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Global Service Efficiency and the Role of Special and Differential Based Negotiation
Yao, Daqing - 2016
much lower than agriculture and industry. Despite the progress in world commodity market integration in past half century …, the world service market remains highly segmented, which can be seen clearly from the World Bank's STRD index and CHB …
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Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2007
This paper studies the link between volatility, labor market flexibility, and international trade. International differences in labor market regulations affect how firms can adjust to idiosyncratic shocks. These institutional differences interact with sector specific differences in volatility...
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The Factory-Free Economy : Outsourcing, Servitization and the Future of Industry
Fontagné, Lionel - 2017
The shift towards a "factory-free" economy has drawn the attention of policy makers in North America and Europe. Some politicians have articulated alarming views, initiating mercantilist or 'beggar-thy-neighbour' cost-competitiveness policies. Yet companies that concentrate research and design...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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