This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …

attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … more traditional electoral issues, such as trade barriers, work. Focusing on the anti-globalization Swedish Democrats, we … line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …

countries to make their labour markets more flexible. While these phenomena may increase the efficiency costs of existing …

, those directly involved with international markets show better recovery than the ones that were indirectly involved. These … presence of lockdowns and uncertainty. These firms swiftly digitalized, introduced new products and changed their markets and … therefore facilitate global linkages by providing information on potential markets and products, by making production flexible …

We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use … investigate the ”global” determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as … globalization shocks in a way which is closely linked to the skill structure of these shocks. Imports of low-skill labor intensive …

agricultural sector on international markets. We show that at the symmetric equilibrium under free trade, restrictions on … when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is … incomplete under free trade because of the decrease in land productivity. Pesticides allow farmers to reduce these biodiversity …