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Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather

Lusk, Jayson - 2017

Concern about declining growth in crop yields has renewed debates about the ability of biotechnology to promote food security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been associated with yield gains, aggregate and...

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When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal

Beeson, Patricia E. - 2010

To better understand the potential economic repercussions of a bioterrorist attack, this paper explores the effects of several catastrophic epidemics that struck American cities between 1690 and 1880. The epidemics considered here killed between 10 and 25 percent of the urban population studied....

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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Ellis, Jesse A. - 2011

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

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Spiders and Snakes : Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy

Baldwin, Richard - 2011

Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis

Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010

We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …

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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

Harrigan, James - 2011

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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Global Asset Pricing

Lewis, Karen K. - 2011

Financial markets have become increasingly global in recent decades, yet the pricing of internationally traded assets continues to depend strongly upon local risk factors, leading to several observations that are difficult to explain with standard frameworks. Equity returns depend upon both...

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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

McMillan, Margaret - 2011

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...

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Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion

Bekaert, Geert - 2011

Using the 2007-09 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of...

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