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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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The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
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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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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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, 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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supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored production brings elements that took Korea and Taiwan decades to develop …
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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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Behavioral economics lacks empirical evidence on some foundational empirical questions. We adapt standard elicitation methods to measure multiple behavioral factors per person in a representative U.S. sample, along with financial condition, cognitive skills, financial literacy, classical...
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We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to...
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