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Neoliberalism, the Global Crisis, and the Ways Out

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2011) 3, pp. 153-166

Due to the interdependence of the contemporary world economy, the great American crisis of 2008-2010 rapidly has become the global crisis. However, it is not just another, only larger than before crisis. It is a fundamental crisis of the capitalist market economy based on neoliberalism....

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The Twin Effects of Globalization. Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2011) 1, pp. 223-251

uncertainty and the benefits of skill upgrading associated with globalization are twin to each other. We provide empirical …

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The US Political Brawl over the Causes of the Crisis. Comments and Additions

Szegö, Giorgio - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2011) 3, pp. 229-252

The Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States was released on January 27th, 2011. The strong political differences within the commission prevented the draft of a shared report. In addition to the majority report, two...

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Entry Costs & Increasing Trade

Lincoln, William F.; McCallum, Andrew H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose from 21% in 1987 to 39% in 2006. It has been suggested that similar trends in other countries may have been caused by declining costs of entering foreign markets. Our study tests...

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Corporate Obligations under the Right to a Healthy Living Environment

Cernic, Jernej Letnar - In: DANUBE: Law and Economics Review (2012) 3, pp. 21-41

In recent decades, globalisation has stirred up a number of positive and negative developments in national and international environments. An important feature of globalisation is the rise of the economic, social, cultural and political power of corporations. While corporate activities may...

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Co-movements of Shanghai and New York stock prices by time-varying regressions

Chow, Gregory C.; Liu, Changjiang; Niu, Linlin - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 39 (2011) 4, pp. 577-583

We use time-varying regression to model the relationship between returns in the Shanghai and New York stock markets, with possible inclusion of lagged returns. The parameters of the regressions reveal that the effect of current stock return of New York on Shanghai steadily increases after the...

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Adapting of Economic Development to Climate Change

Zajmi, Sandra - In: Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 1 (2012) 2, pp. 47-60

Climate change is the most complex challenge that humankind has had to face in recent times. With each successive generation, redressing the imbalance will be more difficult. Diverse and complex requirements of maintaining life on Earth, collectively called the environment, can be caused both by...

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Globalization and terrorism

Zimmermann, Ekkart - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) S1, pp. 152-152

This paper has multiple objectives. I set out linkages of a causal model to portray how globalization influences … international terrorism. The paper and conclusions present perspectives on developments of terrorism in the context of globalization …

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Globalization and wage inequality: Evidence from urban China

Han, Jun; Liu, Runjuan; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of International Economics 87 (2012) 2, pp. 288-297

This paper examines the impact of globalization on wage inequality using Chinese Urban Household Survey data from 1988 … World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, we analyze whether regions more exposed to globalization experienced larger changes …

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Political cycles under external economic constraints: Evidence from Cyprus

Efthyvoulou, Georgios - In: Journal of Economics and Business 63 (2011) 6, pp. 638-662

1978–2006, and explores their conditionality upon external economic constraints, such as globalization and European … these effects seem to decrease as globalization progresses, and to disappear in the run-up to EMU. This implies that, while … partisan cycles can emerge under a certain domestic political setting, the sensitivity of an economy to globalization pressures …

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