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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas - 2019

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data

Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

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Global Innovation Contests

Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while …

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Crypto Trading and Bitcoin Prices : Evidence from a New Database of Retail Adoption

Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Doerr, Sebastian; … - 2023

Prices for cryptocurrencies have undergone multiple boom-bust cycles, together with ongoing entry by retail investors. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail use of crypto exchange apps at daily frequency for 95...

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The Pandemic, Cash and Retail Payment Behaviour : Insights from the Future of Payments Database

Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock to retail payment behaviour. How have the changes differed across countries? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new “Future of Payments” database on retail payment behaviour for up to 95 countries over...

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