We offer a model inwhich lenders differ in wealth endowments and choose the quality of information which they use in the process of foreign lending. We trace the effects of foreign and domestic interest rates, quality of information, quality of the pool of lending opportunities, etc. on the...

The large-scale of downsizings of the 1990s has renewed interest in the wage losses of displaced workers. This study uses administrative data to follow 833,004 workers in California between 1989 and 1994, providing estimates of the extent of wage losses associated with the recent downsizings....

During the past two decades, an intriguing contrast arose in unemplyments of the US and European countries. Unemployment raets have hovered around two totally different levels across the Atlantic (Bean 1994). From the viewpoint of applied reserach and policy, such differences among countries are...

Transnationalism has two interpretations. In the first one, transnationalism refers to some combination of plural-civic memberships , economic involvements, social networks, and cultural identities reaching across and linking people and institutions in two or more nation-states in diverse,...