This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese...

1. Introduction -- 2. Defining money laundering / Elena Madalina Busuioc -- 3. Ways of quantifying money laundering -- 4. Measuring money laundering for Australia and the Netherlands / with Melissa Siegel and Joras Ferwerda -- 5. How money is being laundered / with Madalina Busuioc -- 6. Short...

The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation...