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Go wide or go deep : margins of new trade flows

Erhardt, Katharina; Gupta, Apoorva - 2024

This paper aims to understand the pathways by which exporters become entities that sell multiple goods to multiple customers. To understand firms’ export strategies, we analyse new trade flows – new seller-buyer-product combinations – of individual exporters. Our first finding highlights...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...

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Globalization, inequality, and redistribution : theory and evidence

Gozgor, Giray; Ranjan, Priya - 2015

This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …

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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 …

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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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The globalization paradox revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

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Globalisation and social spending

De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003

We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...

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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...

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Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 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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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

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