Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labor mobility, it may have important effects for labor markets by increasing the mobility of jobs. This creates both opportunities through exports and threats from imports. Is there any...

This paper studies the properties of predictive regressions for asset returns in economic systems governed by persistent vector autoregressive dynamics. In particular, we allow for the state variables to be fractionally integrated, potentially of different orders, and for the returns to have a...

Knowledge on mortality risk unfolds over the life-course and questions whether longevity risk should be hedged by acquiring annuities sequentially alongside an evolving information set. It is shown to be optimal for risk averse households to annuitize all old-age consumption already as young...

This paper bridges port governance and stakeholder theory to contribute to new understandings of changed stakeholder relations due to the building of new container terminals. The case of the newly inaugurated very large high-tech container terminal commissioned to and developed and operated by...