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Estimating Fluctuations in Oil and Gas Investment

Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014

Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they represent an essential element of the macro economy. The overall level of activity is also crucial to oil companies, since the macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies...

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement

Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2007

This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...

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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; … - CESifo - 2015

While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its …

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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010

with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …

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Awards as Signals

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - CESifo - 2010

Awards are widespread in all countries and are prevalent both in the public sphere and in the private sector. This paper argues, and empirically supports, that awards serve public functions and economists should take them seriously. Using a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards...

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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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The Evidence on Globalization

Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying … the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al … globalization and several outcome variables. Studies published more recently identify causal effects. The evidence shows that …

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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

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