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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834362
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Globalisation and the Decoupling of Inflation from Domestic Labour Costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is that the short-run pass-through from domestic labour cost changes to core CPI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080924
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Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082166
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Global Evidence on Misperceptions and Preferences for Redistribution
Feichtmayer, Jennifer Elena; Gründler, Klaus - 2021
Individuals often hold erroneous beliefs about their socio-economic status relative to others. We develop a new machine learning technique to measure these misperceptions and use large-scale international survey data to compute status misperception for 241,757 households from 97 countries (24...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322781
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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor : Global Evidence
Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2022
According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have generated a value system conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test the economic significance of this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308100
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Decoupling Global Value Chains
Eppinger, Peter; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227605
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Local Global Watchdogs : Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228853
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Global Uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2021
the world output loss that materialized during the great recession would have been 13% lower in absence of GFU shocks. We … after GFU shocks, the larger the world output contraction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246469
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The Backlash of Globalization
Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Stanig, Piero - 2021
We review the literature on the globalization backlash, seen as the political shift of voters and parties in a … footprint’ of globalization. Then, we review the empirical literature on the drivers of the backlash. Two main messages emerge … from our analysis: (1) globalization is a significant driver of the backlash, by means of the distributional consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212262
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Globalisation and the Decoupling of Inflation from Domestic Labour Costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is that the short-run pass-through from domestic labour cost changes to core CPI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213776