The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …

study the equilibrium of a two-country model (North and South), where countries differ in their distributions of ability … globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this …

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross--country … a holdup problem, then the opening up of trade can cause an increase in the dispersion of income across countries … accumulation that favors capital abundant countries. On the empirical front, we document the relevance of the model by examining …

concessions to the losers took the form of anti-global policy manifested by immigration restriction in the high-wage countries and …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti-global …

trade costs affect the extent to which various countries participate in domestic, regional or global value chains, and … specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the …

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income … reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The behavior of German manufacturing firms from 2002-2008 is consistent with … country taxation, which are more likely to invest in tax havens if they face lower foreign tax rates. Foreign tax rates appear …

This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of …

most to study franchisors' domestic and international operations, namely agency and internationalization theory, and use … to their domestic counterparts. We briefly but systematically review the two theoretical frameworks that have been used … uniformity within domestic markets. Further implications for future research and practice are also discussed …

of political risk in the U.S. Social Security system, as well as an overview of policy reforms in several European … countries that demonstrate political risk more broadly across social security systems. For the U.S., we compute the internal …. Our review of other countries demonstrates political risk in other social security systems as well. Law changes …

policy and finds that policy makers never behaved as if they viewed trade and immigration as substitutes …