous studies …

This paper adds new evidence to the existing literature on institutions and well-being. In
particular, we examine how women's political empowerment relates to subjective well-being …

This paper is the first to evaluate the effect of trade facilitation measures on bilateral exports
considering intra-national trade. The measures used are based on the United Nations …

Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We
consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes …

We study the effect of democratic regime change on bilateral trade, extending standard
gravity empirics to 'heterogeneous gravity'estimated at the country-pair level. Our difference …

This paper introduces the Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) database,
which covers international trade flows for 3,124 products and 247 countries over the period …