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A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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and space and for predicting the effects of globalization shocks …
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We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization …. This mechanism works regardless of factor endowment differences, so we provide an explanation for why globalization and …
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The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
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, labor and "managers", each with a distribution of ability levels. Production combines a manager of some type with a group of …
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This paper finds that globalization is contributing to the rapid increase in executive compensation over the last few … executives at firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities …. Overall, these results indicate that globalization has played a more central role in the rapid growth of executive …
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examining R&D internationalization within a newly-industrializing economy, a prime example of which is Taiwan, and focuses … the literature on R&D internationalization and globalization, based upon which we emphasize the significance of first … corporate R&D in Taiwan and to systematically examine the determinants of the R&D intensity of foreign affiliates at industry …
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Over the last two decades, there has been a surge of opioid-related overdose deaths resulting in a myriad of state policy responses. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of such policies using a wide-range of statistical models, each of which requires multiple design choices that can...
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Over the last two decades, there has been a surge of opioid-related overdose deaths resulting in a myriad of state policy responses. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of such policies using a wide-range of statistical models, each of which requires multiple design choices that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835760
Economists are quick to assume opportunistic behavior in almost every walk of life other than our own. Our empirical methods are based on assumptions of human behavior that would not pass muster in any of our models. The solution to this problem is not to expect a mass renunciation of data...
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