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Arezki, Rabah - 2013

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...

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Stable and Sustainable Global Tax Coordination with Leviathan Governments

Eichner, Thomas - 2014

Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated game model with tax-revenue maximizing governments. One of their major results is that the grand tax coalition is never stable and sustainable. The purpose of this note is to prove...

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The Sustainability of Empire in Global Perspective : The Role of International Trade Patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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Sustainable Climate Treaties

Gersbach, Hans - 2017

We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...

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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity

De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013

distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …

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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade

Borchert, Ingo - 2017

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …

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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...

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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition

Davidson, Carl - 2013

worse. Globalization impacts educational behavior and labor market outcomes differently as the extent of firms engaged in …

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