The COVID-19 pandemic eventually gave rise to large increases in profits, profit shares and inflation rates. A major controversy has developed among economists and in the media about whether this was largely caused by profit inflation, that is, by increases in the percentage mark-ups set by...

This study aims to bridge the gap in the existing literature by examining the impact of prevailing traditional slavery institutions and democratization processes on human capital development. In our pursuit, we conducted a residential survey in Sumba Island, Indonesia. Notably, despite...

This paper explores the regional impacts of heterogeneous fiscal redistribution policies on urbanrural income gaps. We construct market income and final income measures and use quantile regressions to estimate the impact across income deciles and across urban and rural areas of the different...