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Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change

Conconi, Paola; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We embed a simple incomplete-contracts model of organization design in a standard two-country perfectly-competitive trade model to examine how the liberalization of product and factor markets affects the ownership structure of firms. In our model, managers decide whether or not to integrate...

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Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

second-best tool. Globalization that increases labour mobility reduces governments' incentives to provide subsidized … education and increases private individuals' incentives for investment in their human capital. Globalization can improve welfare …

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Innovation and Competitive Pressure

Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

I analyse the effects of competition on R&D effort (in a non-tournament context) and obtain robust results that hold for a variety of market structures, including markets with and without barriers to entry and markets characterized by either price or quantity competition. The approach...

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International Trade, Security and Transnational Terrorism: Theory and Empirics

Mirza, Daniel; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, we offer a general analytical framework to illustrate the complex two-way interactions between trade and transnational terrorism. We then survey the recent economic literature in light of this framework by pointing to the importance in empirical studies a) to control appropriately...

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Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model

Brun, Jean-François; Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

poor countries may have been marginalized by the current wave of globalization. …

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Globalization, Roundaboutness and Relative Wages

Francois, Joseph; Grier, Kevin Blaine; Nelson, Douglas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North trade and linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Etiher-type division of labor model. Using this model we identify a formal relationship between international...

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The Effect of Trade with Low-Income Countries on U.S. Industry

Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

When labor abundant nations grow, their exports increase more in labor intensive than in capital intensive sectors. We utilize this difference in how exports are affected by growth to identify the causal effect of trade with low-income countries (LICs) on U.S. industry. Our framework relates...

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Openness, Financial Markets, and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

globalization trends where financial market development can more easily substitute for it. …

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Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Artis, Michael J; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

separate periods, those of the first globalization wave (1870 to 1914), the period of the “bloc economy” (1915 to 1959) and for … the period of the second globalization (1960-2001). Cluster analysis is applied and the McNemar test is used to test for … that features some well-defined sub-global clusters, where the second globalization period does not, the first …

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Globalization and Democracy

Hamilton, Carl B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …

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