capital markets in the first era of financial globalization. To test whether the gold standard worked as a credible commitment …

globalization and their implications for welfare state spending: the 'downward harmonization', 'upward convergence', 'convergence … clubs' and 'globalization irrelevance' hypotheses. We provide evidence concerning these hypotheses by examining changes in …, therefore, may affect the way in which countries respond to globalization pressures. …

globalization context, the confrontation with risks, including the danger of deficiencies transmission and supporting the crises in …

of globalization and regionalization of the international economy Current and recognition of subtle practices in the neo … synthetic notion of "globalization fragmented"; b)a critical view on tools and temptations of protectionism covert …

The globalization process has generated an increase of the international competition, fact that influenced the …

Using the economic freedom index and the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, it is shown that the Scandinavian … and the so called liberal welfare states. The market economy and globalization hence do not pose threats to these welfare …

strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic actors and, to an increasing extent, to the process of globalization of … that the growing importance of China in the globalization of R&D is more than a ‘flash-in-the-pan’. On one hand, China is …