This paper lays out a replication plan for the influential paper by Klump et al. (Factor Substitution and Factor-augmenting Technical Progress in the United States: a Normalized Supply-side System Approach 2007) on using a normalized CES supply-side system approach to estimate the value of the...

The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of...

Ten years after the worst financial crisis of the post-war period, Switzerland has established a Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) framework. Under this framework, the two large Swiss banks are subject to substantial capital requirements. It is not obvious whether the TBTF capital requirements are...

Vietnam's economy is one of the most energy-intensive economies in the world, facilitated by long-standing government policies indirectly subsidizing energy prices through various state-owned enterprises in the energy sector. A consequence of this is that firms are using too much energy in...

The NEST or potential Emerging and growth-leading economies (EAGLEs) have been playing an increasing role in global growth, but the problems of their long-term growth attract the least attention, specifically the possibility of endogenous growth. The study was conducted to test for the...

This study analyzes the effects of Venezuelan migration, including Colombian returnees, on wages in Colombia based on information from the Great Integrated Sample Survey for the period 2013-2019. Both migrants and natives were classified by educational level and labor experience. Since migrants...

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This period is of particular interest as it marks the time during which the bilateral agreement with the EU on the free crossborder movement of workers has been effective. Since different...

Dieser Beitrag stellt einen Teil der mit dem Gerhard-Fürst-Preis 2019 ausgezeichneten Dissertation "On Germany and International Trade in the First Globalisation" vor. Die Arbeit untersucht Deutschlands Außenhandel von 1880 bis 1913 - dem als Erste Globalisierung bezeichneten Zeitraum....