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Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical … measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
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This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …
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depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in …
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In the wake of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, both the U.S. and Canada experienced a sustained increase in job reallocation, including firms moving into exporting. The change involved big firms as much as small firms. To mimic these patterns,we formulate a model of innovation by both...
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A persistent issue in environmental economics is whether growth is sustainable. Pollution is a key driver of … sustainability, which we define as an economy exhibiting falling pollution damages at its balanced growth path. We deduct air … pollution and carbon dioxide damages from the national accounts for 163 countries between 1998 and 2018. Global pollution …
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Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
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We reconsider the empirical links between volatility and growth between 1970 and 2007. There is a strong and significant correlation between individual country growth rates and global factors that are arguably exogenous with respect to their economies. The amount of volatility driven by these...
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a …
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