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Aidt, Toke (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

The paper analyzes whether the political regime of a country influences its involvement in international trade. Firstly, we develop a theoretical model that predicts that autocracies trade less than democracies. Secondly, we test the predictions of the model empirically using a panel of more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764029

Global technology cycles and local economic performance

Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279279

The effects of economic globalisation and ethnic fractionalisation on redistribution

Pleninger, Regina; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic fractionalisation. In highly fractionalised countries, powerful ethnicities are able to extract globalisation-induced benefits, whereas their governments face substantial political...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130069

The "forgotten" middle class : an analysis of the effects of globalisation

Pleninger, Regina; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

This paper studies the effects of globalisation on the income share of the middle class. Our findings suggest that globalisation, proxied by the KOF Economic Globalisation Index, reduces the income share of the middle class. The income share of the poorest 20% also drops due to globalisation,...

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The KOF Globalisation Index - revisited

Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2018

globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced …

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization ("compensation hypothesis"). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze … whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we …

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Politicized trade : what drives withdrawal of trade preferences?

Gassebner, Martin; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2017

While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...

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Income inequality, capitalism and ethno-linguistic fractionalization

Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2014 - Version 24 December 2014

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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The causal impact of common native language on international trade : evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2015

This paper studies the effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland hosts three major native language groups which adjoin countries sharing the same native majority languages. In regions close to the internal language border the alternate major language is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010497513

Trade, Aid, Remittances and Migration

Akkoyunlu, Sule - 2009

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish migration to Germany and tested the model for the...

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