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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021

Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global … economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical … world. The world is not flat, and the developing world certainly is not. Still, mega-cities tend to become too big. Their …

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International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis : Is There No End to Hoarding?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2015

We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...

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The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement

Che, Jiahua - 2012

regime increases worldwide FDI and raises the world interest rate. Distinguishing three groups of countries, we show that …

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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of International Reserves

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production Around the World

Bridgman, Benjamin - 2015

We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...

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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration : Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2021

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization

Fan, Haichao - 2012

What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country …

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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S. - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …

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