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Revisiting Domestic Support to Agriculture at the WTO : Ensuring a Level Playing Field
Sharma, Sachin Kumar - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832059
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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322726
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Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012
Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336067
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430088
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Does globalization create superstars?
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2007
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms … compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315582
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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration, and macro stabilization. This …" taxes. We confirm the robustness of the main results to IV methodology, where trade globalization is inferred from applying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285297
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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287852
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Imperfect information and learning: Evidence from cotton cultivation in Pakistan
Ahmad, Amal - 2021
builds a model of learning from experience and applies it using a rich dataset on cotton farmers in Pakistan. I test whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606438
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Social Interaction and Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Improved Cookstoves in Mali
Bonan, Jacopo; Battiston, Pietro; Bleck, Jaimie; … - 2017
We investigate the role of social interaction in technology adoption by conducting a field experiment in neighborhoods of Bamako. We invited women to attend a training/marketing session, where information on a more efficient cooking stove was provided and the chance to purchase the product at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816750
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Peeing out of poverty? Human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households
Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013
demographic, economic and farming data from 618 households in southern Mali, of which 155 benefitted from an ecological sanitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321381