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Freight Rates and Productivity Gains in British Tramp Shipping 1869-1950

Mohammed, Saif I. Shah - 2003

The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … the precipitous decline in nominal freight rates before the World War I, but it also extends the series to the 1940s …. Furthermore, our new series is linked to the post-World War II era (documented by David Hummels), so that we can be more precise …

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Globalization, Convergence and History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1995

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005

spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal could not have …

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Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation : 1870-1950

Collins, William J. - 1999

variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …

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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments

Tian, Huifang - 2009

Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen, any emission reduction targets they take on should be based on their intensity of emissions (emissions/$GDP) on a target date not the level of emissions. They...

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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations

Tian, Huifang - 2008

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the largest and most rapidly growing carbon emitter, and...

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Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments : Old Wine in Green Bottles?

Lockwood, Ben - 2008

as the EU, if making commitments to reduce emissions which go beyond those undertaken in other regions of the world …

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Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture

Antkiewicz, Agata - 2006

We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the implications for global arrangements over...

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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Edwards, T. Huw - 2002

increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies both when …

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Puzzles Over International Taxation of Cross Border Flows of Capital Income

Whalley, John - 2001

I discuss the tax treatment of transborder capital income, focussing on prevailing arrangements rather than de novo design of optimal tax arrangements. These comprise unilateral reliefs from double taxation under credit or exemption systems, and treaty reliefs (largely following the OECD model...

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