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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2005
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …'s decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467660
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457491
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Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
Mitchener, Kris James - 2004
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine marked a turning point in American foreign policy. In 1904, President Roosevelt announced that, not only were European powers not welcome in the Americas, but that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of Central American and Caribbean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467961
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Trust in Large Organizations
Porta, Rafael La - 1996
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472964
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Intergovernmental Cooperation and Tax Enforcement
Troiano, Ugo - 2017
Improving the efficiency of tax collection is important for development and fairness purposes. I study the Audit Exchange Information Agreements, which are agreements between the states and the U.S. federal government to exchange information about income tax audit plans and techniques, signed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453560
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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2017
Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative
Deacon, Robert T. - 2010
We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462317
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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA
Price, Joseph - 2009
Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur … levels of interracial cooperation can occur in a setting where workers are operating in a highly visible setting with strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463898
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Liaisons Dangereuses : Increasing Connectivity, Risk Sharing, and Systemic Risk
Battiston, Stefano - 2009
We characterize the evolution over time of a network of credit relations among financial agents as a system of coupled stochastic processes. Each process describes the dynamics of individual financial robustness, while the coupling results from a network of liabilities among agents. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463991
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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi - 2007
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464934