Why and how foreign investment may flow into corrupt host countries? The present paper provides new evidence that, ceteris paribus, corruption may yield differential effects on foreign investment in a group of central and eastern European (CEE) countries depending on the level of business...

This paper examines the determinants of gender differences in educational attainment using data for all university graduates. We find that, although women students perform better on average than their male counterparts, they are significantly less likely to obtain a first class degree. There is...

This paper investigates whether joint economic and political integration leads to larger economic benefits than just economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union (EU), had successfully completed...