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Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020

which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …

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Identity, beliefs, and political conflict

Gennaioli, Nicola; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019 - This version: July 2019

globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …

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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world

Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015

We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Cultural remittances and modern fertility

Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - 2024

We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...

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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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