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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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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2021

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...

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The Demand for Global and Local Environmental Protection - Experimental Evidence from Climate Change Mitigation in Beijing

Löschel, Andreas - 2018

In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading...

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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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The Impact of Globalization on the Composition of Government Expenditures : Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization (quot;compensation hypothesisquot;). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we … analyze whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries …

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Reevaluating the Role of Trade Agreements : Does Investment Globalization Make the WTO Obsolete?

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014

strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy prediction is unclear, however, since international cross-ownership also …

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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy

Anderson, James E. - 2017

actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

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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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The Globalisation of Inflation : The Growing Importance of Global Value Chains

Auer, Raphael A. - 2017

Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...

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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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