This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … trade restrictions, we provide further evidence on the indirect effects of sanctions. Analysing the impact on broader …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labour …

of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose …

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags … across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time scales from the micro to the macro level. The paper uses internet … search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …