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Post-Neoliberal Globalization : International Trade Rules for Global Prosperity

Guzman, Martín; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper analyzes frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that it is possible to have some rule of law. In the Arrow-Debreu benchmark, where there is no economic power and political power is seemingly irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free...

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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...

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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...

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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy

Anderson, James E. - 2017

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. The model nests structural gravity sub-systems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and technology capital in transition to the steady state....

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China's growing economic activity in Africa

Besada, Hany - 2008

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU...

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Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms

Helpman, Elhanan - 2006

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other...

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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?

Romer, Paul M. - 2010

Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...

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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

Huberman, Michael - 2009

The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...

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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences : Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

Iranzo, Susana - 2007

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows …

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Globalization and Inequality : Historical Trends

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2001

the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … within-country inequality, depending on the dimension of globalization involved (e.g. trade versus factor flows), on the …

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