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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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of the largest 50 economies in the world, a reduction in entry costs all the way to the U.S. level leads to an average …
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We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export...
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tariff, which comprise one-quarter of the countries in the world …
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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 …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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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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This paper examines the effect of reduced transaction costs in the international trading of assets on the ability of governments to issue debt. We examine a model in which governments care about the welfare of their citizens, and thus are more inclined to default if a large proportion of their...
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