of the World (ROW) is developed to quantify capital controls and evaluate their impact on the world economy. We find … these controls had large effects. Counterfactual analysis show world output would have been 0:5 percent higher had there …

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

Throughout the world, population aging is a major challenge that will continue well into the 21st century. While the …-country overlapping generations model and combine it with long-term demographic projections for several world regions over a 50 year … rest of the world will be substantial. Closed-economy models of pension reform are likely to miss quantitatively important …

the world. In this paper, we show that a small set of fundamentals--shifts in relative output levels, the stock of public …

We examine the evidence of contagion during the pre World War I era and the interwar and contrast our findings with the …