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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996...
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essay examines this idea, focusing on several questions: (1) Has globalization reduced the long-run level of inflation? (2 …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index …
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The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a … positive relationships running both ways between globalization and democracy, though exceptions obtain at particular times …
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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …
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We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size … have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms. Second, it explains the globalization-skewness puzzle documented in … firms. In our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the …
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student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of …
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This lecture examines whether financial globalization is beneficial to developing countries by first examining the … to examine whether globalization, particularly of the financial kind, can help encourage financial and economic … development and argues that it can. However, financial globalization does not always work to encourage economic development …
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, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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Despite the disappearance of formal barriers to international investment across countries, we find that the average home bias of U.S. investors towards the 46 countries with the largest equity markets did not fall from 1994 to 2004 when countries are equally weighted but fell when countries are...
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