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Conventional wisdom has it that global financial markets were as well integrated in the 1890s as in the 1990s, but that it took several post-war decades to regenerate the connections that existed before 1914. This view has emerged from a variety of tests for world financial capital market...
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We explore the different factors that drive expected returns in world markets. Our research offers two innovations. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset pricing models. We use a synthetic Euro excess return...
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Conventional wisdom has it that global financial markets were as well integrated in the 1890s as in the 1990s, but that it took several post-war decades to regenerate the connections that existed before 1914. This view has emerged from a variety of tests for world financial capital market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471889
to such pressure by rendering the tax base footloose. With globalization proceeding apace, the social consensus required …
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This paper examines the home country bias in the goods market among OECD countries. An average country imports about two and a half times as much from itself as from an otherwise identical foreign country, after controlling for sizes of exporter and importer, their direct distance, geographic...
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years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …
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The paper argues that many of the exaggerated claims that globalization has been an important factor in lowering … inflation in recent years just do not hold up. Globalization does, however, have the potential to be stabilizing for individual … globalization on the monetary transmission mechanism and arrives at the following answers: (1) Has globalization led to a decline in …
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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996...
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The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others to specialize in production. To study the aggregate and distributional implications of this phenomenon, we develop a quantifiable general equilibrium model of trade and MP....
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An indexed unit of account is a money analogue, used to express prices; the unit's" purchasing power is defined by an index. Indexed units of account are not true money in that" they are not used as a medium of exchange. The first successful indexed unit of account Unidad de Fomento (UF) has...
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