The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …

convergence of the three policy goals in East Asia toward a “middle ground” pre-dates the convergence of these indices in other … known as the most distinct characteristic of Asian EMEs. Financial globalization seems to have made asset prices and …. One big dollar-zone economy that has been increasing its presence in Asia is China. However, China has been recently …

financial world is not flat because poor governance prevents firms from being widely held and from taking full advantage of … financial globalization. Poor governance has implications for corporate finance as well as for macroeconomics. I show that poor … governance in Eastern Europe is accompanied, as expected, by high corporate ownership concentration, low firm valuation, poor …

line with earlier studies, global factors, such as commodity prices, international interest rates, and growth in the world …

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …

Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …