Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of … simultaneous continental trade blocs, an open regionalism in which trade blocs undertake relatively modest external liberalization …

lower than under the MFN status quo. Estimates from the gravity model suggest the world system may already be in the super …

How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory … sector-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country's own … engendered by globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing …

In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …

exporter and importer, their direct distance, geographic positions relative to the rest of the world and a possible linguistic …

Using the gravity model, we find evidence of three continental trading blocs: the Americas, Europe and Pacific Asia …. Krugman has supplied an argument against a three-bloc world, assuming no transport costs, and another argument in favor …