The digital transformation of communication media has been widely adopted and has reshaped institutional investor interactions. We examine how the linguistic concreteness of investors' questions adapts to online media and face-to-face communication, using textual analysis of investor-company Q&A...

The linguistic obligations imposed by Catalan law on individuals in the framework of trade and consumers relations are not based on the regulation of the co-officiality of Catalan language in the territory of Catalonia. These linguistic obligations are not based on the protection of public...

We examine the uptake of GPT-assisted writing in economics working paper abstracts. Using data from the IZA DP series, we detect a clear stylistic shift after the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in March 2023. This shift is evident in core textual metrics-mean word length, type-token ratio, and...

We examine the uptake and measurable effects of GPT-assisted writing in economics working paper abstracts. Focusing on the IZA discussion paper series, we detect a significant stylistic shift following the public release of ChatGPT-3.5 in March 2023. This shift appears in core textual...

We study how linguistic mismatch between students' home languages and the language of instruction shapes learning productivity in linguistically diverse societies. We develop a framework in which linguistic distance acts as a multiplicative tax on educational production and derive...

This study shows the potential of culture, society, and language tourism for the sustainable development of the island of Madeira. The intention is to ascertain the level of knowledge of students in the higher professional technical course of tourist information and marketing at Madeira...

Part I. Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement -- 1. Whorfian Economics -- 2. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Linguistic Perspective -- 3. Dynamic Models of Language Survival and Language Death: The Economic Perspective -- 4. The Role of Linguistic Diversity in Economics -- 5....

Given the multilingual nature of global business, language influences international business (IB) in almost all areas. IB scholars have studied the complex influence of language with manifold theoretical lenses, but have not systematically integrated linguistic theories. Aiming to broaden IB's...

Given the multilingual nature of global business, language influences international business (IB) in almost all areas. IB scholars have studied the complex influence of language with manifold theoretical lenses, but have not systematically integrated linguistic theories. Aiming to broaden IB's...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, at the request of the PETI Committee, inquires about the connection between the "Protection of European linguistic and cultural diversity" and the "Protection and promotion of...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, at the request of the PETI Committee, inquires about the connection between the "Protection of European linguistic and cultural diversity" and the "Protection and promotion of...

This primary research proposes an experimental approach to analyzing books about urban economics. The research objectives are to understand the current narrative of urban economics in light of some popular books about city economics. I explain formal processes of text analysis using the...

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas as natives and share the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the policy led...

Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht reflektiert durch solide Begriffsarbeit, was unter Kurzgeschichten im Speziellen und kurzen Erzählformen im Allgemeineren verstanden wird. Dafür werden die in der bisherigen Kurzgeschichtenforschung formulierten und hauptsächlich nach formalen und inhaltlichen...

Dickens (2022) studies the role of trade on long-run inter-ethnic linguistic differences. He establishes that neighboring ethnolinguistic groups have smaller (lexicostatistical) linguistic distances when there is a larger agricultural productivity variation between them. Specifically, he...

Children appear to learn better when taught in their mother tongue. This finding gives rise to an argument that mother tongue-based multilingual education could effectively improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, the challenges of implementing an effective...