Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...

This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms’ attitudes. Firms’ beliefs, which express their...

China's rapid overall growth since 1978 masks significant differences in relative economic performance across its provinces. This paper finds that, while per capita income of poor provinces are catching up with those in the rich, the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...

From previous studies, the effects of expenditure on economic growth appear to provide mixed results. Despite this uncertainty, theory suggests that expenditure induce growth. In Kenya, economic growth has been fluctuating despite the devolved expenditure increasing over time. It is against this...

It is important to understand the growth process under way in China. However, analyses of Chinese growth became increasingly more difficult after the real GDP doubling target was announced in 2012 and the official real GDP statistics lost their fluctuations. With a dataset covering 31 Chinese...

Wie widerstandsfähig zeigen sich Regionen im Hinblick auf verschiedene exogene Schocks? In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, welche Faktoren dafür verantwortlich sein können, dass sich Regionen unterschiedlich gut von Schocks erholen. Anhand der Finanzkrise, der Naturkatastrophe Sturm...

El libro Finanzas y Banca Pública en el siglo XXI: Propuestas desde la Economía Española ofrece una reflexión comparada sobre el rol de la banca pública y las instituciones en la economía mundial, haciendo hincapié en el extraordinario esfuerzo desplegado en la reciente pandemia Covid-19....