Uncertainties are becoming more and more diverse around the world, and risks and impacts affecting the healthy development of cities are increasing. Fostering urban social resilience is not only a proactive countermeasure to growing external pressures and potential impacts, but also an important...

Productivity assessment has received increased attention over the past several years. At the same time, the focus has moved from single-factor productivity measures, or attempts to characterize performance in terms of simple ratios, to a multi-factor construct. In this dissertation, I propose a...

Can fixed exchange rate regimes cause output divergence among member states? We show that such divergence is a long-run equilibrium characteristic of a two-region model with fixed exchange rates, heterogeneous labor markets, and endogenous growth. Under flexible exchange rates, monetary policy...

How did the Spanish money supply evolve in the aftermath of the discovery of large amounts of precious metals in Spanish America? We synthesize the available data on the mining of precious metals and their international flow to estimate the money supply for Spain from 1492 to 1810. Our estimate...

We exploit a recurring natural experiment to identify the effects of money supply shocks: maritime disasters in the Spanish Empire (1531-1810) that resulted in the loss of substantial amounts of monetary silver. A one percentage point reduction in the money growth rate caused a 1.3% drop in real...

We estimate the contribution of the American precious metal windfall to West Europe's growth performance in the early modern period. The exogenous nature of American money arrivals allows for identification of monetary effects. We find that more than half of West Europe's growth can be...

External adjustments during the classical gold standard – a fixed exchange rate regime – were associated with few, if any, output costs. This paper analyzes the relative importance of flexible prices, migration and mildly countercyclical monetary policy for this relatively smooth adjustment...

In this paper, the financial information provided by Fortune Magazine is used to study the productivity changes in the global auto industry during 1991-1997, including automakers from the USA, Europe, Japan, and South Korean. The paper seeks to uncover global auto industry's productivity changes...

This paper shows that shifts in investor preferences for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) attributes affect asset prices. Using Internet search volume to capture ESG sentiment shifts, we propose a novel firm-level measure of return sensitivity to ESG sentiment (i.e., ESG beta). We...