The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …

study the equilibrium of a two-country model (North and South), where countries differ in their distributions of ability … globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this …

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross--country … a holdup problem, then the opening up of trade can cause an increase in the dispersion of income across countries … accumulation that favors capital abundant countries. On the empirical front, we document the relevance of the model by examining …

concessions to the losers took the form of anti-global policy manifested by immigration restriction in the high-wage countries and …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti-global …

trade costs affect the extent to which various countries participate in domestic, regional or global value chains, and … specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the …

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income … reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The behavior of German manufacturing firms from 2002-2008 is consistent with … country taxation, which are more likely to invest in tax havens if they face lower foreign tax rates. Foreign tax rates appear …

This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of …

most to study franchisors' domestic and international operations, namely agency and internationalization theory, and use … to their domestic counterparts. We briefly but systematically review the two theoretical frameworks that have been used … uniformity within domestic markets. Further implications for future research and practice are also discussed …