Colonial settlers and economic development in Latin America
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol show a relevant effect of the skills of first colonizers on long-run levels of development in Latin America.
First stakeholders and success in UK startups
Albert Banal-Estañol, Inés Macho-Stadler, Jonás Nieto-Postigo and David Pérez-Castrillo create a novel data set of UK-based VC-backed startups to study the effects of the pre-institutional individual stakeholders on their eventual success.
Can “Leaning Against the Wind” moderate asset price bubbles?
Jordi Galí, Giovanni Giusti and Charles N. Noussair conduct a laboratory experiment to study the effects of monetary policy on asset prices.
How transparent reporting influences the allocation of corporate cash
Marcelo Ortiz tests whether private firms are able to use peers’ financial reports to learn about liquidity risk.
Summer reading 2020: VoxEU and VoxDev roundup
Recent VoxEU and VoxDev articles and videos by Barcelona GSE researchers
Education and the life expectancy gender gap
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jimenéz-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló investigate whether education equally affects the life expectancy of women and men.
