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Globalization and Emissions in Europe
Naughton, Helen Tammela - 2014
Europe from 1980-2000 in the framework of one empirical model. The spatial autoregressive regression model is estimated using …
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Huth & Co.'s credit strategies : a global merchant-banker’s risk management, c. 1810 - 1850
Llorca-Jaña, Manuel - In: Estudios de economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 17-43
Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870 - 1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a … trade operations could not have taken place. Despite the important extant literature on merchant-banking, we knew little …
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Huth & Co.'s Credit Strategies : A Global Merchant-Banker's Risk Management, c. 1810-1850
Llorca‐Jaña, Manuel - 2015
Napoleonic Wars and before first globalization c. 1870-1913 has long been recognised. Merchant-bankers in particular played a … trade operations could not have taken place. Despite the important extant literature on merchant-banking, we knew little … particular for merchant- bankers who had diversified both geographically and by products. This paper is concerned with the risk …
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Italy and the First Age of Globalization, 1861-1940
James, Harold; O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2013
The paper presents trade policy as in line with that of other continental European powers, with a move to moderate levels of tariff protection for politically sensitive sectors such as steel and textiles and clothing, but also in agriculture, with levels of protection falling slightly before the...
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Spatial inequality in prices and wages : town-level evidence from the First Globalisation
Nikolić, Stefan - 2023
This article leverages uniquely abundant town-level data to examine spatial inequality in prices and wages during the First Globalisation. I build a new dataset on prices of traded and household goods, and wages of skilled and unskilled workers for a panel of 42 towns in Serbia, in the period...
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Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....
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How does future tourism affect today's depletion of natural resources in a globalized world?
Hübler, Michael - 2014 - November 2014
This paper sets up a two-period, two-sector trade model of a developing country which is abundant in a natural resource but scarce in industrial goods. It shows that lower future travel costs, rising demand for tourism and higher preferences for the environment slow down today’s depletion of...
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What accounts for the growth of carbon dioxide emissions in advanced and emerging economies? : the role of consumption, technology, and global supply chain trade
Ferrarini, Benno; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2015
Climate policy pledges and negotiations involve commitments about the reduction of emissions within national borders. However, the rise of global value chains has changed the nature of production and international trade, blurring the attribution of ultimate responsibility for emissions. This...
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Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? : evidence from firm level data
Batrakova, Svetlana; Davies, Ronald B. - 2010 - This Version: March 2010
One of the greatest concerns over globalisation is its impact on the environment. This paper contributes to this debate by analysing the consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm's energy consumption. We show both theoretically and empirically that for low fuel intensity firms exporting...
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Green and brown? : globalization and the environment
Boyce, James K. - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...
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