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Research & Insights

We contribute to a number of studies and global research on competitiveness.

Research & Insights

We contribute to a number of studies and global research on competitiveness.

The World Economy

Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan

By Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

World Trade Review

Globotics and development: When manufacturing is jobless and services are tradeable

By Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid

Review of Industrial Organization

Competition and specialization in the VC market: A non-monotonic relationship

By Christos Cabolis, Mian Dai and Konstantinos Serfes

Journal of Global Mobility

The macro-contextual drivers of the international mobility of managers and executives

By Arturo Bris, Shlomo Ben-Hur, José Caballero and Marco Pistis

Journal of Economic Behavior ＆ Organization

The interactions of R&D investments and horizontal mergers

By Christos Cabolis, Constantine Manasakis, Diego Moreno and Emmanuel Petrakis

Countries of the future: Looking beyond the disinformation

IMD Smart City Index 2024

By Arturo Bris, Christos Cabolis, Bruno Lanvin, José Caballero, Marco Pistis, Maryam Zargari, William Milner, Fabian Grimm and Alice Tozer

Unravelling the drivers of emissions reduction: A deep dive into national characteristics

By Panayiotis C. Andreou, Sofia Anyfantaki, Christos Cabolis and Konstantinos Dellis

The Conversation

Venezuelan migrants are boosting economic growth in South America, says research

By José Caballero

The Conversation

Some nations have done well out of Russia being sanctioned – here’s why

By José Caballero

Crisis looms: The challenges facing China’s banks and their global implications

The Conversation

China’s doom loop: A dramatically smaller (and older) population could create a devastating global slowdown

By José Caballero

Davos was abuzz with AI, but let’s not forget that this is an economic forum

By Öykü Işık, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Alyson Meister, Arturo Bris, Natalia Olynec, Heather Cairns-Lee, Alexander Fleischmann, Amit M. Joshi, Sarah E. Toms and Knut Bjarne Haanaes

The Conversation

Global triggers: Why these five big issues could cause significant problems in 2024

By José Caballero

Committed to decarbonization? ‘The playing field is set to level’

By Natalia Olynec, Arturo Bris, Salvatore Cantale, Knut Bjarne Haanaes and Julia Katharina Binder

We need to stop spreading a pie-in-the-sky view of impact investing

Trader Joe’s: At a crossroads?

When Covid-19 hit the US in 2020, the grocery retail industry underwent a greatly accelerated digital transformation as consumers’ habits changed drastically in a matter of weeks. As Americans sought to avoid their risk of exposure to the coronavi…

By Niccolò Pisani, Goutam Challagalla and Inès Augier

The future of the global beer industry: What is brewing beyond the Covid-19 pandemic?

The global beer industry took an unprecedented hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world, governments implemented restrictive coronavirus containment measures such as national lockdowns, curfews and social distancing mandates. Bars, pubs,…

By Niccolò Pisani and Inès Augier

IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook: 2023

By Arturo Bris, Christos Cabolis, José Caballero and Marco Pistis

The future is young: How technology, talent and innovation can help us face the most pressing challenges of our time

By Bruno Lanvin and Osman Sultan

IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook: 2022

By Arturo Bris, Christos Cabolis, José Caballero and Marco Pistis

Cities in a time of global emergencies: Can smart cities help?

By Arturo Bris, Christos Cabolis, Chan Heng Chee and Bruno Lanvin