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There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita … result of the pandemic is supported by comparing global inequality using IMF forecasts in October 2019 and October 2020 …
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We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We … shock is expected to be - 29:6%, with one quarter of the total due to transmission through global supply chains. However …, "renationalization" of global supply chains does not in general make countries more resilient to pandemic-induced contractions in labor …
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We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework …) model of disease dynamics. We show that there are cross-country epidemiological externalities, such that whether a global …. A deepening of global integration can either increase or decrease the range of parameters for which a pandemic occurs …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced federal, state and local policymakers to respond by legislating, enacting, and enforcing social distancing policies. However, the impact of these policies on healthcare utilization in the United States has been largely unexplored. We examine the impact of...
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-making for future waves of the pandemic …
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This paper evaluates the extent to which the world economy has entered a phase of de-globalisation, and it offers some … speculative thoughts on the future of global value chains in the post-COVID-19 age. Although the growth of international trade … indicating that the world economy has already entered an era of de-globalisation. Instead, the observed slowdown in globalisation …
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. Financial globalization gathered force. Trade globalization, however, reversed course since the Global Financial Crisis. The new …International trade increased rapidly after 1990, fueled by the growth of a complex network of global value chains … trend is expected to endure after the Global Pandemic Crisis. There is no indication so far of significant reversal of …
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The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …
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with global factors, there is little evidence suggesting that these factors have become systematically more important. We … don't find strong evidence of a change in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy due to global forces. Taking our … point estimates literally, global forces do not seem to have played an important role in the US monetary transmission …
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This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 countries using international firm-level patent data. The empirical strategy exploits ex-ante differences in firms' exposure to countries and industries, allowing us to construct...
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