We propose a text-based method for measuring and analyzing the international propagation of uncertainty shocks at the firm level. We apply this method to estimate the impact of Brexit-related uncertainty and find widespread reverberations on listed firms in 81 countries. International firms most...

Two linguistic issues are interpreted in mathematical terms. In the first section different negation behaviour of nouns and verbs is explained using the mathematical theory of sets. In addition, a hypothesis is outlined, assuming the capability of nouns to define sets and thereby enabling a...

In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...

For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (composing more than a quarter of the country's population) had living standards inferior to those of English-Canadians. This was true even in the province (Québec) where the French-Canadians constituted a majority. Today, no significant...

We all find aesthetics pleasing. Attractive people get a head start in their careers. Attractive packaging grabs our attention. Given this effect aesthetic has been an area of intense research both in psychology and in consumer behavior. Yet although we know much about the aesthetic appeal of...

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...