transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption … for empirical examination of these issues because her legal and market institutions are generally weak, but nonetheless … exhibit substantial province-level variation. Vertical integration is more common where legal institutions are weaker and …

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for … redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past to current levels of taxation and corruption arises either when wealth …

possible by weaknesses in the institutions in these societies. Members of society need to cooperate in order to depose a …

. In a large electorate, the numerical advantage of the majority becomes irrelevant: democracy is undone by the market …

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …

, remittances, return migration, or an emigration 'lottery'. Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods …

In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor …

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …