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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
the policy drive towards domestic deregulation and external liberalisation. The paper concludes by analysing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514131
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Economic liberalization and savings rates
Mansori, Kashif S. - 2001
This paper considers the possibility that economic liberalization, by which is meant a reduction in tariffs, quotas, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two stage approach is used to analyze a panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397942
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250120
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Globalization and state capitalism : assessing Vietnam's accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo; Impullitti, Giammario; Malesky, Edmund - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717219
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Globalization and taxation : theory and evidence
Jha, Priyaranjan; Gozgor, Giray - 2019
We construct a theoretical model to capture the compensation and efficiency effects of globalization in a set up where … globalization- trade liberalization and financial openness- could potentially have different effects on taxation. We then provide … some empirical evidence on the relationship between taxation and the alternative modes of globalization using a large cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996405
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937587
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Did partial globalization uncrease inequality? Did inequality stimulate globalization backlash? : the case of the Latin American periphery, 1950 - 80
Baten, Jörg - 2002
Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution … a globalization backlash . The closing of commodity and capital markets did always take place during or 5-10 years after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409375
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Trade openness and growth : a network-based approach
Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
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