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This paper investigates the spread of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis (ESDC) to different market capitalization segments across countries and regions. Specifically, it tests for capitalization-specific contagion across both crises and their phases by...
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globalization exacerbates failures in international capital markets and impinges upon capital flows and the pace and order of …. It also highlights how financial globalization was related to the East Asian crises. The main conclusion is that … intermediate non-conventional fundamentals, shifts in private agents' expectations and financial globalization were arguably the …
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The health of the world’s population - including those in the poorest countries - has improved more in the past 100 years than ever before. The improvement is largely a result of the development and spread of cheap, effective technologies (such as vaccines). Other factors, such as national...
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In its strongest statement yet on progressive tax reform, the UN has recently called on countries to introduce a global carbon tax and financial transaction tax (FTT). In my recent article entitled Global Taxation of Cross Border E-commerce Income (31 Virginia Tax Review 639 (Spring 2012)), I...
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This paper studies whether the advent of financial globalisation has contributed to increasing wealth inequality in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. I find that (i) positive changes in the benchmark measure of financial globalisation are associated with a positive change in the...
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Over the past decade, geopolitical developments - and the policy responses to these by major economies around the world - have challenged economic openness and the process of globalisation, with implications for the economic environment in which central banks operate. The return of war to Europe...
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This Article places recent Lat-Crit scholarship in an institutional and inter-disiplinary context. It serves not just as an indictment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agenda of structural adjustment and liberalization. It also questions the positioning of Lat-Crit scholars to remain...
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As the pace of globalization has intensified, lawyers and scholars continue to develop an appreciation for the many …
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This study examines the role of globalization on terrorism in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four …. Political globalisation, social globalisation and general globalization positively affect unclear terrorism. Social …
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