Globalization improves the prospects for developing countries (DCs) to catch up economically with industrialized … countries. Depending on economic policies with respect to openness and factor accumulation, globalization may increase capital … world economy. Nevertheless, many observers draw an overly pessimistic picture of the perspectives of DCs in the era of …

that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …

be integrated into the coffee global value chain (GVC) and thus can better reap the globalization benefits. The empirical …