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This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization …
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that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks …
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There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign … its relevance well before globalization became a hotly debated issue. …
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- globalization, technological advance and financialization (GTF) - that have weakened the connections between economies and societies …
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We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...
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Globalization improves the prospects for developing countries (DCs) to catch up economically with industrialized … countries. Depending on economic policies with respect to openness and factor accumulation, globalization may increase capital … globalization, mainly for three reasons. First, DC membership in institutionalized regional integration schemes such as in Europe …
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The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...
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The labour markets in the developed countries have experienced two fundamental changes in recent years. Firstly, high-skilled workers have gained at the expense of low-skilled workers, which manifests itself in a rising skill premium and/or a rising disparity in the unemployment rates of these...
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effect of globalization is often neglected leading to implausibly high income elasticities. This paper models export demand … and supply simultaneously and incorporates a new proxy for globalization. Owing to the non-stationarity of the data, the …
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Whereas many empirical studies show that the internationalization of production is driven by falling distance costs, theoretical models of the endogenous emergence of multinational enterprises predict the opposite. This paper argues that this dichotomy can be resolved if the production process...
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