Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

Global companies are strongly pressed by the need to simultaneously and equally efficiently manage globally, since the whole world for them is a single market, and locally, due to the fact that the world market makes a number of different and poorly connected markets. The global market today is...

Global companies are strongly pressed by the need to simultaneously and equally efficiently manage globally, since the whole world for them is a single market, and locally, due to the fact that the world market makes a number of different and poorly connected markets. The global market today is...

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

The globalization of the economic activity is profoundly changing long established concepts, customs and ways of doing business all around the globe. One of those concepts is the currency. The globalization and the Internet, really two facets of the same phenomenon, people hugely removed in...

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

This paper studies the effect of trade facilitation on vertical firm structure using plant-level data from Switzerland. Based on the Business Census and the Input-Output table, we first calculate a binary measure of vertical integration for all plants registered in Switzerland. We then estimate...