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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
Schiff, Maurice - 2010
low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141777
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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …
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Temperature and Joint Time Use
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase time spent with family. Conversely, high temperatures...
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Precious Metal Prices : A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions
Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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Minimum Global Tax : Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2023
This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...
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Globalization, Productivity Growth, and Labor Compensation
Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023
We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...
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A Dual Policy Paradox : Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2013
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
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