Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in international markets. This study argues that the ownership structures of SMEs influence their proclivity to take risks and expand the scale and scope of their internationalization efforts. Data from 889 Swedish SMEs reveal that...

In this paper I present in detail a methodology I have designed based on Hidalgo and Hausmann's Method of Reflections. The application of the original Method of Reflections (MoR) is restricted to economies with trade value of more than a billion dollar (USD) export a year. Based on my...

This paper documents the downward trend in the labor share of global income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries and worker skill groups, using a newly assembled dataset, and analyzes the drivers behind it. Technological progress, along with...