Although firms are dispersed across space and may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. Differences between factor markets, especially for labor, are stark. To pursue this line of inquiry, we model firm hiring across local labor...

This paper explores how the visions of a future global political economy might shape its actual emergence. The emergence of powerful visions themselves seems to follow a pattern of discrete steps in historical time; it follows a beat of emancipation. In Europe the fundamental note was provided by...

The main purpose of the paper is to analyse empirically the sources of technological opportunities. The analysis is based on a survey among 358 R&D managers operating in 127 different busniss units in Switzerland. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht darin, die Frage nach den technologischen...