Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …

governments took longer to introduce policy interventions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. These results imply that the …

employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of … mergers. Cross-border Mamp;A is privately and socially more attractive than domestic mergers. National competition policy may …

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …

provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price … of a painting than standard factors, such as medium and size, (2) the opinion of art experts seems to be of limited use …;), although (4) there is strong evidence in our data for the declining price anomaly, or quot;afternoon effect.quot …