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Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
lower bound estimate, because Germans are rather globalization-friendly and we are looking at quality papers, not tabloids. …
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Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content
Anderson, Simon P; Gans, Joshua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Content providers rely on advertisers to pay for content. TiVo, remote controls, and pop-up ad blockers are examples of ad-avoidance technologies that allow consumers to view content without ads, and thereby siphon off the content without paying the ‘price.’ We examine the content...
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Superstars and the Long Tail: The impact of technology on market structure in media industries
Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Technological change is transforming creative media industries. Digitisation lowers recording, storage, reproduction and distribution costs, while computer-based editing facilitates higher quality and special effects. With electronic distribution a vast range of content can be made available to...
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Make Trade not War?
Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between trade and war. We show that the intuition that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and leaders take into account the costs of war. When war can...
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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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US Special Safeguard on Imports of Tires from China: Imposing Pain for Little Gain
Charnovitz, Steve; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in the WTO. The case marked the first WTO dispute in...
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Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy
Coeurdacier, Nicolas; Guibaud, Stéphane; Jin, Keyu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In a period of rapid integration and accelerated growth in emerging markets, three striking trends have been (1) a divergence in the private saving rates of emerging markets and advanced economies, (2) large net capital outflows from emerging markets, and (3) a sustained decline in the world...
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents two facets and in theory has …-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country’s own tariff … globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing. At the same time …
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Who Needs the Nation State?
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The design of institutions is shaped by a fundamental trade-off. On the one hand, relationships and heterogeneity push governance down. On the other, the scale and scope benefits of market integration push governance up. A corner solution is rarely optimal. An intermediate outcome, a world...
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Globalization, Credence Goods and International Civil Society
Krautheim, Sebastian; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth in global value chains, as well as the … potential NGO emergence allows firms to capture gains from globalization, which would otherwise be unattainable. We show that …
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