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Competition policies for an integrated world economy
Scherer, Frederic M. - 1994
industrialized world. The final Uruguay Round negotiations extended GATT's reach to agriculture, services, and intellectual property … integrate the world economy in the 21st century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013535534
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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (ed.) - 2013
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in … half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained …
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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (contributor) - 2007
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Trade policy, industrialization, and development : new perspectives
Helleiner, Gerald K. (ed.) - 1992
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When Does Trade Hurt? Market, Transition and Developing Economies
Krishna, Kala - 2002
This paper argues that labor market distortions in transition and developing economies help explain differential impacts of trade liberalization. We assume that workers differ in ability. In a market economy their earnings depend on their ability. However, earnings are independent of ability due...
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
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Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts
Jordà, Òscar - 2016
In advanced economies, a century-long near-stable ratio of credit to GDP gave way to rapid financialization and surging leverage in the last forty years. This "financial hockey stick" coincides with shifts in foundational macroeconomic relationships beyond the widely-noted return of...
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Reforming planned economies in an integrating world economy
Bosworth, Barry; ʿOfer, Gur - 1995
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Trade Reforms, Credibility, and Development
Aizenman, Joshua - 1991
This paper analyzes the role of investment policies in regimes undergoing trade liberalization with policy makers of uncertain credibility. We consider an economy producing exportable and importable goods. The economy is liberalized, and tariffs are eliminated. The public views the reform...
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Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel's Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011
The intellectual response to the Great Depression is often portrayed as a battle between the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Yet both the Austrian and the Keynesian interpretations of the Depression were incomplete. Austrians could explain how a country might get into a...
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