Modern globalization (which includes free flows of trade and factors of production across frontiers, stable rates of …

Does trade openness systematically imply bigger governments, as proposed by Rodrik (1998)? This paper presents a novel … and more refined explanation for when and why international trade may enlarge the public sector. We propose that trade …) the country is democratic. The first condition satisfies the prior that open trade barriers indeed introduce uncertainty …

decades can explain increasing resistance to globalization in industrialized countries. In a traditional trade model of a …Based on empirical evidence from cross-country survey data, we argue that the surge of trade in tasks over the last … small open economy, we demonstrate that public education provides protection against losses from trade in goods and services …

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization … affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the … effects of proximity and regional trade agreements have increased over time. We also document substantial cross …

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries … stability, liberal trade policies, foreign direct investment inflows and domestic industrial capacity are very important in …

currencies, is affected by trade intensity, bilateral swap line arrangements, and has a regional bias. Further, it is possibly …