In dieser bemerkenswerten und zeitgemäße︣n Ergänzung zu seiner Principles-Reihe nimmt Dalio die Leser mit auf seine Studie über die grossen Imperien IBM einschliesslich des holländischen, britischen und amerikanischen IBM und rückt den ?grossen Zyklus?, der die Erfolge und Misserfolge...

A few years ago, Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before: huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies. Here Dalio brings readers along for his study of the...

The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...