Reducing the compliance costs of regulation
In much of the world, property sales are highly regulated and expensive. Using World Bank data, this column shows that while regulators and...
Measuring human capital: Learning matters more than schooling
Human capital is a critical component of economic development. But the links between growth and human capital – when measured by years of schooling –...
Property Rights and Urban Form
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities...
US business dynamism rises
Steep falls in entrepreneurial activity were recorded in early 2020 across G7 economies. In the US, however, the creation of US startups shot up by 24...
The Role of Sentiment in the Economy: 1920 to 1934
This paper investigates the role of sentiment in the US macro economy from 1920 to 1934. We use 2.4 million digitized articles from the Wall St...
Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery
With the exception of some flashpoints in Northern and Southern Africa, the continent has been largely spared from the direct health effect of Covid...
Stake-holder Firms and the Reform of Local Public Finance in China
Since 1978 China has developed strongly using a particular form of capitalism which has relied upon close relations between private enterprise and the...
Welfare Costs of Catastrophes: Lost Consumption and Lost Lives
The Economic Journal, 131 (634), 946–969
Managerial Response to Shareholder Empowerment: Evidence from Majority- voting Legislation Changes
This paper studies how managers react to shareholder empowerment that makes the votes on shareholder proposals regarding majority-voting director...
The Systemic Governance Influence of Universal Owners: Evidence From an Expectation Document
Universal owners - large institutional investors with highly diversified and long-term portfolios spanning the entire global capital market - have...
As COVID rages, bankruptcy cases fall
Bankruptcies have fallen sharply in OECD economies because of the array of COVID-related support available to businesses, as well as imposed moratoria...
Do Gendered Laws Matter?
We use a 50-year panel of gendered laws for 190 countries to examine whether laws and legal change are associated with several measures of women’s...
Identifying and boosting “Gazelles”: Evidence from business accelerators
Journal of Financial Economics, 139 (1), 260-287
