This dissertation focuses on issues related to economic globalization and its implications for the domestic economy. The first two chapters pertain to international financial integration, while the last chapter studies the impact of interprovincial migration in China as a result of...

Using foreign currency long-term sovereign rating data from 93 countries and for more than 30 years, panel data econometric analyses show non-monotonic relation between pro-cyclicality of government consumption and sovereign risk scores. That is, countries with limited access to foreign credits...

In theory, trade intensity should positively affect the quality of domestic institutions and governance; the higher the economic openness, the lower the corruption. In practice, however, the growth of economic openness has not been accompanied by the expected improvements in corruption for 34...