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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020
We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...
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How Do Supply Shocks to Inflation Generalize? Evidence from the Pandemic Era in Europe
Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm pricing power interacted to induce the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation through a cost-push channel and raised inflation...
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Globalization and Pandemics
Antràs, Pol - 2020
We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework …
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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...
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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …
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