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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2022
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066490
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Risk, Government and Globalization : International Survey Evidence
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2010
government spending can bolster support for globalization by reducing the risk associated with it in the minds of voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760172
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Fooling Ourselves : Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Levinsohn, James A. - 2021
This paper evaluates how much of the economics profession has evaluated the evidence on the relationship between international trade and economic growth. The paper highlights the basic approaches to the trade and growth question that the literature has adopted. The case is made that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221540
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Sequencing of Reforms, Financial Globalization, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability
Edwards, Sebastian - 2021
I use a large cross country data set and panel probit analysis to investigate the way in which the interaction between trade and financial openness affect the probability of external crises. This analysis is related to debate on the adequate sequencing of reform. I also investigate the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232183
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Better, Faster, Stronger : Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization
Coelli, Federica - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982938
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Political Limits to Globalization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148385
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104981
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776812
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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global : Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
Antras, Pol - 2011
I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119953
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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis
Alfaro, Laura - 2015
integration choices of firms around the world …
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