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We study the roles of globalization and structural change in the evolution of international GDP comovement among … share of less correlated sectors in GDP. Globalization - trend reductions in trade costs - exerts two opposing effects on … therefore comovement. On the other, globalization induces structural change towards services because it reduces the relative …
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A large literature has documented that fiscal policy is procyclical in emerging markets and developing economies and acyclical/countercyclical in advanced economies. This paper analyzes fiscal procyclicality in commodity-exporting countries. It first shows that the degree of fiscal...
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Trade policy is set by domestic political bargaining between globalists and protectionists, representing owners of factors specific to export and import-competing sectors respectively. Consistent with the post-Civil War Era of Restriction, protectionists implement high tariffs when status quo...
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Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization …
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. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have …
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Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
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"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
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After decades of rising global economic integration, the world economy is now fragmenting. To measure this phenomenon …
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. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and longer-distance trade between countries contribute to this usage increase …
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countries join the world economy so that globalization increases at the margin, labor standards worsen (improve) at the margin …We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in …
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