reveals that small scale factor models out-perform large scale models in factor estimation and forecasting for high levels of …

In this Paper, I explore the relationship between native language and use of the Internet and examine whether English … is likely to retain its first-mover advantage of a large installed base of English language websites. I study this issue … that English language websites are less of a barrier for French-speaking youths than for French-speaking adults in Quebec …

The World Wide Web was originally a totally English-based medium due to its US origin. Although the presence of other … consumers of a home country affects production of web content in the home language and domestic welfare? In this paper, we … within a small country and thereby production of home language content. We find that bilingualism unambiguously softens …

The paper proposes a general model that will encompass trade and social benefits of a common language, a preference for … a variety of languages, the fundamental role of translators, an emotional attachment to maternal language, and the … considers minorities to suffer losses from the subordinate status of their language. In addition, the model treats the threat to …

chapter tries to identify the areas of life where English already serves as a lingua franca in the world (more or less) and … those where the language faces sharp competition and does not threaten to marginalize the other major languages. The former … argues that the advance of English will depend heavily on the motives to learn the other major languages in the world as well …

We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together … with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate … dummy variable for common language, resting on official language, would say. In addition, ease of communication is far more …