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Labor unions, globalization, and mercantilism
Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009
We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model … bargaining above a given minimum wage promotes mercantilist behavior of developed countries. -- globalization : product cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923503
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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A simple method to quantify the ex-ante effects of "deep" trade liberalization and "hard" trade protection
Larch, Mario; Tan, Shawn W.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and the "hard" effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator variables for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599928
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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528971
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The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003
This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514131
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Trade openness and growth : a network-based approach
Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021
’s level of integration in the world economy through the full architecture of its second, third, and all other higher …-order connections in the world trade network. We apply our methodology to a sample of 204 countries spanning the period from 1962 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625802
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285497
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Landlockedness and economic development : analyzing subnational panel data and exploring mechanisms
Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017
This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750132
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On the relationship between trade openness and government size
Farhad, Mohammad; Jetter, Michael - 2019
(accounting for approximately 96 percent of world population) from 2000-2016 is consistent with this hypothesis. Exploring areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103413