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Finance and climate resilience

Broadening access to finance can enable communities to adapt to large adverse climatic shocks and reduce emigration

Energy & Environment

Raghuram Rajan Rodney Ramcharan

Published

10.10.23

Coming home to prosperity: How return migration promotes economic development

Evidence from Mexico shows how migrants can foster local economic development after returning to their countries of origin

Migration & Urbanisation

José Bucheli Matias Fontenla

Published

25.05.23

The transformative effects of US patents for Chinese exporters

Patents from recognised hubs confer benefits to foreign patent holders beyond market protection, such as valuable global signals of quality and credibility

Firms

Robin Kaiji Gong Yao Amber Li Kalina Manova Stephen Teng Sun

Published

16.05.23

The cross-border effects of environmental regulation: Evidence from battery recycling in the US and Mexico

Tightened US regulations around lead increased exports of lead-acid batteries to Mexico for recycling, worsening health outcomes for locals, especially the poor

Energy & Environment

Shinsuke Tanaka Kensuke Teshima Eric Verhoogen

Published

21.02.22

Making sense of the US-China trade war

Chad Bown discusses what happened during the US-China trade war, when, what it meant - and what happens next

Trade

Chad Bown

Published

21.07.21

Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US

Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated

Methods & Measurement

David Argente Chang-Tai Hsieh Munseob Lee

Published

02.10.20

The US-China trade deal: An opportunity to reignite growth?

A new trade deal could open opportunities for foreign and domestic private firms if China is willing to open sectors and protect intellectual property

Trade

David Dollar

Published

10.05.19

Immigration fears and policy uncertainty

Indices for the US, UK, France, and Germany show that recent levels of concern and uncertainty in European countries about migration are unprecedented

Labour Markets

Scott Baker Nicholas Bloom Steven Davis

Published

15.12.15

US and EU immigration pressures in the long run

Trends predict a gradual decline in the US’ newly arrived immigrant population, and increases in the stock of first-generation immigrants in the EU

Labour Markets

Craig McIntosh Gordon Hanson

Published

15.11.16