Around three quarters of Bitcoin transactions take place off-chain. Despite their significance, the vast majority of the empirical literature on cryptocurrencies focuses on on-chain transactions. This paper presents one of the first analysis of both on- and off-chain demand- and supply-side...

Background: In the current context of increasing competitiveness and complexity in markets, accurate demand forecasting has become a key element for efficient production planning. Methods: This study implements recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to predict raw material demand using historical...

This paper studies the relationship between market concentration and aggregate productivity when firmlevel demand emerges from past marketing investments. Granular firms may invest in demand both to complement their productivity and to amplify market power-this second force can create persistent...

The empirical migration literature often identifies the labor market effects of immigration using exogenous variation of migration concentration across sectors. However, this approach differences out macroeconomic effects which occur in all sectors. We apply macroeconomic time series methods to...

We study why free public health insurance in India exhibits persistently low utilisation despite high out of pocket health expenses. Using panel data from the Young Lives Survey and the rollout of the Arogyasri scheme in Andhra Pradesh, we distinguish the roles of informal financial and...

We study why free public health insurance in India exhibits persistently low utilisation despite high out of pocket health expenses. In the context of the Arogyasri program in Andhra Pradesh, we distinguish the roles of informal financial and information networks in shaping adoption....