the case of Syria, perhaps due to a lack of pre-conflict data. This article endeavours to fill this gap by computing …

"information." We find that data and computation are strong complements in production and that firm responses are consistent with …By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter … firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU …

This short paper introduces a new database combining data on international trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and … regional trade agreements. The bilateral data covers 1980-2010 and includes gravity model variables and is appropriate for …

motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are speci…c to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …

theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is private information, only known to the donor and the donee, while the … amounts bequeathed is public information. Second, we assume that parents care about the reputation that their bequest behavior …

unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games of complete information. In this paper, we generalize their … results to contests with incomplete informa tion. Two assumptions are imposed on the information structure. First, the players …

of contagion is large, it is possible for no information to be disclosed in equilibrium but for mandatory disclosure to …

institution with more accurate information is always by far the most popular, but noisy information undermines the popularity of …