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Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty levels in Britain and the US based on a set of...
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The extent to which households can self-insure and the government can help them to do so depends on the wage risk that they face and their family structure. We study wage risk in the UK and show that the persistence and riskiness of wages depends on one's age and position in the wage...
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Which region(s) will come to dominate the world economy? This paper develops the Global Gaidar Model (GGM), a 17-region, 2-skills, 100-period OLG model, to address this and other questions. The model is carefully calibrated to 2017 UN demographic and IMF fiscal data. Productivity growth and its...
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that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a...
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-country voters optimally elect a populist promising to end globalization. Countries with more inequality, higher financial …
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A common claim in debates about globalization is that economic integration increases worker insecurity. Although this …
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globalization along three dimensions: depth, breadth and persistence. We examine depth by studying whether a bank's preference for … country or nationalized banks from different countries, consistent with an impact on the breadth of globalization. Third, we … government interventions affect the depth and breadth of banking globalization, but may not persist after public interventions …
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