for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

, protectionism, and globalization. We find that preferences for open-market trade policies cannot be sufficiently explained by …-suited predictors for the substantial cross-regional variation in the support for globalization. Country specific narratives are …

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …-enhancing potential. -- migration ; international trade ; capital movements ; capital formation ; globalization …