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With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...
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specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …
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This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …
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The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …
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, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today. As an …Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice …
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Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...
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Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
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expected. International public goods are particularly challenging because of the strong asymmetries among nations. We identify … critical international public good. Having examined the Nordhaus Climate Club proposal, we test the Alliance/Nash Equilibrium …
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This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...
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This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up
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