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Banana market review : preliminary results 2025

2026

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Does AI cheapen talk? : theory and evidence from global entrepreneurship and hiring

Cowgill, Bo; Hernandez, Pablo; Wright, Nataliya Langburd - 2026

Screening human capital based on signals such as job applications or entrepreneurial pitches is crucial for organizations. Signals are often informative insofar as they require differential knowledge and effort to produce. Generative AI (GAI) complicates screening by lowering the cost of...

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Does AI cheapen talk? : theory and evidence from global entrepreneurship and hiring

Cowgill, Robert W.; Hernandez, Pablo; Wright, Nataliya … - 2026

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The Industrial Revolution reconsidered : Hard Steps, the Great Filter, and Doomsday

Naudé, Wim - 2026

The Hard Steps model is applied to argue that the Industrial Revolution (IR) heralded a terminal phase of human existence. Assuming six hard steps, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method is used to pinpoint the start of the IR to ≈ year 1700. Once these hard steps were cleared, the global economy...

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Privacy by design for public digital money

Summer, Martin - 2026

As central banks explore issuing digital currencies for public use, a critical design challenge is how to protect the privacy of the granular data trails digital payments leave behind. While privacy is widely recognised as a goal, policy debates often frame it as a trade-off with crime...

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Work from home and fertility

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

We establish a positive relationship between work from home (WFH) and fertility, drawing on our Global Survey of Working Arrangements (38 economies, N = 19,241) and our US Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (N = 102,411). Respondents who WFH at least 1 day per week had more biological...

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Work from home and fertility

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

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Deforestation : a global and dynamic perspective

Farrokhi, Farid; Kang, Elliot; Pellegrina, Heitor S.; … - 2026

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Deforestation : a global and dynamic perspective

Farrokhi, Farid; Kang, Elliot; Pellegrina, Heitor S.; … - 2025

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Impact assessment of the Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement

Bekkers, Eddy; Corong, Erwin L.; Smith, Donal; Yu, Roger So - 2026 - Manuscript date: March 23, 2026

This paper presents quantitative projections on the expected economic impact of the Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement, which proceeds in three steps. First, we estimate the empirical impact of the host-economy investment facilitation environment on foreign affiliate sales....

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World economy in spring 2026 : Middle East conflict hampers aconomic activity

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Kooths, Stefan; Krohn, Johanna; … - 2026

The world economy remained robust in 2025 despite the strains caused by the trade conflicts and the resulting increased uncertainty and entered the new year with decent momentum. However, the war with Iran now threatens to severely disrupt energy supplies, with potentially serious consequences...

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Quantifying the trade impact of SPS and TBTs with product-level structural gravity

Artuso, Fabio; Clarke, Julian Latimer; Fontagné, Lionel; … - 2026

Non-tariff measures (NTMs), especially sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBTs), have become crucial components of climate, industrial, and regulatory policy, impacting the majority of global trade. However, quantifying their effects on trade is...

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Quantifying the trade impact of SPS and TBTs with product-level structural gravity

Artuso, Fabio; Clarke, Julian Latimer; Fontagné, Lionel; … - 2026

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From the inner citadel to the outside world : Tilgherís hypothesis and the emergence of modern man

Ponthière, Grégory - 2026

According to the Italian philosopher Tilgher (1922), the birth of the bourgeois society during the Pre-Industrial era involved the replacement of the Ancient Man by the Modern Man, and consisted of a reorienta- tion of efforts from spiritual exercises developing the inner self (what Marcus...

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