proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interacting with production and sourcing decisions of multinational firms. In … a complementarity between the growth of global value chains and the emergence of NGOs: for a range of trade costs … trade costs, would be better-off in a world without NGOs. In an extension we show that NGOs may also crowd out investment in …

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

that mortality risks are a major source of risks in returns to education in developing countries. We show that, in the …. Uncertain returns to education, endogenous mortality or imperfect capital markets unambiguously increase child labour. When the …

industries, we show that, after correction for simultaneity bias -- though not before -- the price of oil has large negative …

applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting - more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …

transportation costs across countries and industries, the Paper first provides estimates of ‘border effects’ among EU countries. The …

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and …

This paper studies the stability of coordination between mission-driven non-governmental organizations (NGOs) competing … for donations. We build a non-cooperative game-theoretic model of alliance formation between NGOs that compete through … is more likely, the steeper are NGOs’ (negatively sloped) best-reply functions. Under the aggregative rule, the …