We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework provides joint microfoundations for the gravity equation for international trade and the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model of disease dynamics. We show that there are...

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work an the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignmenof heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...