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This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
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globalization and stronger protection of intellectual property are analysed. It is shown that globalization leads to more copying of … intellectual property protection has the opposite steady-state effects and thus serves to moderate the effects of globalization. …
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aspects of globalization are studied: increases in the size of the South (i.e., countries like China joining the world trading …
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What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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If the price effect of opening up a developing economy may be expected to act as a disincentive for investment in human … sometimes be in its interest to democratize by subsidizing education when the economy is closed, incentives to do so disappear … when the economy is open to trade or factor flows. …
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countries. We further show that globalization - interpreted as either market integration or increased product market competition …
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The new conventional wisdom on globalization emphasizes that reaping the benefits of trade and financial integration is … continue to pose an important constraint on the world economy. In reality, lack of openness is no longer the binding constraint … for the global economy. The gains to be reaped by further liberalization of markets are meager for poor and rich countries …
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To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms … compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, that is, the simultaneous …
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The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiraling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm-level data...
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equity changes as globalization takes place. This is because the launch of the single currency has led to the elimination of … among EU investors. We focus not only on the impact of globalization on the level of the cost of equity, but also on the …
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