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Geography Rules Too! Economic Development and the Geography of Institutions
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different light on these determinants. We use spatial econometrics to analyse the importance of the...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075958
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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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The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Shadow Economy in Egypt
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2017
This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …
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