Globalization – improved access to integrated, anonymous markets – is claimed to crowd out cooperative relations: from …. The aversion to intertemporal substitution, a regular feature of real world agents, facilitates cooperation by decreasing …

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … accountability, and (iii) the role of inter-governmental (undemocratic) international institutions like the World Bank with regard to … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …

This Paper focuses on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. We briefly review the effects of trade …

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 … alike. An alternative approach to globalization would focus on enhancing policy space rather than market access, and on …

decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (‘globalization’) allows … yields the relocation of the whole industry, autarchy is strictly better, in welfare terms, than ‘globalization’. It is only … when relocation is a dominant strategy for one (and only one) of the firms, that ‘globalization’ may be unambiguously …