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Do cash transfers trigger investments? : evidence from Peru

Cirillo, Cristina; Giovannetti, Giorgia - 2018

Asymmetric cultural proximity and Greenfield FDI

Fiorini, Matteo; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Lanati, Mauro; … - 2018

(The struggle for) refugee integration into the labour market : evidence from Europe

Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2018

Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives? : family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso

Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018

Life after default : private vs. official sovereign debt restructurings

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania - 2018

Global evidence on prospective migrants from developing countries

Mendola, Mariapia - 2018

Emigrant selection and wages : the case of Poland

Rosso, Anna - 2018

Non-tariff measures and competitiveness

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Felice, Giulia; Forlani, Emanuele - 2018

Here lives a wealthy man : price rigidity and predictability in luxury housing markets

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2018 - Revised: February 20, 2018

We use novel and unique data to study the effect of price changes in the market for luxury and middle class homes. We find that luxury home sales respond less to price changes than the middle-class home sales; in the market for luxury homes, past prices affect current prices; luxury home prices...

Is brain drain passé? : the optimal timing of migration

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to migration, in the human capital acquired in the home...