Research roundup: Holiday reading 2020
Recent VoxEU contributions by Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors
How Colombian firms responded to new apprenticeship regulations
Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, and Arthur Seibold investigate firm responses to apprenticeship programs and how firms can be effectively incentivized to train apprentices.
Bidding for the better jobs: gender differences in competitiveness
Andrej Angelovski, Jordi Brandts, and Werner Güth conduct a novel experiment in which men and women obtain ranked positions in stylized hierarchies by bidding against each other.
Optimal merger policy with financially constrained start-ups
Chiara Fumagalli, Massimo Motta and Emanuele Tarantino study the effects of acquiring potential competitors and the optimal policy for regulating such mergers.
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.
