Similar Search Results

Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory

Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of … insiders' capitalism that we describe, trough the costless appropriation of an intricate cobweb of Call-Put structures, has … two sides of the Warrant Economics coin. We argue that the Warrant Economics state of capitalism has been legitimised by a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524338

Innovation and employment : a survey

Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007

"According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451834

Geographic proximity, trade and international conflict/cooperation

Robst, John (contributor); Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283434

Why are people more pro-trade than pro-migration?

Mayda, Anna Maria (contributor) - 2007

"I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003513322

Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002

Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012

In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663906

The impact of immigration on international trade : a meta-analysis

Genç, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521188

Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919

How does globalization affect the synchronization of business cycles?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745312

Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world

Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013

Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221543

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last