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Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...
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-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
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and space and for predicting the effects of globalization shocks …
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A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
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We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization …. This mechanism works regardless of factor endowment differences, so we provide an explanation for why globalization and …
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This paper finds that globalization is contributing to the rapid increase in executive compensation over the last few … executives at firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities …. Overall, these results indicate that globalization has played a more central role in the rapid growth of executive …
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, labor and "managers", each with a distribution of ability levels. Production combines a manager of some type with a group of …
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examining R&D internationalization within a newly-industrializing economy, a prime example of which is Taiwan, and focuses … the literature on R&D internationalization and globalization, based upon which we emphasize the significance of first … corporate R&D in Taiwan and to systematically examine the determinants of the R&D intensity of foreign affiliates at industry …
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Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...
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