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It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...
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This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …
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feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …
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outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through …
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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
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An effective policy scheme to overcome the suboptimal low provision levels of global public goods is developed in this paper. By suggesting a decentralized approach to raise environmental public good provision levels we take account of the lack of a coercive global authority that is able to...
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Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...
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Macroeconomics deals with economics at the aggregate level. This could be at a national level or the interaction between nations. Production of output necessarily involves pollution and degrading the environment. Therefore, environmental issues enter inevitably. Some problems that have been...
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How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...
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