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, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …
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structural, policy, and geopolitical shifts that have transformed globalization over the past decade. While trade has …
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We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as measure of financial development, our results reject theoretical models predicting a negative...
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We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model … bargaining above a given minimum wage promotes mercantilist behavior of developed countries. -- globalization : product cycle …
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We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A … gaining more than North post-2000, thus lowering real income inequality in the world. …
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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Using Russia as a case study and a global VAR model as a methodological tool, we analyze how heightened geopolitical risk shocks propagate across advanced economies and quantify the economic effects of these events. The global VAR impulse response functions in response to the skyrocketing...
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observations. Our results show that the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a significant fall in world output that is most likely long …
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This paper investigates the cyclicality of international reserves and their role in macroeconomic stabilization. We challenge two widely held assumptions: (1) central banks typically manage IR counter-cyclically—accumulating reserves during booms and drawing them down during downturns; and (2)...
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