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 …

In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is … crises have been more costly in Latin America than in the rest of the world. I also find that the cost of external crises has …

This lecture examines whether financial globalization is beneficial to developing countries by first examining the … to examine whether globalization, particularly of the financial kind, can help encourage financial and economic … development and argues that it can. However, financial globalization does not always work to encourage economic development …

valuation gap for firms from developed markets increases by 31% after the GFC - a reversal in financial globalization - while …

. Financial globalization gathered force. Trade globalization, however, reversed course since the Global Financial Crisis. The new … financial globalization …

. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the "The Great Recession" and the "The … Pandemic Recession". Israel's trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …

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