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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773083
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COVID-19 Severity : A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Millimet, Daniel; Parmeter, Christopher - 2021
Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been underreported, perhaps vastly so. Here, we present an econometric strategy to estimate the true...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246031
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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315031
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Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
Wunnava, Phani V.; Leiter, Daniel - 2021
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325004
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136032
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136491
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012
technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform : Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
Holzmann, Robert - 2012
Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099759