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Openness and inflation volatility: Cross-country evidence

Bowdler, Christopher; Malik, Adeel - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2005

Recent decades have seen a considerable expansion of global trade and a simultaneous decline in inflation volatility. This paper investigates whether greater openness to trade helps achieve inflation stability. Using panel data for a sample of developing and industrial countries over the period...

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ICT Revolution, Globalization and Informational Lock-in

Sanditov, Bulat - Vienna University of Economics and Business Research … - 2004

We examine a model of social learning in networks following the lines of Bala and Goyal (1998, 2001). As a model of agents’ behaviour we have chosen the model of informational cascades of Bikhchandani et al (1992). Similarly to Bala and Goyal we find that the higher the ’degree of...

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Domestic Employment Effects of Offshoring: Empirical Evidence from Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study empirically explores whether the propensity to offshore affects the total domestic employment at the firm level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are...

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Sijainti seuraa strategiaa: Kokonaiskuva suomalaisten monikansallisten globaalien karttojen muutoksista 2000-2005

Lovio, Raimo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

The paper summarizes the findings of a follow-up study on the globalization of the largest Finnish multinational … rest of their location changes. Thus, the current globalization process includes two parallel processes. The Finnish …

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Family Businesses and Globalization in Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

globalization with a representative sample of businesses in Finnish manufacturing and private services. FBs and non-FBs are not so …

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Globalisaatio Suomen vanhojen teollisuuspaikkakuntien kehityksen muovaajana - Tapaustutkimus Varkauden kaupungista

Lovio, Raimo; Jääskeläinen, Jari; Laurila, Juha; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

The paper summarizes the results of a follow-up study on the effects of globalization in an old industrial town in … recent years the effects of globalization have changed towards more negative direction. This is not because of foreign … closed. In addition, due to globalization pressure firms in Finland and Varkaus try to develop new high-tech products. For …

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Did Globalization Lead to Segmentation? Identifying Cross-Country Growth Regimes in the Long-Run

Vaio, Gianfranco Di; Enflo, Kerstin - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2009

Economic historians have stressed that income convergence was a key feature of the 'OECD-club' and that globalization … divergence. Therefore, history does not provide unambiguous evidence about globalization and convergence. …

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The German Motor Vehicle Industry: Costs and Crisis During the late 1980s and 1990s, Japanese expertise with their flexible and efficient motor vehicle manufacturing system posed a...

Truett, TINA M. Lila J.; Truett, TINA M. Dale B. - College of Business, University of Texas-San Antonio

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Modes, rythmes et perspectives d'internationalisation de l'économie et des entreprises polonaises

Dayan, Léo; Gorynia, Marian - In: Mondes en développement n° 145 (2009) 1, pp. 109-126

This paper identifies and clarifies modes and rhythms of the internationalization of Polish firms that make it feasible thanks to the position achieved by the Polish economy, coupled with its access to the EU. The internationalization trends of the Polish economy are at first located and then...

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L’écologisation de la politique agricole européenne. Verdissement ou refondation des systèmes agro-alimentaires ?

Deverre, Christian; Marie, Christine De Sainte - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 89 (2008) 4, pp. 83-104

This article addresses the process of growing integration of environmental concerns (referred to as “ecologisation”) in European agricultural policies, and suggests a framework for assessing its effects on agri-food systems: marginal adaptation of the industrial model or ecologically based...

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