Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The seven largest emerging markets accounted for almost all the increase in global consumption of metals, and two-thirds of the increase in energy consumption over this period. As...

This paper assesses the international comovement of gross capital inflows and outflows using a two-level factor model. Among advanced and emerging countries, capital flows exhibit strong commonality: common (global and country group-specific) factors account, on average, for close to half of...

The regional books that provided detailed estimates of distortion in developing economies are all country focused. While they include commodity details for their particular country, they are not able to provide an overview for developing countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the...

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of...

The gambling industry’s corporate structure in a partially liberalised market -- State-owned gambling operation in global competitive environment -- The establishment and strategies of gambling providers in French-speaking Africa: the case of Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) -- Where does the gambling...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: MNEs and Multinational Corporate Governance -- Chapter 3: Theoretical Framework for Multinational Corporate Governance -- Chapter 4: Multinational Corporate Governance – A Network Governance Framework -- Chapter 5: Foreign Subsidiary Governance -- Chapter...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: An Agricultural Household Model with Tariffs -- Chapter 3: Data and Estimation -- Chapter 4: Income Gains and Inequality Costs -- Chapter 5: The Trade-Off -- Chapter 6: Alternative Models -- Chapter 7: HIT: Household Impacts of Trade -- Chapter 8:...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

1. Introduction -- 2. Exploring the reasons behind the adoption of international norms -- 3. Closing the implementation gap with Transnational Experience and Expertise Networks -- 4. Local Content policies: aiding or harming internationalization? -- 5. The international norm on world-class...

1. Introduction -- Part I: Foundations, Concepts and Frameworks -- 2. Systemic Potentials for Resilient Performance -- 3. Resilience and Digital Transformation Challenges in Oil and Gas Integrated Operations -- 4. Relational Capital and Organisational Resilience -- 5. Organisational Resilience...