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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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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316054
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777491
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317221
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129252
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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World-Trade Growth Accounting
Egger, Peter H. - 2016
We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994081
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World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization
Zissimos, Ben - 2021
This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world … resolve. Because the world price shock may also reduce average incomes, the model provides a way to understand why the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315548
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371