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Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?
Aisbett, Emma - 2005
Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467621
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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001791053
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An Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty
Davis, Steven J. - 2016
Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455940
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Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century
Weil, David N. - 2015
In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty uses the market value of tradeable assets to measure both productive capital and wealth. As a measure of wealth this is problematic because it ignores the value of human capital and transfer wealth, which have grown enormously over the last 300...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457747
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...
Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825525
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-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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When Did Globalization Begin?
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2000
Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471135
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Globalization and International Public Finance
Kremer, Michael - 2000
This paper examines the effect of reduced transaction costs in the international trading of assets on the ability of governments to issue debt. We examine a model in which governments care about the welfare of their citizens, and thus are more inclined to default if a large proportion of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471194