We propose a novel way to measure the rule of law intensity of exports at the goods level based on nearly 100 million disaggregated bilateral trade flows around the globe. We categorise goods into three groups: fragmented, primary and other. The theoretical literature on holdup problems...

The widely used PRODY indicator by Hausmann et al. (2007) [What you Export Matters; Journal of Economic Growth: 12, 1–25] allows the calculation of product sophistication and factor intensities. In this paper I deal with its measurement, its conceptional limitations, its sensitivity to...

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labour market institutions by developing a framework in which owners of capital can benefit from both greater labour market flexibility and better rule of law. Their choice of location of manufacturing centres can, therefore, by...

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labour market institutions by developing a framework in which owners of capital can benefit from both greater labour market flexibility and better rule of law. Their choice of location of manufacturing centres can, therefore, by...

The paper extends the literature on the political economy of labor market institutions by developing a framework in which owners of capital can benefit from both greater labor market flexibility and better rule of law. Their choice of location of manufacturing centres can, therefore, by...

Alliances often provide a collective good among their allies. This article offers laboratory experimental evidence that the possibility to vote for the exclusion of non-cooperating allies, i.e. ostracism, can be a powerful negative referendum to increase allies’ contributions to the collective...

In this article we introduce the Stata command simcadi. It helps to calculate indicators for the similarity of categorically ordered variables and distribution, respectively. In particular, it permits the calculation of the Cosine index, and indices introduced by Finger and Kreinin (1979), Bray...

This article introduces the Stata program osrmtime, which allows the calculation of distance and travel time between two points using latitude and longitude information. The command takes advantage of the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) and of OpenStreetMaps in order to find the optimal route...