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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed more to COVID-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, globalization …
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. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and longer-distance trade between countries contribute to this usage increase …
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Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global … economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical … world. The world is not flat, and the developing world certainly is not. Still, mega-cities tend to become too big. Their …
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. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and longer-distance trade between countries contribute to this usage increase …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
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As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
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We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the...
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This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that emigration to countries with low (high) levels of...
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Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990’s to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...
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We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A … gaining more than North post-2000, thus lowering real income inequality in the world. …
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