This study presents an empirical analysis of individual expressions of confidence in the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) using the World Values Survey-Wave 7 data. The main hypothesis tested is that confidence in each institution is positively associated with alignment...

This paper employs an extensive household survey data set covering a wide range of transition countries to empirically characterize real estate ownership of households. The types of dwellings, housing tenure (own vs rent), second home and land ownership, and mortgage prevalence by household...

Strategic asset seeking foreign direct investment has undergone tremendous growth over the past decade. This paper first attempts to evaluate the location choice of such investments in Europe. We find that Chinese companies target strategic assets in Europe. The paper then moves to understand...

FDI data has, until recently, mostly been recorded on a bilateral basis between the immediate origin and destination of the investor. This makes the use of such data problematic for understanding MNE activity because: (i) MNEs frequently transit capital via intermediary jurisdictions and (ii)...

We investigate the relationship between accumulated experience completing wind power projects and the cost of installing wind projects in the U.S. from 2001-2015. Our modeling framework disentangles accumulated experience from input price changes, scale economies, and exogenous technical change;...