increasing in the second best world. As the optimal means-tested insurance, two alternative criteria for vertical equity are …

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 …

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% …

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 …

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic …