This paper illustrates the main features of the Labour Module of the CompNet dataset which provides indicators of firm growth over the period 1995-2012 across 17 EU (13 euro area) countries and 9 macro-sectors. It also includes information on a large set of micro-aggregated characteristics of...

Government-owned investment vehicles or Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are emerging as relevant players in global financial markets. Their rapid increase in size and asset range has captured considerable attention as capital flows now shift from emerging to developed economies. The goal of this...

This note introduces a new monotonicity property for sequencing situations. A sequencing rule is called drop out monotonic if no player will be worse off whenever one of the players decides to drop out of the queue before processing starts. This intuitively appealing property turns out to be...

Este trabajo analiza el efecto que tienen las bonanzas temporales de recursos sobre la industria a nivel mundial, con énfasis en América del Sur. Las principales conclusiones del trabajo son las siguientes: primero, estamos atravesando una “bonanza de bonanzas” a nivel mundial y...