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Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

and opportunities and minimize the risks linked to globalization. Numerous forces are coalescing in order to provoke the …

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Credit constraints and growth in a global economy

Jin, Keyu; Guibaud, Stéphane; Coeurdacier, Nicolas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that in an open-economy OLG model, the interaction between growth diﬀerentials and household credit constraints, more severe in fast-growing countries, can explain three prominent global trends: a divergence in private saving rates between advanced and emerging economies, large net...

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Mercados de trabalho e hibridização: uniformidade e diferenças entre França e Brasil

Carleial, Liana; Azaïs, Christian - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

analysis of the nature of globalization; in the second, we discuss the specificity of the job market as well as the social and …

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The Great Recession: on the Ineffectiveness of Domestic Adjustment Policies and the Need of Multilateral Arrangements

Rojas, Jorge - Departamento de Economía, Pontificia Universidad … - 2014

The Great Recession is the manifestation of some fundamental problems in the real sector of the global economy, related basically to the loss of competitiveness of the U.S. and other central economies reflected in continuous external disequilibria in the form of parallel current account deficits...

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Globalization: New Approaches

PERPELEA, Mircea; DUTA, Alia; PERPELEA, Sebastian - In: Finante - provocarile viitorului (Finance - Challenges … 1 (2014) 16, pp. 50-59

It is possible an end of globalization? Is this the way to the end of globalization? It is difficult to predict. What …

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Efects of production relocation on human resources

Catalina, Bonciu; Cristian, Sima; Daniel, Fistung - In: Manager Journal 13 (2011) 1, pp. 74-89

Extensively discussed and analyzed (many times controversial), globalization is accepted as an objective phenomenon, by … its size and unrivalled evolution in the world history. Both globalization and regionalization have emerged and developed … globalization effect). The international trade can significantly contribute to the growth of a nation, and on its turn, being …

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Diffusion of Containerization

Rua, Gisela - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

This paper uses a newly constructed, comprehensive dataset to investigate the diffusion of containerization. The data show that country adoption is exceptionally fast while firm usage increases more slowly. To guide my empirical investigation, I build a multi-country trade model with endogenous...

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The contested terrain of sport diplomacy in a globalizing world

Jackson, Steven J. - In: International Area Studies Review 16 (2013) 3, pp. 274-284

Sport continues to occupy a rather ambiguous position within the context of politics, foreign policy and diplomatic relations. While one can identify a long list of cases where sport has been credited with diverting conflict, contributing to peace negotiations and helping develop better cultural...

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Quality of life and international standardization in the field of sustainable development of communities

Avanesov, Evgeny - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Public authorities, international organizations and non-profit associations are nowadays working on identifying and solving the problems of various communities (i.e., towns, villages and other administrative-territorial units) through the development of specialized programs. Sustainable...

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SHADOW BANKING - A Geographical Interpretation

Battisti, Gianfranco - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Basically, shadow banking is an original kind of business organization, or better a set of institutions and markets, finalized to disinvest fixed assets and convey them to the financial markets. Nowadays, tackling the subject means penetrating the hard core of financialization. Shadow banking...

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