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Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
What is the source of the wealth of Russia’s billionaires?
The Treisman (2016) paper analyses the profile of Russia’s billionaires over the past 30 years, who are found to have diversified across...


Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022
Have minimum wage increases raised US unemployment historically?
In their study, Cengiz et al. (2019) investigate whether changes in the US minimum wage from 1979 to 2016 affected the domestic...


Nikolas Neos
Feb 5, 2022
“Institutions matter”: How Acemoglu et al. made Institutions great again
Exploiting differences in mortality rates in the European colonies, Acemoglu et al. (2001) create an innovative instrument to estimate...


Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
How does one measure interregional inequality, and where does the UK rank?
There are many different ways of measuring interregional inequality, which can make it hard to make cross-country comparisons. The McCann...


Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
Hungary’s Fidesz Constitution – a leap towards authoritarianism
In the third chapter of the book ‘Constitutional Crisis in the European Constitutional Area’ (2015), Scheppele outlines the context and...


Jing-Yuan Deng
Feb 5, 2022
Do ruler abilities matter for the fortunes of nations?
Exploiting primogeniture and the degrees of inbreeding as natural experiments, the Ottinger and Voigtländer (2020) paper revisits with...

Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
What drove Portugal’s economic slump over the 2000-2007 period?
The Reis (2013) paper ‘The Portuguese Slump and Crash and the Euro Crisis’, builds a theoretical macroeconomic model to explain...


Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022
Do financial and management constraints obstruct green investment?
The Paris Agreement was a milestone that highlighted the importance of achieving zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to prevent...


Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
A very short history of the evolution of Greek folk music
The Zaimakis (2010) paper argues that the Greek Left’s criticisms of rebetiko music about its fatalism and Eastern roots contributed to...


Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
Income taxes and migration responses: a complex relationship
The Kleven, Landais, Muñoz, and Stantcheva paper (2019) reviews the growing economic literature on the effects of income taxation on...


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