The historical evolution of the corporate tax burden in the OECD nations is studied, beginning with an assessment of alternative measures of the burden. Descriptive analysis of these time series reveals no evidence of a competitive “race to the bottom” in capital taxation, and little evidence of even a harmonization of the tax burden. These conclusions for the OECD and Europe as a whole are con...

The global nature of the threat posed by new and reemerging infectious diseases will require international cooperation in identifying, controlling, and preventing these diseases. Because of this need for international cooperation, international law will certainly play a role in the global strategy for the control of emerging diseases. Recognizing this fact, the World Health Organization has alr...

n engl j med 360;8 nejm.org february 19, 2009 816 Economic globalization is an important development of the past half century. Proponents of globalization highlight the benefits of greater economic growth and prosperity; critics point to the exacerbation of economic disparities and the exploitation of workers, particularly in developing (i.e., lowand middle-income) countries.1,2 Pharmaceutical ...

This paper is based on a panel discussion at the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems in Barcelona. Three panellists responded to a set of questions on the meaning of the term globalization to them, and the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The panellists also highlighted the importance of local diversity in understanding glob...

SUMMARY Globalization has been an established term academically for two decades; research within this field has expanded from globalization of markets to globalization of culture, trade, finance, of almost anything, in accordance with the increasing pace of globalization in today's ever-more interconnected world. Previous global strategy research has focused on companies based in developed econ...

1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

he Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute cosponsored a conference on “International Linkages in a Globalized World and Implications for Monetary Policy” with the School of International Business Administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE) and Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law. The event was held at SHUFE on June 21–22. The theme was the impact of globalizati...

a r t i c l e i n f o Global slack hypothesis Inflation expectations Openness Small open economy DSGE model Korea This paper studies the implications of globalization for the dynamics of macroeconomic variables over the business cycle for a small open trade-dependent economy, such as South Korea. We study the impact of globalization through the lens of a structural model. Globalization is model...

Globalization is much more than an economic phenomenon and has non-economic consequences (Fischer, 2003). Studies on globalization follow two main lines [Li, Pang and Ng (2007)]. While most proglobalization advocates (for example, Feldstein 2000) examine the impact of external or openness factors, anti-globalization advocates focus on economic sectors that have lost out in the process of global...

Alternative theoretical perspectives have been presented to explain internationally effective factors affecting immigration. For example, the orthodox explanation of migration is based on the concept of wage differentials as an important factor of international immigration. The world system approach declines to interpret theoretically international migration as a phenomenon between independent ...