economics
Global Mobile Inventors
The number of Global Mobile Inventors (GMIs), inventors moving across borders during their career, has increased more than tenfold over the past two decades, and the corridors of mobility have shifted ...
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 171, 2024
economics
Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing
Does domestic outsourcing react to technological change? We study the staggereddiffusion of broadband internet in France in the 2000s, and show that connectedfirms increased their outsourcing expendit ...
Journal of Labor Economics, 2024
economics
The Good, the Bad and the Picky: Consumer Heterogeneity and the Reversal of Product Ratings
We study the impact of consumer heterogeneity on online ratings. Consumers differ in their experience, which can affect both their choices and ratings. Thus, biases in average ratings can arise when t ...
Management Science, 2024
economics
Global Taxonomy of Stablecoins
As stablecoins address the challenges of price stability in the cryptocurrency market, this paper provides a comprehensive taxonomy of stablecoins, categorizing them based on governance, value, and de ...
International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE 2024), 2024
economics
Inside Alameda Research: A Multi-Token Network Analysis
We analyze the token transfer network on Ethereum, focusing on accounts associated with Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading firm implicated in the misuse of FTX customer funds. Using a multi-to ...
The 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2024
economics
Decoding Decentralized Finance Transactions through Ego Network Motif Mining
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is increasingly studied and adopted for its potential to provide accessible and transparent financial services. Analyzing how investors use DeFi is important for reaching ...
The 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2024
economics
Sticky Spending, Sequestration, and Government Debt
Once established, government spending programs tend to continue. A commonly held view is that spending inertia leads to unsustainable debt, ultimately requiring fiscal adjustments such as "sequestrati ...
American Economic Review, Vol. 114, No. 11, pp. 3513-50, November, 2024
sociology
The Economic Penalty of Terrorism: Increase in Discrimination against Arabs and Muslims after Paris Attacks
What repercussions does Islamist terrorism have for Arab/Muslim minorities in targeted countries? We highlight consequences in the domain of online real estate rental. Using high-frequency data on all ...
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2024
sociology
Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution
As extreme event attribution (EEA) matures, explaining the impacts of extreme events has risen to be a key focus for attribution scientists. Studies of this type usually assess the contribution of ant ...
Environmental Research: Climate, Volume 3, Number 4, 2024
sociology
Vulnerability, Territory, Population. From Critique to Public Policy
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term “vulnerable” was applied to “individuals” and to “populations”, “groups” and “countries” in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies ...
Wiley, Geography of Risk, 2024