The average adult human brain weighs around 3 lbs. and every day the average person has around 50,000-70,000 thoughts that between 70% to 80% of those are negative so around 40,000 to 50,000. Negative thoughts in a day that need to be managing and filtering not small task for any person. We...

This paper examines the determinants of individual intentions to migrate abroad by using a recent global survey and by exploiting both within and cross-country variation in standard migration drivers. The sample includes more than 1 million individuals, drawn as representative samples from 159...

This chapter for the Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization studies the unique challenges of property rights in an era of global finance. It first defines the fundamental features of property, trying to bridge the gap that often exists between lawyers and economists in conceptualizing this...

The paper discusses the question if the global economy already entered a phase of a global recession. This is based on the IMF definition that a global recession occurs if global real GDP growth falls below 3%. Taking actual GDP numbers for the Chinese economy published by the Conference Board...

This paper examines the current trends in multinational organizational leadership. I review historical trends in organizational leadership styles and ethical decision-making. Then, I examine the successes of American organizations located in Asia to the failures of Chinese companies in the same...

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

The objective of this paper is therefore, to bring to light the pertinent contemporary issues such as the opportunities and scope for the indigenous people of the region in this era of globalisation and the need to understand the importance of intellectual property rights in this present complex...

Globalization changes the role and functions of the border and creates new forms of regional cooperation and development, arising from the need to generate development opportunities and to enhance international competitiveness of states in the international interconnected frame of the present....

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard input-output table-based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained...

This presentation examines changes in global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and stocks in the past quarter of century (1991–2016) for countries and territories for which data are available. It also asks how those changes affect our way of explaining FDI and other activities of...