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 ...

Bahar Dany, Choudhury Prithwiraj, Miguelez Ernest, Signorelli Sara

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 ...

Bergeaud Antonin, Malgouyres Clement, Mazet-Sonilhac Clement, Signorelli Sara

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 ...

Bondi Tommaso, Rossi Michelangelo, Stevens Ryan

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 ...

Lebrun Christophe, Leroux-Fankhauser Oetske, Tovanich Natkamon, Vatter Thibault, Gaudinat Arnaud

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 ...

Coquidé Célestin, Cazabet Rémy, Tovanich Natkamon

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 ...

Tovanich Natkamon, Coquidé Célestin, Cazabet Rémy

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 ...

Piguillem Facundo, Riboni Alessandro

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 ...

Wagner Sander, Petev Ivaylo

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 ...

Jézéquel Aglaé, Bastos Ana, Faranda Davide, Kimutai Joyce, Le Grix Natacha, Wilson Anna M, Rufat Samuel, Shepherd Theodore G, Stuart-Smith Rupert F, Van Loon Anne F

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 ...

Rufat Samuel, Metzger Pascale

Wiley, Geography of Risk, 2024