This dissertation examines the investment risk profile and the inflation hedging characteristics of infrastructure investments using a global sample of listed infrastructure firms. The results challenge the conventional investor wisdom that infrastructure is generally low risk and a good...

Many authors argue that societal fertility levels are a function of changing gender relations, but the mechanism behind this association remains unclear and mainly untested. This paper argues that the variation in realized gender roles and gender role attitudes influences fertility: a great...

China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new technological superpower. Our novel quality index...