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European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
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Modern globalization (which includes free flows of trade and factors of production across frontiers, stable rates of … cities against rogue states and terrorism) are among the public goods provided for the world economy as a whole are … significant public goods for the international order has been degraded in this paper into theory without history. In short the …
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affected by disputes with China, and is different from the diffusion behaviours of the offshore US dollar, euro, British pound …
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In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...
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We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, voters identify with the social group whose … globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …
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World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that have not traded with each other in the past...
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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 …
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For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
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