We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...

Despite the widespread use of the concept there is neither a consistent theoretical construction nor a clear definition of globalisation. Although the debate between pro and anti globalisation scholars and activists is interesting, it largely fails to address globalisation as a fundamental...

Over the last three decades the global economy has expanded in a remarkable fashion. While nominal world GDP has increased four times, world bilateral trade flows have grown more than six-fold, and the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown by roughly 20 times since 1980. The sources...

The paper analyzes the globalization process and its relationship with human development. To fulfill this aim, the nature of globalization in the current world development stage, as well as human development, are explained, as criteria to asses how the benefits of this process may have reached...

The paper analyzes the globalization process and its relationship with human development. To fulfill this aim, the nature of globalization in the current world development stage, as well as human development, are explained, as criteria to asses how the benefits of this process may have reached...

Despite the recognition that trade policy — in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin — can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an analytical framework to more effectively integrate...

Cross‐border dispersion of different stages/slices of the production processes within vertically integrated global industries (“global production sharing”) has been a key structural change in the global economy in recent decades. This paper examines India's experience with exploiting...

We study the effects of globalization on entrepreneurial activities in China, using a favorable change in U.S. trade policy as a plausibly exogenous shock. We find that domestic entrepreneurs in exposed industries benefit more from the shock in financially-developed areas and areas dominated by...

This paper evaluates the role of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the context of global value chains. Given the interconnectedness of trade and investment, preferential trade agreements not only contribute to participation and value capture by eliminating traditional trade barriers, they...