that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …

The literature has paid very little attention to a potential positive endogenous nexus between trade globalization and … shows that trade globalization dampens political liberalization, though political liberalization fosters trade globalization …

This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in … industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields …: financial market, product markets, labour markets and trade. After a short discussion of the link between globalization and …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …