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Global Firms
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in international trade. The now-standard heterogeneous firm model posits measure zero firms that compete under...
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Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms
Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219328
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2014
Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2010
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences : Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration
Iranzo, Susana - 2007
Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows …
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2010
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian M. - 2010
in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index …
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The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - 2021
Growth in international trade and globalization has been correlated in nearly all countries with a worsening of the … globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a … good in different countries. By shifting relative labor demand across countries, globalization of this form could explain …
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from within China
Wei, Shang-Jin; Wu, Yi - 2021
In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …
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The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Frantz, Brian; Taylor, Alan M. - 2021
Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …
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