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This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …
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. There are some indications of globalization in retreat, international trade growth slowing down and a transition from … various trends around global economic integration and pushing towards de-globalization is extremely difficult. This paper aims …
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We examine the real and financial integration of East Asian economies, comparing the degree of real versus financial integration, the degree of global versus regional integration, and the extent of integration before versus after the 1997/98 financial crisis in East Asian economies. We analyze...
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China has been provoked into speeding renminbi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial markets in RMB, the Chinese authorities are essentially trapped into maintaining exchange controls-reinforced by financial repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an...
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In the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914), global capital market integration led to substantial net … capital movements from rich to poor economies. The historical experience stands in contrast to the contemporary globalization … movements. -- capital market integration ; financial globalization ; economic history …
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Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographic isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that pre-historic geographical isolation has been beneficial to...
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history of the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914) for new insights. Based on a newly compiled data set, we test …, but no longer does so today. Unlike its historical predecessor, the current wave of financial globalization has not …
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How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? This paper investigates this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk -- a...
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The global economy of the past century was dominated by the United States and Western Europe. When they sneezed, the old joke goes, the rest of the world caught a cold. But that dominance is now being challenged by the rise of rapidly growing emerging market economies. And the shift is changing...
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integration for industrial countries, especially during the globalization period. However, developing countries do not show any …
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