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Financial Development and Inequality in the Global Economy
von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
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Complex Financial Networks and Systemic Risk : A Review
Bougheas, Spiros - 2014
In this paper we review recent advances in financial economics in relation to the measurement of systemic risk. We start by reviewing studies that apply traditional measures of risk to financial institutions. However, the main focus of the review is on studies that use network analysis paying...
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At Your Service! The Role of Tax Havens in International Trade with Services
Hebous, Shafik - 2015
trademarks) and headquarter services (administration, management and advertising) partly reflects mispriced affiliate trade …
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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp - 2009
Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
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Where is the Value Added? Trade Liberalization and Production Networks
Aichele, Rahel - 2019
-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902861
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How National and International Financial Development Affect Industrial R&D
Maskus, Keith E. - 2013
We examine the impacts of both domestic and international financial market development on R&D intensities in 22 manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries for the period 1990-2003. We take account of such industry characteristics as the need for external financing and the amount of tangible...
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Financial Development and Income Inequality
Jauch, Sebastian - 2012
We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of up to 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as a measure of financial development, our results reject theoretical models predicting a...
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
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Why Countries Differ in Thin Capitalization Rules : The Role of Financial Development
Mardan, Mohammed - 2015
In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms' possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...
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