Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870 - 1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a … crucial role by advancing monies to consignors of products all over the world. Without this form of credit, many international …. During this expansionary period they provided credit to many of their connections all over the world, thus becoming an …

. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a …

critical light on their respective potential to attend to contemporary problems of globalization. I distinguish the standard …' transformation of statehood under conditions of globalization aimed at recovering the public good beyond the international order of …

, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher …

This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …

I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …