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Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam
Edmonds, Eric - 2002
Vietnam in the 1990s. Greater market integration, at least in this case, appears to be associated with less child labor. Our …
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
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 Tobin's "q" does not rise after internationalization, even relative … to firms that do not internationalize. Instead, "q" rises significantly one year before internationalization and during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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Multinational Expansion in Time and Space
Garetto, Stefania - 2019
and space and for predicting the effects of globalization shocks …
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International Comovement in the Global Production Network
Huo, Zhen - 2019
This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479927
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Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Globalization
Lind, Nelson - 2018
We review a recent body of theoretical literature that links the creation and diffusion of knowledge and technology to openness. We analyze two channels through which the spread of new ideas occurs: international trade and the activity of multinational firms (multinational production). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480722
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462198
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463073
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Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education
Bound, John - 2009
The representation of a large number of students born outside the United States among the ranks of doctorate recipients from U.S. universities is one of the most significant transformations in U.S. graduate education and the international market for highly-trained workers in science and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463855
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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
Keller, Wolfgang - 2008
This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464021
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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
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 Tobin's "q" does not rise after internationalization, even relative … to firms that do not internationalize. Instead, "q" rises significantly one year before internationalization and during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467664