Despite the effects of the crisis, several studies show that there has been an increase in cultural production in all the most important western countries over the last twenty years. Nevertheless, the dimensions of the flows of demand are changing: the lowering of the threshold of perceived...

The purpose of this contribution is to analyse the reasons why family portfolio entrepreneurs (Westhead & Wright 1998; Carter & Ram 2003) develop international activities instead of focusing on the national market after the financial crisis. The author claims that the market orientation is a...

We document and dissect a new stylized fact about firm growth: the shift from labor to intermediate inputs. This shift occurs in input quantities, cost and output shares, and output elasticities. We establish this fact using German firm-level data and replicate it in administrative firm data...

In this paper, we assess the recent economics literature on collective bargaining. Despite a declining trend in the OECD in coverage and especially union membership, a large share of formal workers around the world are still covered by collective bargaining agreements. We describe the...

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a common strategy for public health organizations around the world has been to launch interventions via advertising campaigns on social media. Despite this ubiquity, little has been known about their average effectiveness. We conduct a large-scale...

Stores of data and information can be the most important assets of an enterprise. Once the advent of e-commerce, eroding geographical boundaries, developing of mobile systems, increasing number of web application, distributed database systems have become reality and are widely applied in...