• Occupations that are highly cognitive, non-physical, and low in social interaction - typically higher-skill white-collar roles such as data analysts, software developers, and translators - turn out to be highly AI-exposed • Occupations requiring manual dexterity or intensive interpersonal...

In August 2025, the European Union and the United States announced that they had agreed on a "Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade". The Framework Agreement remains vulnerable due to unresolved conflicts over the EU's treatment of US service providers, however. This...

In this paper we use comprehensive historic firm level data for 1925 to 1938 to estimate productivity spillovers from Japanese textile companies' affiliates in China (Zaikabo) to local cotton producers in China. We geo-localized firms in order to capture the important role of distance in...

• Around 60% of Irish net exports to US are pharma products. • A 200% US tariff would devastate all EU exports, not just Ireland's. • Irish business leaders we interviewed are confident that pharma's competitiveness will ensure its survival

Trade in services is an important component of international trade and is becoming increasingly more important with growth rates exceeding the rates with which goods trade increases. This is also true in the bilateral U.S. - EU relationship: Trade in services, and especially trade in digitally...

This paper uses the Brexit referendum in 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the effect of an exogenous negative shock to globalization on executive compensation for German companies listed in the DAX and MDAX stock indices. We show that it matters whether they work for firms...