Robert Gold
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
31 Papers
119 Citations
Robert Gold is an academic researcher from Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural diversity & German. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 30 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert Gold include Max Planck Society.
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Papers
E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior was analyzed and no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits single parties was found. But they did find small negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout.
Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms: Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use an Instrumental Variable (IV) to identify the causal effect of the endogenous treatment on both the intermediate and the final outcome variable, but not the extent to which the intermediate variable affects the final outcomes.
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
TL;DR: The authors investigate economic causes of the rising support of right-populist Alternative for Germany (AFD) in industrialised countries and find that exposure to imports from low-wage countries increases the support for nationalist parties between 1987-2009.
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The shadows of the socialist past: Lack of self-reliance hinders entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence that the experience of a socialist regime leads to a lack of self-reliance by comparing East and West Germans conditional on regional differences in current economic development.
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South–South FDI: is it really different?
TL;DR: The authors compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa and contrast it with local firms in the host country, and find that firms receiving FDI outperform domestic ones, while the origin of the foreign investor is of minor importance.