We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of...

Introduction -- Defining and measuring globalization (with Steven A. Altman) -- The depth of globalization -- Globalization in historical perspective (with Geoffrey G. Jones) -- The globalization of business -- The breadth of globalization and distance -- Distances at industry and company level...

Prologue : The missing legacy -- PART I: BECOMING HARRY DEXTER WHITE. 1. Who--really--was Harry White? -- 2. The education of Harry White -- 3. A brief academic career -- PART II: BECOMING A KEYNESIAN INTERNATIONALIST. 4. What next? Dr. White goes to Washington -- 5. Settling into Morgenthau's...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...