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2022-028: Peer networks and malleability of educational aspirations

Michelle González Amador, Robin Cowan and Eleonora Nillesen

2022-027: Dynamic dependence between clean investments and economic policy uncertainty

C. Urom, Hela Mzoughi, Gideon Ndubuisi and K. Guesmi

2022-026: A chance for optimism

Jo Ritzen and Eleonora Nillesen

2022-025: Exogenous shocks and proactive resilience in the EU

Anthony Bartzokas, Renato Giacon and Corrado Macchiarelli

2022-024: Technology adoption, innovation policy and catching-up

Juan R. Perilla Jiménez and Thomas Ziesemer

2022-023: Complexity research in economics: past, present and future

Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2022-022: Sextortion in access to WASH services in selected regions of Bangladesh

Ortrun Merkle, Umrbek Allakulov and Debora Gonzalez Tejero

2022-021: Automation exposure and implications in advanced and developing countries across gender, age, and skills

Hubert Nii-Aponsah

2022-020: Harmonized Latin American innovation Surveys Database (LAIS)

Fernando Vargas, Charlotte Guillard, Monica Salazar and Gustavo Crespi

2022-019: Remittance dependence, support for taxation and quality of public services in Africa

Maty Konte and Gideon Ndubuisi

2022-018: How do firms innovate in Latin America?

Fernando Vargas

2022-017: Quantile return and volatility connectedness among Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and (un)conventional asset

C. Urom, Gideon Ndubuisi and K. Guesmi

2022-016: Canonical correlation complexity of European regions

Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2022-015: The canonical correlation complexity method

Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2022-014: Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: Evidence from Brazil

Antonio Neto, Xavier Cirera and Alex Coad

2022-013: Semi-endogenous growth in a non-Walrasian DSEM for Brazil: Estimation and simulation of changes in foreign income, human capital, R&D, and terms of trade

Thomas Ziesemer

2022-012: The multidimensional impacts of the Conditional Cash Transfer program Juntos in Peru

Ricardo Morel Berendson and Liz Girón

2022-011: Some new views on product space and related diversification

Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2022-010: The productive role of social policy

Omar Rodríguez Torres

2022-009: The reckoning of sexual violence and corruption: A gendered study of sextortion in migration to South Africa

Asleigh Bicker Caarten, Loes Van Heugten and Ortrun Merkle

2022-008: Advanced digital technologies and industrial resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A firm-level perspective

Elisa Calza, Alejandro Lavopa and Ligia Zagato

2022-007: Import penetration and manufacturing employment: Evidence from Africa

Solomon Owusu, Gideon Ndubuisi and Emmanuel Mensah

2022-006: Globalisation and financialisation in the Netherlands, 1995 - 2020

Joan Muysken and Huub Meijers

2022-005: Globalisation increased trust in northern and western Europe between 2002 and 2018

Loesje Verhoeven and Jo Ritzen

2022-004: The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium

Alessio Brown and Anne-Lore Fraikin

2022-003: Automation and related technologies: A mapping of the new knowledge base

Enrico Santarelli, Jacopo Staccioli and Marco Vivarelli

2022-002: Estimation of a production function with domestic and foreign capital stock

Thomas Ziesemer

2022-001: Structural transformations and cumulative causation towards an evolutionary micro-foundation of the Kaldorian growth model

André Lorentz, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona and Marco Valente

2021-051: The importance of global value chains and regional capabilities for the economic complexity of EU-regions

Federico Colozza, Ron Boschma, Andrea Morrison and Carlo Pietrobelli

2021-050: Giving Up Your Body to Enter Fortress Europe: Understanding the gendered experiences of sextortion of Nigerians migrating to the Netherlands

Loes Van Heugten, Ashleigh Bicker Caarten and Ortrun Merkle

2021-049: International student mobility and academic performance: Does timing matter?

Cintia Denise Granja and Fabiana Visentin

2021-048: Identifying technological trajectories in the mining sector using patent citation networks

Enrico Alessandri

2021-047: Global dynamics of Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries updated to 1950-2015

Thomas Ziesemer

2021-046: How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu M. Ngo, Klaus Zimmermann, Phuc V. Nguyen, Toan L.D. Huynh and Huan H. Nguyen

2021-045: Is there job polarization in developing economies? A review and outlook

Antonio Neto, Nanditha Mathew, Pierre Mohnen and Tania Treibich

2021-044: Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: A text-similarity measure

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

2021-043: Mobile money adoption and entrepreneurs’ access to trade credit in the informal sector

Godsway Korku Tetteh, Micheline Goedhuys, Maty Konte and Pierre Mohnen

2021-042: Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis

Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

2021-041: Financial development and small firms’ tax compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Racky Balde

2021-040: Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia

Robin Cowan, Moritz Müller, Alan Kirman and Helena Barnard

2021-039: The political geography of cities

Richard Bluhm, Christian Lessmann and Paul Schaudt

2021-038: Demand-led industrialisation policy in a dual-sector small balance of payments constrained economy

Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola and Bart Verspagen

2021-037: Does commonness fill the common fund? Experimental evidence on the role of identity for public good contributions in India

Bruhan Konda, Stephan Dietrich and Eleonora Nillesen

2021-036: The impact of research independence on PhD students' careers: Large-scale evidence from France

Sofia Patsali, Michele Pezzoni and Fabiana Visentin

2021-035: Longing for which home: Evidence from global aspirations to stay, return or migrate onwards

Els Bekaert, Amelie Constant, Killian Foubert and Ilse Ruyssen

2021-034: Economic development, weather shocks and child marriage in South Asia: A machine learning approach

Stephan Dietrich, Aline Meysonnat, Francisco Rosales, Victor Cebotari and Franziska Gassmann

2021-033: Women's mobile phone access and use: A snapshot of six states in India

Lina Sonne

2021-032: Political polarization and the impact of internet and social media use in Brazil

Lorena Giuberti Coutinho

2021-031: Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder

Alex Coad, Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese

2021-030: Social networks and agricultural performance: A multiplex analysis of interactions among Indian rice farmers

Bruhan Konda, González‐Sauri, Mario, Robin Cowan, Yashodha Yashodha and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil