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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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International Trade and Child Labor : Cross-Country Evidence

Edmonds, Eric - 2004

We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labor (and labor standards more generally) by examining the relationship between...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Ju, Jiandong - 2007

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …

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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - 2007

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...

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Financial Globalization, Growth and Volatility in Developing Countries

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2004

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal relationship between financial integration and economic growth....

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