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globalization. Globalization leads to better matches for all southern workers but only for the best northern workers. As a result …, we show that globalization increases wage inequality in the South but not necessarily in the North. We also study how … globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …
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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 … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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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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"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
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/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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Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … integration of markets between trading economies (e.g., the central manifestation of globalization, commodity price convergence …
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This paper examines the effect of reduced transaction costs in the international trading of assets on the ability of …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a...
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To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...
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