inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …

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 …