increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to … in their exposure to knowledge and know-how. This “liability of dispersion” increases the importance of the architecture … knowledge transfer among distinct open-source projects. We conjecture that Star developers—actors characterized by increasing …

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …

The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It …

-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …

no designs that lead to both types of efficiency but flexible integration is a way to achieve both. …

. Closer integration can bring converging industrial development to the union. A hub-and-spoke arrangement favours location in …

harmonization can foster financial integration. The results are especially strong for equity holdings. It is verified that the …

differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …

integration. Other work surveyed suggests that in some industries, however, integration could be harmful, that taxing EC industry …