An important puzzle in international macroeconomics is the exchange rate disconnect puzzle. Based on recent empirical literature by Mussa (1986), Baxter and Stockman (1989), and Flood and Rose (1995), high exchange rate volatility under floating rates appear not to be related to the high...

With the rapid development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such...

Trust is frequently a requirement for economic exchanges and the management of natural resources. Providing public informaiton on past actions can promote trust through the formation of reputations. We developed an economic experiment to test whether a formal reputation mechanism could...

While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward "quasi-experimental" methods in applied microeconomics. Angrist and Pischke (2010) trumpet the wide application of these methods as a "credibility...