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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480715
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed … public good (GPG) and the second under "beggar-thy-neighbor" (BTN) policies. However, the world economy is not a global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480157
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …
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Energy and Environmental Markets, Industrial Organization, and Regulation
Kellogg, Ryan; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper discusses contributions that industrial organization economists have made to our understanding of energy markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how this literature has adopted and sometimes augmented...
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The Global Energy Outlook
Newell, Richard G. - 2013
We explore the principal trends that are shaping the future landscape of energy supply, demand, and trade. We take a long-term view, assessing trends on the time scale of a generation by looking 25 years into the past, taking stock of the current situation, and projecting 25 years into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459695
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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities
Allcott, Hunt - 2012
We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460682
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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When Did Globalization Begin?
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2000
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 … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …
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