“...SUMMARY A pandemic is not only a biological event and a public health disaster, but it also generates impacts that are worth understanding from economic,...”

“...We analyze the impact of natural disasters experienced in the early life of central bankers to assess their reaction to present‐day similar events. We use a...”

“...Behavioral interventions in general, and nudges in particular have become in recent years a popular (soft) regulatory instrument all around the world. Despite...”

“...To combat negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world support vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper...”

“...SUMMARY After a decade of correlational research, this study attempts to measure the causal impact of (general) smartphone use on educational performance. To...”

“...SUMMARY Arthur Denzau and Douglass North’s paper “Shared Mental Models: Ideologies and Institutions” seeks to explain differences in economic performance...”

“...While the association between economic freedom and long‐term economic growth has been well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional...”

“...I examine the role of party dominance on elected politicians’ career path. Politicians’ career is divided between political and technical or administrative...”

“...The political geography of central government debt has hardly been investigated. We propose a method for calculating implicit interregional transfers stemming...”

“...SUMMARY This paper exploits the presence of Congressional experience in US governors that permits the identification of the relationship between political...”