contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …

We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic … interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the network. Today, these connectivity differentials continue to … cultural integration due to bilateral convergence in preferences and values. Both plausibly arise from network-induced history …

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …

In the pharmaceutical industry, firms frequently engage in licensing agreements to overcome innovation challenges and …