Similar Search Results

Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

Marcus, Jan - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286342

The dark side of globalization. The vicious cycle of exploitation from world market integration: Lesson from the Congo

Exenberger, Andreas; Hartmann, Simon - 2007

globalization) in the world. Today's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an almost perfectly failing state - although not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293417

Growing up to Financial Stability

Bordo, Michael D. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-12, pp. 1-17

context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295310

International Trade, Flexible Manufacturing and Outsourcing

Eckel, Carsten - 2005

manufacturing and product specificity of in-house production. In this framework, globalization can lead to alternating waves of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296394

Challenges and Opportunities of Small Countries for Integration into the Global Economy, as a Case of Mongolia

Nyamtseren, Lhamsuren - 2004

This paper examines the impacts of globalization on small countries, covering the main features of globalization, the …: 1) globalization is a process of continuing integration of the countries of the world that is beneficial, inevitable and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296788

Does globalization restrict budgetary autonomy? A multidimensional approach

Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999

Does globalization restrict the leeway for national budgetary policy? With the help of cluster and discriminant … dimensions are included in the analysis: tax structure, expenditure structure, public debt and budget size. Globalization as a … globalization does indeed matter for government budgets. However, substantial room for an individual national policy particularly in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297629

What Makes Foreign Knowledge Attractive to Domestic Innovation Managers?

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297945

Finance and welfare states in globalizing markets

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2007

It is theoretically clear and may be verified empirically that efficient financial markets can make it less necessary for policy to try and offset the welfare effects of labour income risk and unequal consumption dynamics. The literature has also pointed out that, since international competition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298380

The global dimension of inflation: evidence from factor-augmented Phillips curves

Eickmeier, Sandra; Moll, Katharina - 2008

We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007 in a traditional Phillips curve framework. We decompose output gaps and changes in unit labor costs into common (or global) and idiosyncratic components using a factor analysis and introduce these components...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298738

Global business cycles: convergence or decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2008

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298739

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last