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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480715
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461981
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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed … public good (GPG) and the second under "beggar-thy-neighbor" (BTN) policies. However, the world economy is not a global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480157
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462105
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum
Caunedo, Julieta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Technology is the driver of labor allocation across sectors and occupations. Is the impact of technological change on developing countries similar to its impact on developed countries? Will developing countries follow the same development path that developed economies have taken? Our approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510559
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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...
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Sources and Transmission of Country Risk
Hassan, Tarek A.; Schreger, Jesse; Schwedeler, Markus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use textual analysis of earnings conference calls held by listed firms around the world to measure the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696435
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Dynamic Adjustment and the Demand for International Reserves
Bilson, John F. O. - 1979
greater exchange rate flexibility has not significantly altered the reserve holding behavior of the world's central banks …
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