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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150840
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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
Keller, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across borders, we focus on international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070643
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070271
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775557
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Globalization and Inequality : Historical Trends
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2021
the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … within-country inequality, depending on the dimension of globalization involved (e.g. trade versus factor flows), on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233220
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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. The model nests structural gravity sub-systems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and technology capital in transition to the steady state....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948432
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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122214
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2013
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091942
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2013
This paper provides a historical look at how the multilateral trading system has coped with the challenge of shocks and shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and political conflicts. By shifts we mean slow-moving,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092123
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772728