The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all … developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance … and foreign indebtedness which may explain the varying experience with globalization in regard to per capita income growth …

data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …

We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The …

conditional probability of growth accelerations. This result holds across different estimation methods. Short-impact aid is found …