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. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the “The Great Recession” and the “The … Pandemic Recession”. Israel’s trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …
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In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) on trade-related international R&D spillovers. A Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign R&D estimated by Coe and Helpman with an elasticity...
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends … on whether the country exports its capital to the rest of the world or imports capital from abroad. In the capital …
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Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency union has, via trade, on output per capita. We use economic and geographic data for over 200...
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What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and measures of environmental quality. But this could be due to endogeneity of trade, rather than causality. This paper uses exogenous...
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This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a few stylized facts. International migration, in many important cases, such as cross-country differences in productivity, can be a complement to international flows of commodities....
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … policies, governed by a majority of the population, spreads the globalization's gains from trade to all income groups, even … those who are low skilled and have small capital endowments. Therefore, financial globalization of a welfare-state economy …
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The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries forced open new ports to foreign trade through international treaties. Chinese institutions of trade were abolished and re-organized under Western management, Western legal...
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and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that …
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