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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119015
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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research
Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003
This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to secularization thesis, the importance of beliefs and religious activities should weaken as education, scientific knowledge and economic welfare increases. That hypothesis has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118941
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Were Cobb and Douglas Prejudiced? A Critical Re-analysis of their 1928 Production Model Identification
Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2005
In 1928 Cobb and Douglas (C&D) presented a system analysis which established the first empirically identified production model, which forms the foundation for Solow's growth theory and research into productivity growth factors, such as 'technological progress ' and 'human capital development '....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119096
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Corporate Governance: Securities Market in Moldova
Fadeeva, Natalia - EconWPA - 2004
This paper offers analysis of corporate governance issues behind stock market performance (stock returns and activity) in Moldova - one of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Born during the years of mass privatization, securities market of Moldova enjoyed the support for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134942
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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076560
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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries
Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003
Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076616
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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GLOBALIZATION AND GOALS: Does soccer show the way?
Milnaovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
foreign clubs. This provides an example as how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalization can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125704
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A TALE OF TWO “GLOBALIZATIONS”: CAPITAL FLOWS FROM RICH TO POOR IN TWO ERAS OF GLOBAL FINANCE
Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005
globalization. The paper extends recent research on the developmental effects of international financial integration, long …-term trends in capital mobility and “globalization in historical perspective”. Analyzing the patterns of international financial … a central element of 19th century financial globalization, but plays only a minor role today. The Lucas paradox of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125830
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The Empire Effect: Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913
Ferguson, Niall; Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005
conclude that these findings have important implications for the current globalization debate: lacking jurisdictional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125839