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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316142
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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L. - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984498
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751
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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2021
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120903
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122636
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091562
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963770
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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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