Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They …

Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …

temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of … import and dissipation of new elements is seen in relation to the rate at which a language absorbs such new elements into its … how the structural type of a language might influence its rate of adaptation of the external innovations and how the …

We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor …

Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …