Among the developing countries of the world, those emerging markets that have sought some degree of integration into … world finance are characterized by higher per capita incomes, higher long-run growth rates, and lower output and consumption …

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …

Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …