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According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …
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This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …
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Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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This paper shows that endogenous adjustments in the composition of labor supplies magnify the effects of changes in commodity prices on the measured skill premium under quite plausible conditions. These composition effects arise from decisions of individuals with heterogeneous inherent abilities...
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We empirically assess the influence of globalization on social institutions that govern female subjugation and gender … equality in developing countries. Observing the progress of globalization for almost one hundred developing countries at ten … year intervals starting in 1970, we find that economic and social globalization exert a decidedly positive influence on the …
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This study empirically assesses the influence of globalization on the institutional root causes of gender equality as … measured by the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). We capture the multifaceted concept of globalization with … the KOF index and its three sub-indices which measure the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization …
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This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …
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We examine the effects that a country’s net capital flows have on the (border) prices that a country pays for its imports of goods. Using data from 2000 to 2009 for 11 euro area countries we utilize a pricing-to-market specification to study exporters’ pricing behavior to the rest of the...
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We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines’ governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country’s vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … ‘golden straitjacket’. However, globalization may also ‘overdiscipline’ governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …
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distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries’ growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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