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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...
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Monopolistic Competition, Optimum Product Diversity, and International Trade - the Role of Factor Endowment and Factor Intensities
Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021
In this paper we revisit the influential theory of monopolistic competition and optimum product variety as developed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215667
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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267052
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The Global Effects of COVID-19-Induced Uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14% …
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The Better Route to Global Tax Coordination : Gradualism or Multilateralism?
Konrad, Kai A. - 2019
In the context of international tax coordination incomplete information is one of the well-known frictions that can lead to bargaining failure and might explain a lack of observed coordination. We consider international negotiations about tax coordination under complete and incomplete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892184
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Globalization, Time-Preferences, and Populist Voting
Aronsson, Thomas - 2020
Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics … model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs … and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient individuals may reject further globalization if they are subject to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826005
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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892047
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Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization
Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca - 2023
We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260701
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837986
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An elementary theory of global supply chains
Costinot, Arnaud; Vogel, Jonathan E.; Wang, Su - 2011
This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number …
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