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Leaky Bucket in the Real World : Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data

Pirttila, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021

Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....

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Local Global Watchdogs : Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism

Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021

feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …

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Think Global, Act Local! A Mechanism for Global Commons and Mobile Firms

Ahlvik, Lassi - 2019

It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...

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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis

Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...

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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains

Sampson, Thomas - 2022

Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...

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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis

van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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The KOF Globalisation Index - Revisited

Gygli, Savina - 2019

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic … dimension of globalization and use time-varying weighting of the variables. The new index is based on 43 instead of 23 variables …

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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...

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Awards as signals

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010

Awards are widespread in all countries and are prevalent both in the public sphere and in the private sector. This paper argues, and empirically supports, that awards serve public functions and economists should take them seriously. Using a unique cross-country data set, we suggest that awards...

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